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Researchers from Clemson’s Nanomaterials Institute (CNI) are one step closer to wirelessly powering the world using triboelectricity, a green energy source. In March 2017, a group of physicists at CNI invented the ultra-simple triboelectric nanogenerator or U-TENG, a small device made of plastic and tape that generates electricity from motion and vibrations. When the two materials are brought together

It contains evidence that potentially life-supporting water once flowed in abundance, leaving clay minerals behind. Scientists on Friday called NASA’s Opportunity rover gimpy and arthritic, but hailed its new discoveries about early water on Mars made almost 10 years after it was launched toward the Red Planet. The unmanned solar-powered vehicle has just analysed what

We could see some pertinent new laws enacted in the next few years As the technology improves, 3D printers are being used more and more to create a wide variety of objects, some incredibly useful (like skeletal implants) and some just for fun (like custom robot figurines). Here’s another – somewhat controversial – example of

The research institute claims that it can be easily adapted for home theater, gaming and telepresence applications Multiscreen setups for PC gaming are not new, but the latest MIT Media Lab‘s Infinity-by-Nine system may take the idea to a whole new level. The system generates blurry pictures of a video and then projects them separately

A surprising number of scientists, engineers and amateur space enthusiasts fervently believe in this dream As any avid Star Trek fan can tell you, the eccentric physicist Zefram Cochraneinvented the warp-drive engine in the year 2063. It wasn’t easy. Cochrane had to contend with evil time-traveling aliens who were determined to stop him from building the

The goal of Mr. Peters, 51, and his co-workers at International Battery, a high-tech start-up, is industrial revolution.

It could take at least five to ten years before clinical trials could start   For the first time scientists have succeeded in taking skin cells from heart failure patients and reprogramming them to transform into healthy, new heart muscle cells that are capable of integrating with existing heart tissue. The research, which is published

The online university UniversityNow is offering a way for working adults to get a college degree at literally no cost to its students. Lucky high school students can scrape together enough scholarships and grants to cover a hefty portion of their college tuition. But working adults? They’re generally on their own. UniversityNow has gained a following for

Initial results in mice could lead to new way to fight neurodegenerative diseases There’s new hope in the fight against Huntington’s disease. A group of researchers that includes scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have designed a compound that suppresses symptoms of the devastating disease in mice. The