The Optical Society: In this installment of Senior Member Insights, OPN talks with Susanna M. Thon—an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Johns Hopkins University and a fellow of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI), USA. Thon’s current research is…
IEEE Spectrum: Ollie (I think its name is Ollie) is a “a novel wheel-legged robot” from Tencent Robotics. The word “novel” is used quite appropriately here, since Ollie sports some unusual planar parallel legs atop driven wheels. It’s also got a…
Chemistry World: Rocket scientists at the Nasa Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, US, were working day and night. It was 1963 and they were testing hundreds of different combustion chamber designs and injectors for liquid hydrogen engines, trying to iron out problems with combustion stability that could thwart efforts to…
Discover Magazine: It’s often remarked of technological progress that everything keeps getting smaller (with the exception of televisions). Phones, computers, appliances and more have shrunk in size since they were…
3DPrint.com: Organized by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the Eurovision Song Contest sees performers and artists compete each year from countries that are EBU members, including the Netherlands, France,…
