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University of Washington It should be just as easy to use a robotic arm as it is to use your own hand.

Thin, soft stick-on patches that stretch and move with the skin incorporate commercial, off-the-shelf chip-based electronics for sophisticated wireless health monitoring.

Imperial's postgraduate training received a further boost on Friday, when the UK Chancellor announced further Centres for Doctoral Training.

ANN ARBOR-PsiKick, an ultra-low-power wireless sensor company co-founded by a University of Michigan professor, has completed Series A, or first-round, funding.

A new £7 million centre at the University of Leeds will lead UK research in manufacturing advanced chemical products.

In a dark, windy room on the top floor of Engineering Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, racks of computers are processing information for a college that relies, like all technical fields, on massive computing power.

Imperial researcher Dr Claire Donoghue was awarded a silver medal at the national SET for Britain competition held at Parliament this week.

o Staff numbers hit 7,000 for the first time o Academic appointments increase, with staff recruited from fellow world-leading institutions o Major investment to create new jobs and secure future grow

Researchers invent a process to "dope" carbon filaments with an additive to improve their electronic performance, paving the way for digital devices that bend. Engineers would love to create flexible electronic devices, such as e-readers that could be folded to fit into a pocket. One approach involves designing circuits based on electronic fibers, known as carbon nanotubes (CNTs), instead of rigid silicon chips.

ANN ARBOR-The first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum has the potential to put heat vision technology into a lens.

Among the taxidermal specimens in Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, past centuries-old fur coats, arises a flicker of brilliant blue.

A new robotic fish can change direction almost as rapidly as a real fish. Soft robots - which don't just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels - have become a sufficiently popular research topic that they now have their own journal, Soft Robotics .

12 Mar 2014 Manchester Central MP Lucy Powell has visited The University of Manchester to learn more about wonder material graphene.

A spectacular festival which puts the weird and wonderful world of science and engineering in the spotlight, led by the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University together with the city's museums, kicks off this week (Friday 14 March 2014).

Imagine that you are in a meeting with coworkers or at a gathering of friends. You pull out your cell phone to show a presentation or a video on YouTube.

University of Washington Most modern electronics, from flat-screen TVs and smartphones to wearable technologies and computer monitors, use tiny light-emitting diodes, or LEDs.

The influence of popular culture on how children perceive a career in engineering and computer science cannot be underestimated, the University's Faculty Director of Women in Engineering has warned.

A research team from Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley appeared on Capitol Hill Thursday (Feb. 27) to show off their innovation in energy efficiency: a backpack-mounted system for quickly mapping energy use throughout a building and identifying ways to reduce it.

To mark National Apprenticeship Week 2014, the AMRC Training Centre invited senior managers from local manufacturing employers - all of whom currently have apprentices at the Training Centre - to go back to the floor and spend a day as an apprentice.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. A new Center for Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics, supported by the National Science Foundation and co-located at Penn State and North Carolina State University, will build on and expand the research capabilities of Penn State's long-running Center for Dielectrics Studies.

Humanoid robots are not just the stuff of science fiction: these computing devices are likely to be walking around our streets in the next decade.

Inaugural Dean for Research Innovation Funds inspire bold directions Posted March 4, 2014; 12:00 p.m. by Catherine Zandonella, Office of the Dean for Research A new initiative to encour

A new material could open the door to a new kind of electronics: researchers at the Vienna University of Technology have created a stable two-dimensional electron gas in strontium titanate.

When the sun sets on a remote desert outpost and solar panels shut down, what energy source will provide power through the night? A battery, perhaps, or an old diesel generator? Perhaps something strange and new.

University of Washington Mute the song playing on your smartphone in your pocket by flicking your index finger in the air, or pause your "This American Life” podcast with a small wave of the hand.

Growing marine algae to solve society's food, energy and climate change problems and a revolutionary tool to track marine fish populations are two topics Cornell oceanographer Charles Greene will discuss during presentations at the Ocean Sciences Meeting, Feb.

A multi-university team of engineers has developed what could be a promising solution for charging smartphone batteries on the go - without the need for an electrical cord.

A new laser developed by a research group at Caltech holds the potential to increase by orders of magnitude the rate of data transmission in the optical-fiber network-the backbone of the Internet.

Cleverer management of the local memory banks known as 'caches' could improve computer chips' performance while reducing their energy consumption.

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Metin Sitti Develops System for Replicating How Geckos Keep Webbed Feet Sticky and Clean-Carnegie Mellon News - Carnegie Mellon University CMU Researchers Say Synthetic Gecko-Adhesive Has Implications in Variety of Industries : Chriss Swaney / 412-268-5776 / swaney [a] andrew.cmu (p) edu PITTSBURGH—Geckos are wizards at sticking to any kind of hard surface repeatedly.

A new bioprinting method developed at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University creates intricately patterned, three-dimensional tissue constructs with multiple types of cells and tiny blood vessels.

Bitcoin is a stateless, digital currency that allows people to make transactions with no middlemen - no banks, no transaction fees and no governments.

To help people suffering paralysis from injury, stroke or disease, scientists have invented brain-machine interfaces that record electrical signals of neurons in the brain and translate them to movement. Usually, that means the neural signals direct a device, like a robotic arm.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Three University of Illinois professors have been selected to receive 2014 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

The promise and perils of 3-D printing, and particularly the printing of electronics and other active, integrated systems, was the topic of a Feb.

University of Leeds researchers have taken the lead in the race to build the world's most powerful terahertz laser chip. A paper in the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) journal Electronics Letters reports that the Leeds team has exceeded a 1 Watt output power from a quantum cascade terahertz laser.

A spin-out company from the University of Leeds is set to transform industry's ability to electronically monitor and interact with extreme environments.

On the plains of Namibia, millions of tiny termites are building a mound of soil-an 8-foot-tall "lung" for their underground nest.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Recent research from the Penn State Smeal College of Business finds that women's expertise may be underutilized in science and engineering teams, leading to teams performing at less than optimal levels of productivity.