The way barn owl brains use sound to locate prey may be a template for electronic directional navigation devices, according to a team of Penn State engineers who are recreating owl brain cir... Read more
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE REALM OF POSSIBILITIES
NEW IDEAS
- The impact of rocket launches may have a greater climate effect than the aviation industry
- Relieving pain without drugs using a dissolving implantable device
- Auditory electronic skin can hear better than ears alone
- How about a recycling approach that turns mixed waste into premium plastics with no climate impact?
- Smelling disease on your breath with a robot nose that senses biomarkers
- Found: The signal pathway in the brain that controls food intake
- Turning methane into methanol under ambient conditions using light: The ‘holy grail of catalysis’
- Using bacteria for a totally new type of fuel that has a projected energy density even greater than rocket fuel
- An optical concentrator could give a real boost to solar cell output even on cloudy days
- A truly amazing adaptive heat-managing composite material
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