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Three years ago, Terry Hope was working as an engineer on a Canadian schooner. He wanted to take along an electric scooter, but was told by the captain that he couldn’t bring aboard anything that couldn’t fit in a suitcase. His response, naturally, was to set about designing an electric scooter that could fit inside a

UH Researchers Discover New Form of Stretchable Electronics, Sensors and Skins A team of researchers from the University of Houston has reported a breakthrough in stretchable electronics that can serve as an artificial skin, allowing a robotic hand to sense the difference between hot and cold, while also offering advantages for a wide range of

A project by students from The University of Western Australia and Mars One astronaut candidate Josh Richards has reached the finals of an international competition to land vital experiments on the Red Planet. The Helena Payload project, which aims to generate the first breathable air on Mars, is one of 10 finalists in the Mars

Not Quite Yet, but in the Journal “Physics of Plasmas,” Researchers from National Ignition Facility Show Just How Close We’ve Come The dream of igniting a self-sustained fusion reaction with high yields of energy, a feat likened to creating a miniature star on Earth, is getting closer to becoming reality, according the authors of a

The model predicts a design for a soybean crop with 8.5 percent more productivity but using 13 percent less water Crops that produce more while using less water seem like a dream for a world with a burgeoning population and already strained food and water resources. This dream is coming closer to reality for University

UTMB develops a universal vaccine platform that’s cheaper and shelf stable Researchers at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have developed a less expensive way to produce vaccines that cuts the cost of vaccine production and storage by 80 percent without decreasing safety or effectiveness. The findings are currently available in EBioMedicine. Vaccines are the most effective

The research is still in its early stages right now Even alternative energy technologies can sometimes be a little greener, according to a Kansas State University graduate student’s research. Ayomi Perera, a doctoral student in chemistry, Sri Lanka, is working under Stefan Bossmann, professor of chemistry, to improve dye-sensitized solar cells. The cells are a

The first demonstration of a fully print-in-place electronics technique is gentle enough to work on surfaces as delicate as human skin and paper. Electrical engineers at Duke University have devised a fully print-in-place technique for electronics that is gentle enough to work on delicate surfaces including paper and human skin. The advance could enable technologies

Offering comprehensive analysis of the disparate factors that will drive global politics through 2030 Earlier this month the US National Intelligence Councilreleased its Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds report – a document that comes out once per presidential administration – mapping out likely geopolitical trends over the next two decades or so. As usual, it’s a must-read, offering

The first “A” in NASA stands for aeronautics, and the agency is leading a host of federal programs and initiatives that aim to develop a fleet of environmentally friendly aircraft It took 24 years for humankind to advance from the first powered flight in 1903 to Charles Lindbergh’s famous crossing of the Atlantic (and even