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Flagging loose bolts
“Smart alert washer” automatically flags when a nut is coming loose, warning of potential danger
Posted in Technology & Engineering, Young Scientists
Tagged accidents, bolt, China, Formula One, friction, getinvolved, Hong Kong, Intel, Intel ISEF, International Science and Engineering Fair, ISEF, Jia Ying Zhong, Mei Di Zhu, Mei Kam, nut, Sheng Keng Hui Li Ping Secondary School, spring, structures, washer
Avoiding ‘hot’ wheels
Teen designs device that could almost double the life of airplane tires
Posted in Technology & Engineering, Transportation, Young Scientists
Tagged airlines, Cape Town, delamination, getinvolved, Intel, Intel ISEF, intelisef, International Science and Engineering Fair, ISEF, Phillipe Lothaller, retread, Rondebosch Boys’ High School, South Africa; aircraft, tires, topstories
Light dancing on glass
New type of material lets light travel across its surface without interruption
Posted in Light & Radiation, Physics, Technology & Engineering
Tagged conductor, Cornell University, crystal, electrons, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, getinvolved, Haifa, insulator, Ithaca, Jacob Taylor, Joint Quantum Institute, light, materials science, Michal Lipson, Mordechai Segev, New York, photons, physics, superconductor, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, topological insulator, topology, University of Maryland
Blending in
Engineers take a lesson from nature’s masters of disguise
Posted in Animals, Technology & Engineering
Tagged 3-D TV, Andrea Toa, Baltimore County, camouflage, Cape Cod, cephalopod, chromatophore, cuttlefish, Doryteuthis pealeii, electronic skin, feature, flounder, holographic games, John Rogers, light detector, light sensor, Lydia Mathger, mantis shrimp, Marine Biological Laboratory, MBL, medical imaging, mega TVs, octopus, opsin, predator, Rice University, Richard Baraniuk, Roger Hanlon, Sepia officinalis, squid, submarine, three dimensional TV, Tom Cronin, topstories, University of California San Diego, University of Illinois, University of Maryland, visual pigment, Woods Hole
‘Print’ almost anything
3-D printers allow people to build almost anything they can imagine — from toys to food, buildings to body parts
Posted in Technology & Engineering
Tagged 3-D inks, 3-D printer, 3-D printing, additive manufacturing, artificial heart, August Rodin, Barack Obama, Cambridge, Cody R. Wilson, Cornell University, diabetes, engineering, ESA, European Space Agency, Fashion Week, feature, guns, Harvard University, Ibrahim Ozbolat, Industrial Revolution, insulin, Iris van Herpen, Ithaca, Jennifer Lewis, King Richard III, Loughborough University, makers, manufacturing, Mars base, moon base, NASA, pancreas, printed food, Richard Harris, sintering, space architecture, State of the Union, topstories, University of Iowa, University of Leicester
Sound cloak
New device hides objects from sonar
Posted in Physics, Technology & Engineering
Tagged acoustics, cloak, echo, getinvolved, Invisibility, José Sánchez-Dehesa, noise cancellation, noise cancelling, sonar, sound waves, submarines, topstories
Teens seek invention protection
Increasingly, young researchers seek patents to defend their innovations against theft
Posted in Teaching Science, Technology & Engineering, Young Scientists
Tagged air pollution, air quality, alcohol fuel cell, Alison Bick, Alison Dana Bick, allergy, asthma, Brian Cho, candles, Catherine Wong, clean energy, computer model, Design for the Other 90%, EKG, electrocardiograph, Environmental Protection Agency, enzymes, feature, Haejun Cho, incense, indoor air, Intel Science & Engineering Fair, Intel Science Talent Search, Intel STS, intellectual property, invent, invention, ISEF, John Ritter, lung capacity, lung disorder, lung function, Make: Electronics, membranes, microbial fuel cell, Milton Academy, Morristown High School, Naomi Chetan Shah, Naomi Shah, patent, Patent and Trademark Office, Patent It Yourself, Patent Office, Pavan Mehrotra, Pavan N. Mehrotra, Portland State University, Princeton University, Rahul Ganguli, Sierra Canyon School, silicone, soap, stethoscope, Sunset High School, supernova, Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, telemedicine, USPTO, VOCs, volatile organic chemicals, wireless stethoscope, yeast
Patent advice from teen inventors
How and when to apply for a patent
Posted in Teaching Science, Technology & Engineering, Young Scientists
Tagged Alison Dana Bick, Bright Hub, Catherine Wong, Google Scholar, invention, inventor, John Ritter, Morristown High School, Naomi Chetan Shah, Office of Technology Licensing, Patent Office, patenting, patents, Princeton, Princeton University, provisional patent, Sunset High School
Supertiny satellites launched
Researchers are building simple, miniature satellites to bring down their costs and expand their availability
Posted in Technology & Engineering
Tagged aerospace engineer, astronomy, Canada; Kieran Carroll, Canada; orbiting telescope, cosmology, exoplanet, Gedex, getinvolved, Hubble Space Telescope, infrared, Mississauga, nanosatellites (nanosats); Cordell Grant, Ontario, Orbit, satellites, sensors, space shuttle, stars, telescope, topstories, University of Toronto, wavelengths
Quake, quake, go away
French engineers report success in the first test of an underground seismic shield
Posted in Technology & Engineering
Tagged cloaking, Duke University, earthquake, electromagnetic radiation, engineering, getinvolved, Grenoble, Imperial College London, Institut Fresnel, Invisibility, John Pendry, light, light waves, Marseille, metamaterials, microwaves, Sébastien Guenneau, seismic waves, shields, topstories
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