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Posted May 8, 2013; 01:30 p.m. by John Sullivan, Office of Engineering Using 3-D printing tools, scientists at Princeton University have created a functional ear that can "hear" radio frequencies far beyond the range of normal human capability.

Part classroom, part carnival, Design & Project Fair showcases diversity of creative work at SEAS Jamie Song '13 ( right ) strummed the invisible strings of a laser harp she designed with Doug Bright '13 ( left ) and their classmate Thomas Esch ( not pictured ).

Mass Observation calls for public to take part in day diary archive project The Mass Observation Archive is calling on individuals throughout the UK to chart their opinions, feelings, and experiences in a one-day electronic diary.

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Engineering Professor Develops New High-Stress Steel for Industry, Aerospace Sectors-Carnegie Mellon News - Carnegie Mellon University : Chriss Swaney / 412-268-5776 / swaney [a] andrew.cmu (p) edu PITTSBURGH—Warren M. Garrison Jr.

In culmination of a decade's work, RoboBees achieve vertical takeoff, hovering, and steering : Caroline Perry , (617) 496-1351 In the very early hours of the morning, in a Harvard robotics laboratory last summer, an insect took flight.

30 Apr 2013 A new transistor capable of revolutionising technologies for medical imaging and security screening has been developed by graphene researchers from the Universities of Manchester and Nottingham.

The robots came in all shapes and sizes to crawl, swim and fly at University of Toronto's Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) and York University. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council held its Canadian Field Robotics Network (NCFRN) field trials at U of'T and York April 17-23. The event featured talks and presentations, workshops, networking events and opportunities for collaborative fieldwork and demonstrations.

A new transistor capable of revolutionising technologies for medical imaging and security screening has been developed by graphene researchers from the Universities of Nottingham and Manchester.

The University of Sheffield has overtaken the University of Cambridge for engineering research income, confirming the institution as a world-leader in the field.

The School of Civil Engineering at the University of Birmingham is pioneering a new initiative to take bridge construction out to local schools and sixth forms to engage young people in the discipline.

Last month the House of Commons hosted a group of early career researchers, including 16 from Imperial, who presented their science to politicians.

£1.3m of funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) will be used to buy a new molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system for The University of Nottingham.

The University of Nottingham has launched a unique training programme which will enable Chinese students to become the integrated circuit (IC) designers of the future.

Federico Capasso , Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has been selected to receive the 2013 SPIE Gold Medal.

Posted under: Engineering , Research , Science , Technology , UW and the Community Which is better for electrical storage: A potato, a lemon, an AA battery or a car battery?

Whether studying climate change, seeking cleaner energy or influencing green policy, UAlberta researchers act like it's always April 22.

: Caroline Perry , (617) 496-1351 A Harvard-led team of researchers has created a new type of nanoscale device that converts an optical signal into waves that travel along a metal surface.

An article, World-changing technology being pioneered in Bristol , about pioneering research into energy and CO2 reduction via improved power amplifier efficiency in the cellular and broadcast industr

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. When a team of University of Illinois engineers set out to grow nanowires of a compound semiconductor on top of a sheet of graphene, they did not expect to discover a new paradigm of epitaxy.

Opening the door to more sophisticated investigation of sperm locomotion and biophysics, researchers from UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have identified previously unobserved swimming patterns in human and horse sperm cells.

Inexpensive tactile sensing technology builds on tiny barometer chips that are widely available : Caroline Perry , (617) 496-1351 An 8x5 tactile array provides gram-level sensitivity in hardware created from MEMS barometers and standard manufacturing processes.

MIT engineers find that in the earliest stages of arthritis, high-impact exercise may worsen cartilage damage. Osteoarthritis, which affects at least 20 percent of adults in the United States, leads to deterioration of cartilage, the rubbery tissue that prevents bones from rubbing together. By studying the molecular properties of cartilage, MIT engineers have now discovered how the earliest stages of arthritis make the tissue more susceptible to damage from physical activities such as running or jumping.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Though they be but little, they are fierce.

