New scaling law predicts how wheels drive over sand
Formula could help optimize construction vehicles, military tanks, and rovers on Mars.
Formula could help optimize construction vehicles, military tanks, and rovers on Mars.
Youssef Marzouk aims to improve predictions of everything from underground pollution to daily weather.
New design cuts costs, energy needs for drip irrigation, bringing the systems within reach for more farmers.
Insights into the hydrodynamics of the move may improve underwater vehicle design.
Microfluidic device generates passive hydraulic power, may be used to make small robots move.
With chemistry and light, researchers can tune the focus of tiny beads of liquid.
Global precipitation may account for 1 to 25 percent of bacteria emitted from land.
Turbulence from seafloor topography may explain longstanding question about ocean circulation.
Made from hydrogel, robots may one day assist in surgical operations, evade underwater detection.
Better simulations of internal tides may benefit sonar communications, protect offshore structures, and more.
Engineer’s designs may help purify water, diagnose disease in remote regions of world.
Simple equation predicts force needed to push objects through granular and pasty materials.
Alfredo Alexander-Katz probes systems in action, from clotting blood to walking molecules.