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Author: Shivam Wakade | Founder, PrivSR Introduction Communication has become one of the most important parts of modern life. From personal messaging and business operations to emergency response and industrial monitoring, almost every activity depends on reliable connectivity. However, most communication systems today rely heavily on internet infrastructure, cellular towers, and centralized serv…

Dr. Onur Bilgen,  Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University. talks about the future of flapping wing drones, the role of smart materials in next-generation aircraft design, and how bioinspired engineering could influence the next wave of unmanned aviation innovation. Dr. Onur Bilgen is Associate Professor in the Department […] The post Sma…

If you drop a block of modern standard concrete into the ocean, the salty seawater will slowly chew it apart. Within a few decades, chemical reactions erode the material, causing micro-cracks that eventually lead to catastrophic structural failure. Yet, two-thousand-year-old Roman piers, breakwaters, and harbor structures still stand completely intact across the Mediterranean coastline. Even more…

Chulalongkorn University congratulates Mr. Phataradon Akarach, Mr. Ratanon Khamrong, and Mr. Settapun Laoaree, first-year students in the Computer Engineering and Digital Technology (CEDT) program at the Faculty of Engineering's Department of Computer Engineering. The team was selected to develop the national platform "PMUC Zero Burn to Earn," which has since been successfully launched and implem…

Nature Communications, Published online: 25 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-73144-7 The scarcity of effective doping strategies has so far limited the development of scalable complementary electronic circuits based on 2D semiconductors. Here, the authors report the fabrication of wafer-scale homogeneous top-gated complementary inverter arrays and logic circuits based on p-type and n-type doped 2…

ObjectiveTo compare left vs. right steep turns in terms of workload-related neurophysiological signatures using electroencephalogram (EEG) and machine learning.MethodsThirty-seven flight cadets performed one left and one right steep turn in an SR20 desktop flight simulator while a 32-channel EEG (Emotiv EPOC Flex 32) was recorded. From 2-s sliding windows (50% overlap), 800 features per window we…

A decades-old patent from MIT Professor Bill Freeman inspired the new “Y-zipper,” a three-sided fastener that can snap gear, robots, and art into shape with the push of a button. Long before shape-shifting robots and self-assembling structures became engineering goals, one MIT professor had already imagined a zipper that could transform floppy materials into rigid [...]

Engineers are increasingly turning to the concept of "biomimicry" for the next generation of Mars robots.

Every year, millions of lithium batteries travel across the world inside electric vehicles, e-bikes, power banks, laptops, and drones. Most of them arrive safely. But when a battery gets crushed — whether in a car accident, a shipping container, or even from being dropped or hit by something heavy — the situation can become dangerous very fast. This is why the UN38.3 crush test was created. UN38.…

Scientific Reports, Published online: 25 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-50473-7 Development of a model for design radiation shielding composite aprons using machine learning

Nature Communications, Published online: 25 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-73722-9 The physiological relevance and reproducibility of microphysiological systems is currently limited by perfusion systems. Here the authors engineer Hemadyne, an accordion music-inspired pump that mimics human blood flow, and apply it to study how aging-related flow waveforms impact vascular health.

Nature Communications, Published online: 25 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-73625-9 Hybrid copper iodides are promising, low-toxicity light emitters, but they are sensitive to heat and moisture. Here, the authors develop a low-temperature ceramic sintering process in which these materials are embedded in protective, transparent SrF2 matrix to enable stable lighting and X-ray imaging.

The Maritime Shipping Competition (MSC) at AAMAS 2025 introduced a novel challenge focused on autonomous decision-making in maritime logistics. Participants developed agents capable of bidding for cargoes in sequential reverse auctions and scheduling transportation under uncertainty. Using the Maritime Agent-Based Logistics Emulator (MABLE), the competition simulated tramp trade shipping markets …

To support the European Union’s decarbonization pathway for buildings – phasing out fossil heating and cooling by 2040 and achieving zero-emission standards by 2050, this work presents a forecast-based model predictive control (MPC) for thermally activated building components (TAB). TAB provides large-area, low-temperature heat transfer and substantial thermal storage, enabling the controller to …

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Long-distance electric vehicle (EV) travel depends critically on charging infrastructure reliability. When stations fail or queues form unexpectedly, drivers face increased range anxiety and risk of getting stranded. In this demonstration paper, we present EVMapSim, a discrete-event simulator for modelling EV navigation and charging behaviour at a national scale. We demonstrate 10,000+ vehicles t…

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User-centric cell-free massive MIMO is a key 6G technology to meet strict latency and energy-efficiency demandsof compute-intensive applications. In practical O-RAN deployments, the central unit and distributed unit compute capacityfluctuates with network-slicing dynamics. Relying on fixed compute resources and access-point (AP) clustering based solely onradio conditions leads to radio–compute mi…