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Morpho butterfly wings inspire thermal imaging breakthrough

Polymer repairs itself at body temperature for wound dressings and regenerative medicine

How to Stop Wildlife Poachers

A combination of radiation therapy with immunotherapy has amazing results for pancreatic cancer in mice

New green alternative for drug production

A net-zero fuel recipe for planes that will pull carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the air

Clinical Trial Finds Intensive Treatment Highly Effective for Children with High-Functioning Autism

A way to treat colitis by the precision editing of gut bacteria?

New water recovery technology could be a great solution to address the global water crisis

Should Robots Get Rights?

Public University of Navarre (UPNA)

Powerful, efficient ceramic fuel cells could enable in-home production of electricity from natural gas

Eggshells could be used to fight global warming

A new nanodevice that acts almost identically to a brain cell can form networks that can then solve problems in a brain-like manner

Foreigners Attending US Grad Schools Way Down: Wake Up, Xenophobes

MV-1 van is designed specifically for wheelchair users

Micromachines for a Safer World

Johns Hopkins study finds Psilocybin dosage ‘sweet spot’ for positive and lasting effects

Scientists Shed Light on Biology of Human Consciousness

Team Creates Realistic Robot Carp, First Robot Fish with Autonomous 3-D Movement

Indiana Jones Meets George Jetson

Virginia Commonwealth University

Shining a little light changes metal into semiconductor

New technique detects microscopic diabetes-related eye damage

Ads That Let You Check In at Your Favorite Billboard

Could this approach enable electronic devices with speeds orders of magnitude higher?

Self-Adapting Computer Network That Defends Itself Against Hackers?

Altering or even erasing traumatic memories

Idle Livestock Hit the Treadmill to Generate Electricity For Farms

Charged supercapacitor Power Suits for electric vehicles and spacecraft

Winds of change for the shipping sector

Saving over $1 billion in soybean yield losses by using a type of fungi

Inflatable antennae could give CubeSats greater reach

New Device Converts DC Electric Field to Terahertz Radiation

Young Inventors Solve Old Problems in New Ways

Soil Lamp: Grow Your Own Light

New solar cell technology boosts efficiency of photovoltaics by 80%

Cellulose from wood can be used to print in 3D

Synthetic Magnetic Particle: A revolutionary development comparable to the discovery of the electron

New memristor-based neural network is dramatically more efficient

Scientists create ‘floating pixels’ using soundwaves and force fields

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

New Heat Pump Could Last 10,000 Years

World first demonstration of virtualised 5G architecture

Could Shipwrecks Lead the World to War?

How Singapore Could Become the Most Important City in the Emerging World

Could a breakthrough in the spintronics manufacturing process bring about an electronics revolution?

Six people with severe spinal cord injuries have regained use of their hands and fingers after a nonsurgical, noninvasive spinal stimulation procedure

Improved Method for Isotope Enrichment Could Secure a Vital Global Commodity

Research into “materials that compute” advances as engineers demonstrate system performs pattern recognition

Chemists devise revolutionary 3D bone-scanning technique

Systemic cellular reprogramming increases lifespan in mice by one third

Faster photonic chips are on the way

Volvo’s ultra-light Air Motion Concept

New way to find cancer ‘hidden’ amongst billions of healthy cells

New Metallic Bubble Wrap Offers Big Benefits Over Other Protective Materials

Predicting algae’s potential as an effective alternative energy source using artificial intelligence

Bulacan students invent ‘anti-botcha’ robot

Disappearance of Coral Reefs, Drastically Altered Marine Food Web on the Horizon

New material for creating artificial blood vessels

Levytator – the curvy, energy-saving escalator

Dietary Flavanols Reverse Age-Related Memory Decline

Seeking Online Refuge From Spying Eyes

Using plants to produce nanobodies that quickly block emerging pathogens in human medicine and agriculture

A bionic leaf that uses bacteria, sunlight, water and air to make fertilizer in the very soil where crops are grown

All eyes on the sharing economy

Brain surgery through the cheek

Robotic lake lander could explore bodies of water on other planets

How to Overhaul the Way Buildings Use Energy

A next generation prosthetic hand enables amputees to regain a very subtle close-to-natural sense of touch

A High-Tech Alternative for Hollywood Hopefuls

Breakthrough in solar cell efficiency

The medicines of the future may be delivered by edible QR codes

Sidesteping one of the primary obstacles standing in the way of effective quantum logic circuits

NRL Shatters Endurance Record for Small Electric UAV

Ecuador Asks World to Pay to Keep Yasuni Oil Underground

Secret Affordable Solar Power Worldwide

University of Saskatchewan

Canon Wonder Camera Concept displayed at Expo 2010

Chinese researchers make breakthrough in SLA 3D printing, soon be able to 3D print porcelain teeth in minutes

Self-cleaning concrete could save time money and reduce disease risk

Spaceflight alters bacterial social networks

An improved energy harvesting device can convert heat to electricity to power electronics

New Solar Technology Pays Back Energy Investment Faster in a Matter of Months

Replacing Batteries May Become a Thing of the Past, Thanks to ‘Soft Generators’

Artificial life, the stuff of dreams and nightmares, has arrived

With graphene a narrow enough ribbon will transform a conductor into a semiconductor

Coating for metals rapidly heals over scratches and scrapes to prevent corrosion

Spent nuclear fuel from power plants still has 95% of its potential to produce electricity

Far more effective treatment for heart failure possible in 5 years

Green Tea Reduced Inflammation, May Inhibit Prostate Cancer Tumor Growth

Wikipedia bots often end up having online fights lasting years over changes in content

