Tag: Carnegie Mellon

Wheels that transform into tracks on the fly and a digital assistant that helps drivers find the safest, surest route across steep terrain —...

Smart devices can seem dumb if they don't understand where they are or what people around them are doing. Carnegie Mellon University researchers say...

When it comes to changing their passwords, bacteria are just as bad as you and me — maybe even worse. A Carnegie Mellon University...

When engineered nanoparticles in everyday products like paint, sunscreen and makeup hit the environment, they can cause unintended consequences. Greg Lowry, professor of civil and...

Carnegie Mellon University Materials Science and Engineering Professor Michael Bockstaller and his team are working on ways for quantum dots, or nanoparticles created from a specific...

Carnegie Mellon University's Sheng Shen has created a solder-like material called supersolder, with twice the thermal conductivity of conventional solders and a compliance higher...

Carnegie Mellon University’s Rosalyn Abbott is analyzing fat, or adipose tissue, to learn about the characteristics of disease mechanisms and metabolic behavior. As obesity...

Basketball players need lots of practice before they master the dribble, and it turns out that's true for computer-animated players as well. By using...

Additive manufacturing, otherwise known as 3D printing, can be used to manufacture porous electrodes for lithium-ion batteries—but because of the nature of the manufacturing...

We’re in the age of big data. Data collected through sensors and new technologies at multiple scales can be leveraged to make decisions and...

Realizing the importance of transportation in the development of smart cities, students and faculty in Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public...

Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists have mapped the feeling of cool touch to the brain's insula in a mouse model. The findings, published in the...

Chris Bettinger and his group have created a hydrogel material and fabrication process for electrodes that stick to the brain, matching its soft, squishy...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have used an inexpensive 3-D printer to produce flat plastic items that, when heated, fold themselves into predetermined shapes,...

Carnegie Mellon University's Radu Marculescu is using machine learning to understand the microorganisms in the human gastrointestinal tract. His work could lay the groundwork...

Walls are what they are — big, dull dividers. With a few applications of conductive paint and some electronics, however, walls can become smart...

One of four elderly persons falls every year in the United States. With more than 37 million hospitalizations annually, roughly one million falls occur...

Every year, millions of patients suffer from traumatic brain injuries often caused by car accidents, blows to the head, falls, infections or strokes. These patients...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a low-cost 3-D bioprinter by modifying a standard desktop 3-D printer, and they have released the breakthrough...

A team of American and Russian computer scientists has developed an algorithm that can rapidly search databases to discover novel variants of known antibiotics...