A Stanford team has designed an entirely new form of cooling panel that works even when the sun is shining.

The basement lab near the University of Washington campus is, literally, buzzing. High-voltage machines produce energy that will soon run through cables snaking along the seafloor.

Taking a significant step toward improving the power delivery of systems ranging from urban electrical grids to regenerative braking in hybrid vehicles, researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School o

He's one of the few people in the world to master the art of astronomy at -70C. Keith Vanderlinde spent 11 months working on-site with the South Pole Telescope in Antarctica before joining U of T's Dunlap Institute and Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics a few years later.

ANN ARBOR-The explosive popularity of wireless devices-from WiFi laptops to Bluetooth headsets to ZigBee sensor nodes-is increasingly clogging the airwaves, resulting in dropped calls, wasted bandwidth and botched connections.

Researchers at the University of Leeds are using the feet of tree frogs as a model for a tiny robot designed to crawl inside patients' bodies during keyhole surgery. The tiny device is one of a growing stable of bio-inspired robots being built in the University’s School of Mechanical Engineering and featured on the BBC’s The One Show last night.

An innovative ventilation program designed by University of Sydney advanced engineering students is being trialled this week in Vietnam.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. A new class of tiny, injectable LEDs is illuminating the deep mysteries of the brain. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University in St. Louis developed ultrathin, flexible optoelectronic devices - including LEDs the size of individual neurons - that are lighting the way for neuroscientists in the field of optogenetics and beyond.

Peter Kohl heads up the Cardiac Biophysics and Systems Biology group at Imperial which tackles heart science issues at various scales.

ANN ARBOR-In a development that could make the advanced form of secure known as quantum cryptography more practical, University of Michigan researchers have demonstrated a simpler, more efficient single-photon emitter that can be made using traditional semiconductor processing techniques. Single-photon emitters release one particle of light, or photon, at a time, as opposed to devices like lasers that release a stream of them.

Advances in tattoo sensors for health monitoring, on-chip optical networking, low-cost cancer diagnostics, video games designed to teach computer programming, new materials for protecting soldiers from blasts, and energy-efficient high-wire robots.

Example of a flexible-circuit film displayed by a member of Professor Tom Jackson's Electronics Research Group on Penn State's University Park campus.

A decade ago, spurred by a question for a fifth-grade science project, University of Washington physicist John Cramer devised an audio recreation of the Big Bang that started our universe nearly 14 billion years ago.

Themistoklis Prodromakis is a research fellow at the Centre for Bio-inspired Technology and is developing brain-inspired electronics using memristors What are memristors?

A specially-adapted 'tactile helmet', developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield, could provide fire-fighters operating in challenging conditions with vital clues about their surroundings.

Xylan is a polysaccharide composed of pentoses - five carbon sugars - that represents a double-edged sword for advanced biofuels.

Robert J. Schoelkopf, recently appointed as Sterling Professor of Applied Physics and Physics, focuses his research on the development of superconducting devices for quantum information processing, which might eventually lead to revolutionary advances in computing.

Aerospace engineering senior Andre Coleman Jr. serves as the thermal subsystems lead for the Penn State OSIRIS nanosatellite mission, slated to be launched by NASA between 2014 and 2016.

ANN ARBOR-Wouldn't it be convenient if you could reverse the rusting of your car by shining a bright light on it?

Gallium nitride has been described as "the most important semiconductor since silicon" and is used in energy-saving LED lighting.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. The union of theory and practice makes broadband, low-loss optical devices practical, which is why two groups of Penn State engineers collaborated to design optical metamaterials that have custom applications that are easily manufactured.

Swarms of robots acting together to carry out jobs could provide new opportunities for humans to harness the power of machines. Researchers in the Sheffield Centre for Robotics, jointly established by the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University, have been working to program a group of 40 robots, and say the ability to control robot swarms could prove hugely beneficial in a range of contexts, from military to medical.