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Elon Musk e-mailed Twitter TWTR-N staff on Friday asking that any employees who write software code report to the 10th floor of the office in San Francisco early afternoon, according to an e-mail reviewed by Reuters.The billionaire said in a follow-up e-mail, “If possible, I would appreciate it if you could fly to SF to…
A team of University of Minnesota Twin Cities scientists and engineers has developed a first-of-its-kind, plant-inspired process that enables synthetic material growth. The new approach will allow researchers to build better soft robots that can navigate hard-to-reach places, complicated terrain and, potentially, areas within the human body. The research was funded by the U.S. National…
The fascination with bird flight is centuries old, but exactly how birds can be so agile in the air has remained mysterious. A new study, partly supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, uses modeling and aerodynamics to describe how gulls can change the shape…
Engineers at Columbia University working on a project enabled by the National Artificial Intelligence Institute in Dynamic Systems and three separate grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation have built a robot that learns from itself instead of its environment. The self-aware robot learned a model of its body – something humans do as infants…
In a nutshell: It has long been known that electromagnetic fields (EMF) can do some wonky things to electronic devices. Recently, scientists have attempted to determine whether they can manipulate an EMF in such as way as to make a gadget do what they want. They were successful. Researchers from the University of Florida and…
Chemical engineers at Rice University have improved their design for a light-powered catalyst that rapidly breaks down PFOA, or perfluorooctanoic acid, one of the world’s most problematic “forever chemical” pollutants. These pollutants aren’t easily degraded and tend to linger in the environment. Mounting evidence suggests PFOA is harmful to human health. Michael Wong and colleagues…
August 11, 2022 8:20 AM Image Credit: Jay Yuno // Getty Images Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here. Past industry surveys have shown that most data professionals struggle with poor data quality, despite the amount of time and resources invested…
MIT engineers design new surface treatments that make water boil more efficiently.New surface treatments could save energy for systems used in many industries.At the heart of a wide range of industrial processes, including most electricity generating plants, many chemical production systems, and even cooling systems for electronics, is an energy-intensive step with the boiling of…
Using machine learning along with data from wave tank experiments, MIT engineers have found a way to model how waves break. “With this, you could simulate waves to help design structures better, more efficiently, and without huge safety factors,” says Themis Sapsis. Credit: iStockphoto The new model’s predictions should help researchers improve ocean climate simulations…
Speakers work by vibrating a membrane to manipulate air and create sound waves. Now, engineers at MIT have developed mountable paper-thin speakers that can produce sound from any surface. The creators say that the speakers should be easy to produce at a large scale. Additionally, they are energy efficient, so they won’t need a lot…