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Machine learning pinpoints when matter changes under extreme conditions
Thu, 28 Jul 2022
Rochester researchers will cut through excess data to speed the search for new materials.
Continue ReadingPerformance under pressure at NASA’s Lunabotics competition
Fri, 17 Jun 2022
Rochester undergraduate students banded together to overcome multiple crises while fielding their robot on a simulated lunar surface at Kennedy Space Center.
Continue ReadingWill hearing aids ever be as effective as corrective eyewear?
Tue, 22 Feb 2022
Despite recent advances in hearing aid technology, users frequently complain that the devices tend to amplify all the sounds around them. Rochester researcher Jong-Noon Nam believes a key part of the answer to this problem lies inside the cochlea of the inner ear.
Continue ReadingNational Academy of Engineering honors Rob Clark
Thu, 10 Feb 2022
Clark is among the 111 newly elected members of the academy, considered one of the highest distinctions for an engineer.
Continue ReadingAt age 80, John Thomas writes new chapter in an illustrious career
Mon, 31 Jan 2022
The Rochester professor emeritus and new American Astronomical Society fellow now explores the brain’s waste disposal system.
Continue ReadingUsing nanodiamonds as sensors just got easier
Tue, 25 Jan 2022
Rochester researchers have found a new and improved way to extract temperature from the light emitted by a diamond defect.
Continue ReadingRochester scientists reveal the limits of machine learning for hydrogen models
Wed, 15 Dec 2021
Research from the Laboratory for Laser Energetics paves the way for more accurate computer models, which are needed to understand the interior of planets and the physical properties of nuclear fusion.
Continue ReadingGrant supports Rochester professor’s quest for superconductivity
Wed, 15 Sep 2021
The Moore Foundation award will also help Ranga Dias recruit other US scientists to join the quest to create viable superconducting materials.
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