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This sponsored article is brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. In a significant advancement for the field of drug delivery, researchers have developed a new technique that addresses a persistent challenge: scalable manufacturing of nanoparticles and microparticles. This innovation, led by Nathalie M. Pinkerton, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, promises to bridge the gap between lab-scale drug delivery research and large-scale pharmaceutical manufacturing. The breakthrough, known as Sequenti

In the early 1970s, the Cold War had reached a particularly frigid moment, and U.S. military and intelligence officials had a problem. The Soviet Navy was becoming a global maritime threat—and the United States did not have a global ocean-surveillance capability. Adding to the alarm was the emergence of a new Kirov class of nuclear-powered guided-missile battle cruisers, the largest Soviet vessels yet. For the United States, this situation meant that the perilous equilibrium of mutual assured destruction, MAD, which so far had dissuaded either side from launching a nuclear strike, could tilt in the wrong direction. It would be up to a top-secret

Shoppers probably don’t realize how large a role data science plays in retail. The discipline provides information about consumer habits to help predict demand for products. It’s also used to set prices, determine the number of items to be manufactured, and figure out more efficient ways to transport goods.Those are just some of the insights that data scientist Vivek Anand extracts to inform decision makers at the Gap, a clothing company hea

During the past 13 years, the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) has awarded US $4.6 million in scholarships to undergraduate students in North America studying power engineering as part of its Scholarship Plus Initiative.PES has increased the scholarship amount this year to $10,000, up from $7,000. Recipients, who do not have to be IEEE student members, are eligible to receive up to three years of financial support but must reapply each year. They can apply for the scholarship as early as their freshman year.

In the early 1990s, Toyota saw that environmental awareness and tighter emissions regulations would shape the future of the automotive industry. The company aimed to create an eco-friendly, efficient vehicle that would meet future standards.In 1997 Toyota introduced the Prius to the Japanese market. The car was the world’s first mass-produced hybrid vehicle that combined gasoline and electric power to reduce fuel consumption and emissions. Its worldwide debut came in 2000.Developing the Prius posed significant technical and m

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March 2025, NUREMBERG, GERMANYGerman Robotics Conference: 13–15 March 2025, NUREMBERG, GERMANYRoboSoft 2025: 23–26 April 2025, LAUSANNE, SWITZERL

We live in a world filled with computer viruses, and antivirus software is almost as old as the Internet itself: The first version of what would become McAfee antivirus came out in 1987—just four years after the Internet booted up. For many of us, antivirus software is an annoyance, taking up computer resources and generating opaque pop-ups.But they are also necessary: Almost every computer today is

In 1942, the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics in his short story “Runaround.” The laws were later popularized in his seminal story collection I, Robot.First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.Second Law: A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except whe

This article is part of our exclusive career advice series in partnership with the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society.When thinking about influencers, you might initially consider people with a large social media following who have the power to affect people with an interest in fashion, fitness, or food.However, the people closest to you can influence the success you have in the early days of your career in ways that affect your professional journey. These influencers include you, your management, colleagues, an

Humans make mistakes all the time. All of us do, every day, in tasks both new and routine. Some of our mistakes are minor and some are catastrophic. Mistakes can break trust with our friends, lose the confidence of our bosses, and sometimes be the difference between life and death.Over the millennia, we have created security systems to deal with the sorts of mistakes humans commonly make. These days, casinos rotate their dealers regularly, because they make mistakes if they do the same task for too long. Hospital personnel write on limbs before surgery so that doctors operate on the correct body part, and they count surgical instruments to make sure none were left inside the body. From copyediting to double-entry bookkeeping to appellate courts, we humans have