To meet the growing demand for metal in the U.S. military—estimated at 750 million tons annually for uses ranging from ship repairs to tank construction—the U.S. Army Research Laboratory is investing millions over five years in advanced manufacturing research.
A University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering team, led by Eric Markvicka and graduate students Ethan Krings and Patrick McManigal, has advanced the development of soft robotics and wearable systems that mimic the self-healing properties of human and plant skin.
detrimental to electronic performance—can actually enhance device efficiency by leveraging quantum properties. This discovery challenges decades of conventional thinking and paves the way for a new generation of ultra-low-power spintronic devices, which utilize the electron’s spin in addition to its charge to process and store data, offering a promising alternative to traditional electronics.
A team of international researchers have discovered a novel photothermal coherence tomography technique—frequency-multiplexed photothermal correlation tomography (FM-PCT)—that brings infrared thermography (IRT) from limited 2D imaging to 3D tomography.
NASA has tapped a lunar rover built at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, to advance our understanding of water on the moon as it autonomously explores near the lunar south pole. MoonRanger will be among the payloads aboard a 2029 mission to the moon. The rover will carry a neutron spectrometer to study the lunar soil for traces of hydrogen, a good indicator of the presence of water, and demonstrate new levels of autonomous navigation on the moon.
