Engineers at the University of Illinois have found a way to redirect misfit light waves to reduce energy loss during optical data transmission. In…
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Doctoral student studing engineering receives NSF fellowship to study microelectronics
Riccardo Torsi, a doctoral student studying materials science and engineering in Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, received a 2019 National Science…
Electric car research boosted by cobalt-free battery
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Texas engineer wins 2019 Presidential Early Career award
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If you were an engineer, what would you do?
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Student from Cornell University knows how to keep hardware fast and furious
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Stanford researchers study birds to improve how robots land
Birds can perch on a wide variety of surfaces, thick or thin, rough or slick. But can they find stable footing if a branch…
What is cache memory
This post covers the topic of three types of cache memory, its structure and functions. Cache memory is a set of memory locations that…
Surrey University spin-out GnoSys Global Ltd acquired by Kinectrics
University of Surrey spin-out GnoSys Global Ltd, a privately-owned, industrial innovation accelerator with a history of leading large R&D projects and exploiting intellectual property…