Building Safer Roads with AI: The Emergency Vehicle Dataset
Dr. Chandra Jaiswal's team built a simulated driving dataset in which ambulances and police cars appear far more often, to help train self-driving systems to recognise emergency vehicles.
Field
Engineering
Materials, structures, energy, robotics and computing.
Life-threatening duodenal injury healed using three advanced endoscopic techniques
Dr. Gustavo de Carvalho Bertaccini Guriam's team reports one patient whose persistent duodenal fistula closed after combined endoscopic vacuum therapy, internal drainage stents and an over-the-scope clip.
Cotton Fibres Help Biodegradable Plastic Do What It Couldn’t
Associate Professor Jin Zhang's team made the brittle biodegradable plastic PHB stronger, tougher and more flexible by reinforcing it with coated cotton fibres and chemically modifying it to bond better.
This clever engineered wood beam could reshape how buildings are made
An engineered wood beam with a honeycomb-like corrugated core nearly matched glulam's strength while being stiffer for its weight, in bending tests by Dr. Mohammadabadi's team at Mississippi State University.
Creative Way To Track Toxic Pollution Moving Underground
Professor Bing Bai's team developed a model, built on granular thermodynamics, that predicts how heavy metals and suspended particles move together through soil under stress and temperature changes, matching soil-column experiments.
Red Mud and Fly Ash Combine to Form Ultra Strong Material
Professor Bing Bai's team found that red mud combined with fly ash and cured in warm conditions can form a geopolymer whose strength becomes comparable to high-grade cement after several weeks.
This Plastic Cleans Itself And Even Stops Ice Forming
Jin Zhang's team turned ordinary PET plastic into sheets that repel water, clean themselves, delay ice formation and resist UV damage, using heat-engraved surface patterns and chemical treatment without nanoparticles.
Experts Warn We Must Act Now to Protect Human Creativity
Professor Giovanni Emanuele Corazza and colleagues from the International Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation set out a decalogue of research challenges for cyber-creativity, from theory and education to ethics.
Scientists create a new sensor that sees the unseen in water
Dr. Reza Kohandani and Dr. Simarjeet Saini built a gold nanograting light sensor with a built-in reference mode that cancels temperature drift, sharpening detection of tiny changes in water-like liquids.
Old Ships Are Powering Growth but Challenges Remain
Dr. Khandakar Akhter Hossain's assessment finds Bangladesh's ship recycling industry economically vital but facing safety, environmental and certification gaps, and argues modernization is needed to keep pace with regional competitors.
Cheaper and Stronger Magnet That Could Rival Current Technology
Professor Tetsuji Saito reviews samarium-iron-nitride magnets, describing strong magnetic performance and commercial bonded magnets, but notes fully dense sintered magnets remain a challenge before they could replace current materials.
Control Method Helps Drones Stay Stable in Turbulent Conditions
Professor Francisco Jurado's adaptive control method kept simulated quadrotor drones tracking stably under disturbances and prevented parameter drift, with lower tracking errors than comparable methods in most cases.
A new way to make complex computer systems cooperate
Professor Bernard Zeigler and colleagues argue that the DEVS modelling framework, through closure under coupling, universality and uniqueness, can serve as a common standard for linking different simulation tools.