Robots today can perform space missions, solve a Rubik’s cube, sort hospital medication and even make pancakes. But most can’t manage the simple act of grasping a pencil and spinning it arou... Read more
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE REALM OF POSSIBILITIES
NEW IDEAS
- An optical concentrator could give a real boost to solar cell output even on cloudy days
- A truly amazing adaptive heat-managing composite material
- An original approach to mass-producing low-cost solar cell foundation blocks for solar panels made from perovskite ink
- New detector may change the game in the search for signs of extraterrestrial life
- New biobatteries that use bacteria can generate power for weeks
- Could babies offer a new direction to overcome limitations of machine learning?
- Cryopreservation for organs moves closer
- Going ‘fishing’ with superparamagnetic nanoparticles to remove PFAS or other contaminants easily from polluted water
- Sound absorbing wallpaper?
- A novel wearable chemical sensor for on-body chemical analysis
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