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May 21 | News
A team of engineers at Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania has for the first time used plasmonic cloaking to create a device that can see without being seen—an invisible machine that detects light. It is the first example of what the researchers describe as a new class of devices that controls the flow of light at the nanoscale to produce both optical and electronic functions.
May 11 | News
Most people take gravity for granted. But for University of Pennsylvania astrophysicist Bhuvnesh Jain, the nature of gravity is the question of a lifetime. As scientists have been able to see farther and deeper into the universe, the laws of gravity have been revealed to be under the influence of an unexplained force. By analyzing a well-studied class of stars in nearby galaxies, a team of astrophysicists have produced new findings that narrow down the possibilities of what this force could be.
May 2 | News
A team of biomedical engineers and hematologists at the University of Pennsylvania has made large-scale, patient-specific simulations of blood function under the flow conditions found in blood vessels, using robots to run hundreds of tests on human platelets responding to combinations of activating agents that cause clotting.
Apr 25 | News
Protein design is a technique that is increasingly valuable to a variety of fields, from biochemistry, to therapeutics, to materials engineering. University of Pennsylvania chemists have taken this kind of design a step further; using computational methods, they have created the first custom-designed protein crystal.
Apr 3 | News
An ambitious new project to reinvent how robots are designed and produced is being funded by a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation. A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the University of Pennsylvania aims to develop a desktop technology that would make it possible for the average person to design, customize, and print a specialized robot in a matter of hours.
Apr 3 | News
The University of Pennsylvania will lead a $10 million National Science Foundation project to make computer programming faster, easier, and more intuitive. Dubbed ExCAPE for Expeditions in Computer Augmented Program Engineering, the project is a collaborative effort that will involve multiple research institutions, partners in industry, and educational outreach to the next generation of computer scientists.
Feb 28 | News
Computational sprinting is a new approach to smartphone power and cooling that could give users dramatic, brief bursts of computing capability to improve current applications and make new ones possible. Its developers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan are pushing mobile chips beyond their sustainable operating limits, much like a sprinter who runs extremely fast for a relatively short distance.
Feb 23 | News
The technological world
of the 21st century owes a tremendous amount to advances in
electrical engineering, specifically, the ability to finely control the
flow of
electrical charges using increasingly small and complicated circuits.
And while
those electrical advances continue to race ahead, researchers at the
University of Pennsylvania are pushing circuitry
forward in a different way, by replacing electricity with light.
Feb 10 | News
Engineers
at two universities and IBM Research’s Zurich, Switzerland, R&D
center have developed an ultrasharp silicon carbide tip that is 10,000
times more wear resistant than previous than previous designs and
100,000 times smaller than the tip of a pencil.
11/14/2011 | News
Suspended
animation may not be just for sci-fi movies anymore: Trauma surgeons
soon will try plunging some critically injured people into a deep
chill—cooling their body temperatures as low as 50 degrees—in hopes of
saving their lives.
