A new UAS traffic management platform named AcrOSS, detailed in a paper published in Engineering, has been developed by researchers from the University of Salento. Designed to enhance the safety and efficiency of unmanned aircraft system operations in critical areas, the platform features a three-layer architecture and has undergone experimental testing, offering both promising results and areas for improvement.

MIT researchers showed they can inexpensively nanomanufacture silk microneedles to precisely fortify crops, monitor plant health, and detect soil toxins.

A new study in Engineering presents an adaptive quantum computing-based model predictive control strategy for building energy management. It aims to boost energy efficiency and decarbonize buildings, and experiments show promising results in reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions.

In Physics of Fluids, researchers have developed a foolproof recipe for cacio e pepe, based on their findings studying the physics of mixing cheese in water and determining the mechanism that causes the cheese sauce to go from creamy to clumpy. The team found that a 2%-3% starch-to-cheese ratio produced the smoothest, most uniform sauce; they recommend using powdered starch, rather than relying on an unknown amount of starch in pasta water.