NSF

Three engineers from the University of California Riverside have been awarded a 1.7 million grant by the National Science Foundation to study a new class of ultra-thin film materials, named van der Waals materials.

University of Maryland researchers are using the legs of insects as inspiration to create new micro-robots that will be able to travel uneven terrain quickly. The team is also working to have the robots jump and clear obstacles in their way.

The first seven awards provided by the Japan-U.S. Network Opportunity (JUNO) program were announced last month by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Japan National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT).