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Lunar landings
CategoriesTo prepare for NASA's Artemis missions, graduate students Juan Sebastian Rubio, Miguel X. Diaz-Lopez, and Matt Gorman ran a series of experiments to understand plume surface interactions— or what will happen when a landing spacecraft approaches the lunar surface.
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Hopkins-led team equips untethered mini-device with ability to tap through tissue.
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Researchers say the sensor combines accuracy levels approaching that of PCR testing with the speed of rapid antigen tests, and could be used for mass testing at airports, schools, and hospitals.
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Avian-inspired engineering
CategoriesSung Hoon Kang focuses his research on how nature—plants, animals, the human body—can provide inspiration for engineering breakthroughs. Through a four-year, roughly $600,000 Air Force grant, he is studying how the lightweight, adaptable, irregular structure of bird bones could provide a blueprint for more efficient and resilient aerospace and automotive materials.
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"Safe autonomous systems are crucial for our society," said Noah Cowan, professor of mechanical engineering. "Our approach will integrate traditional mathematical control theory with new and emerging AI to make systems verifiable, robust, safe, and correct."