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Solid learning objectives and assessing students are among the keys to success highlighted in a recent IEEE conference

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VotingWorks’ Arlo software creates a document trail and calculates a confidence value for an election’s results

Makers of Internet-connected gadgets should have to certify that their products can resist cyberattacks

Chinese company sets out first steps towards extracting space resources

Former chief engineer of Makani speaks to Spectrum about energy kites and the future of AWE

The robotics startup will be launching into space next year an advanced manipulator with integrated sensing and computing

Should crewed exploration of Venus come before we try to go to Mars?

Researchers still don’t have a way to neutralize the former nuclear-weapons complex’s 1,936 capsules of radioactive cesium and strontium

Election officials have all the information they need to ensure that voting in November will go smoothly. But will they use it?

The company is using precise beaming to develop a new asset tracking technique

Start-up company applies machine learning to discover new molecules that could fight disease

The IEEE Brain Initiative seeks volunteers to help frame ethical, legal, and social issues for neurotechnologists to consider

Recharging N95 masks restores filtering ability to like-new levels for reuse—and opens the door for battery-operated masks that retain effectiveness throughout the day

Using fixed-wing drones to make deliveries can definitely work, but we’ve got some questions about Walmart’s plans

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E-CoVig uses a cloud-based eHealth platform

This presentation will discuss the development of an electronics cooling problem subjected to a complex thermal environment.

A new reading list aims to address racial inequality in academic robotics by highlighting the work of Black researchers

Tech professionals involved with consumer product development claim top earnings spot in IEEE-USA’s latest salary survey

Designing semiconductor circuits hand-in-hand with microfluidic cooling systems could mean huge boosts in efficiency

Toronto-based Xanadu suggests its system could scale up to millions of qubits

The Life Fellow received the 2006 IEEE Medal of Honor

The new system eliminates the rat's nest of wiring and collects information that can be used to design better batteries

Machine learning shows some promise in boosting contact tracing technologies meant for detecting nearby phones

By accounting for inertial forces, the new design can reduce the metabolic energy required by the user

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SkyDrive’s success in conducting a piloted eVTOL test indicates short-hop flights are close to commercial reality

Startup Seatrec has developed underwater energy harvesting charging stations for monitoring, mining and military drones

Planning of satellite communication links or even whole networks is a very demanding task.

The organization is working to overcome challenges brought on by the pandemic

The IEEE Board of Directors sanctions a member

The robot could one day reduce the need for humans to take on the risky job of climbing coconut trees

Pliant Energy says its C-Ray robot could be a less invasive tool for ocean mining

Researchers develop a solar tech that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen with record efficiency

IBM looks to revolutionize industrial chemistry and in the process may have cut the discovery time for Covid-19 treatments in half

The website, developed by high school students, contains information about wait times and the number of available ICU beds

The website, developed by high school students, contains information about wait times and the number of available ICU beds

MIT spinoff harnesses optical computing to make neural-networks run faster and more efficiently

Musk's company Neuralink demonstrates fully implantable chip in pigs

Developed by a Portuguese research team, the device sends an alert if it senses trouble

Engineering couldn’t cure a devastating illness, but it could still help someone cope with it

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How and why we spend trillions to keep old software going

Tiny Naganohara aims to beat the world and operate the first self-driving amphibious bus for tourists

It's what Carp, Crocodiles and Kikkoman have in common

Foldable, ballistically launched SQUID drones could one day deploy to Mars

Momentum Dynamics' inductive energy transfer method gives city dwellers convenient charging without space-invading charging stations

Researchers can send 178 terabits/sec through a cable in the lab. The trick will be getting this bandwidth into the real world