When frost forms on the ground overnight even when temperatures are well above freezing, or water droplets appear on car windshields even on a clear night, the cause is often a phenomenon called radiative sky cooling.
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New protective metamaterial takes hit, bounces right back
Mechanical engineers at UCLA and China’s Tsinghua University have opened a new path toward reusable energy-absorbing materials – ones designed to take an impact, then bounce back to their original shape and strength. The study was published in Advanced Functional Materials.
Khademhosseini elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Ali Khademhosseini, UCLA’s Levi James Knight, Jr. Professor of Engineering, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), the country’s highest honor for achievement in the arts, social sciences and sciences.
Soft-bodied swimming robot uses only light for power and steering
In a paper in Science Robotics, materials scientists from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering describe a new design for a swimming robot that’s both powered and steered by constant light.
UCLA researchers make breakthrough on understanding plasma instabilities
Advance could lead to better understanding of astronomical events such as solar flares and gamma ray bursts, and effects observed in scientific experiments in high-energy synchrotrons and storage rings.
Making More of Moore’s Law
UCLA researchers have a plan to redesign computer chips from the ground up to make smaller, cheaper, and more dynamic electronic devices.
Researchers flip how electrical signals move liquid droplets
The advance – using an electrical push rather than a pull – could lead to more reliable medical diagnostic tools
Breaking an ancient ceiling in metallurgy
Casting super strong metals with grain sizes down to nanometers during slow cooling. The study was published in Science Advances
Aerospace grad student receives top fellowship
UCLA aerospace engineering graduate student McKenna Davis has received a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, considered one of the country’s most prestigious honors for graduate students at the outset of their studies.
Deep learning enables scientists to identify cancer cells in blood in milliseconds
By UCLA Newsroom Technique could allow cells to be extracted in real time, help prevent cancer from spreadingResearchers at UCLA and NantWorks have developed an artificial intelligence-powered device that detects cancer cells...
UCLA engineers received $1.5 million grant to make environmentally friendly concrete
A team of UCLA engineers has received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop 3D-printed concrete that incorporates carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, as part of a binder.
Optical neural network could lead to intelligent cameras
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom UCLA engineers have made major improvements on their design of an optical neural network –a device inspired by how the human brain works – that can identify objects or process information at the speed...