An electrical-stimulated piece of artificial muscle created by the team could lift a load 80 times its weight

Stanford researcher suggests heading for an all-electric country

UW fusion reactor concept could be cheaper than coal

In Case You Wondered, a Real Human Wrote This Column

Speech recognition from brain activity

Drones and democracy

Iowa State University (ISU)

In Brazil, Paying Farmers to Let the Trees Stand

Inspired by Nature, Researchers Create Tougher Metal Materials

Robotic Fish Research Swims into New Ethorobotics Waters

Stanford Engineer Invents Safe Way to Transfer Energy to Medical Chips in the Body

Deep ocean needs policy, stewardship where it never existed

Hawking: AI breakthrough could end civilisation

Nanowires give ‘solar fuel cell’ efficiency a tenfold boost

Microbots controlled using mini force fields

Floating Wind Turbines Set to Conquer Deep Ocean

What is the immersive news experience really all about?

15 emerging technologies that could help to reduce global catastrophic biological risks

Lockheed Martin’s Samurai monocopter – you won’t believe how this thing flies

Virgin Oceanic’s ambitious plans to explore Earth’s last frontier

First-in-Man Use of Virtual Reality Imaging in Cardiac Cath Lab to Treat Blocked Coronary Artery

How Two Guys Got Together To Build A New Hand

Joining the drones club

Flexible touchscreens could be printed just like newspaper

Arthritis breakthrough could end agony for millions of sufferers

Here’s how to assess COVID-19 transmission risks in indoor settings

Mini autofocus lens mimics the human eye

A ban on widely used insecticides is called for by leading researchers

Machine learning will speed up fusion energy development

United Nations to Adopt Asteroid Defense Plan

Easy-to-manufacture switchable windows could improve energy efficiency in buildings and help keep cars cool

Web hi-tech crime wave

Quantum Cash and the End of Counterfeiting

Google Makes Huge Investment in Wind Farms

Reversing the course of destructive nephritis

Lay Back And Clean Your House With Swarming Micro Robot Cleaners

The global environment: Boundary conditions

New graphene transistor created with record high-switching performance

A new algorithm could predict where illegal activity might reoccur

A Robotic Clone So Advanced, It’ll Give You Dirty Looks

Study of noninvasive retinal imaging device presented at Alzheimer’s conference

Schrödinger’s cat gets a second box to play in helping quantum computing

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW)

The race to quantum computing takes a big step forward

Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology

Low doses of antianxiety drugs rebalance the autistic brain

New artificial intelligence system uses transparent human-like reasoning to solve problems

A new platform to help control your data privacy

New Twist On Old Chemical Process Could Boost Energy Efficiency Significantly

Could a new reliable COVID-19 test help reduce virus spread

An artificial intelligence program that detects cognitive impairment accurately and efficiently from voice recordings

Sticky paper offers cheap, easy solution for paper-based medical diagnostics

Tiny $14 Kilobots work by swarming together

VIDEO Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!

Ruling Spurs Effort to Form Digital Public Library

Particles, ranging from roughly molecule to bacteria-sized, can be manipulated by a beam of ordinary light

Putting electric motors into the wheels of cars is the way forward

YouTube for Schools provides distraction-free access to educational content

Using magnetic fields to remotely stimulate the brain and control body movements

Can triboelectricity wirelessly power the world?

Gut immune cells can reduce brain inflammation in people with multiple sclerosis

Radboud professor invents magnet for fast and cheap data storage

Could a biomarker identify PTSD suffers most at risk for suicide?

Regenerative cardiac therapies take a critical step

Mobile With Electricity

New 3-D manufacturing method rapidly creates and precisely controls a material’s architecture from the nanoscale to centimeters

MapCrunch: It’s Chatroulette Meets Google Street View

A significant step in having robots actually learn from directly watching humans

A neuron-growing ink uses the body’s own electrical signals to precisely guide the growth of nerve cells offering nerve injury hope

Using a magnetic spray transforms objects into millirobots

A promising new method uses acoustics to capture microplastics in water

Researchers manipulate virus to create possible new cancer treatment

Steam from the sun

A quick-destructing battery to power ‘transient’ devices

Seeing the Big Picture in Photosynthetic Light Harvesting

A very different way to potentially head off heart attacks and strokes

Twisted Radio Waves Could Expand Mobile-Phone Bandwidth by a Factor of 9

Google network learns to play Space Invaders in breakthrough for artificial intelligence

VIDEO TEDxBozeman – Yarrow Kraner – Creativity is Your Superpower

Using crowdsourcing to solve complex problems

On-Demand Synaptic Electronics: Circuits That Learn and Forget

Kinect 3D Full Body “Hologram”

Fish-eyed lens cuts through the dark

New hologram technology created with tiny nanoantennas

Bacterial infections are one of the biggest health problems worldwide: A new detection method arrives

The concept of organs on a chip opens the possibility of realistically studying human organs without the use of patients or animal testing

Motorcycle brake lighting system doesn’t care how you’re slowing down

UNL team’s discovery yields supertough, strong nanofibers

Low-carbon growth ‘needs incentives’

Nature’s elegant and efficient vision systems can detect cancer

Columbia Chemists Find Key to Manufacturing More Efficient Solar Cells

Making Android and iOS apps available across multiple devices

University of Minnesota engineers make sound loud enough to bend light on a computer chip

Turning water into ammonia with only renewable energy

Programmable glue made of DNA directs tiny gel bricks to self-assemble

Could a cocktail of geoengineering approaches help the climate?

A Satellite System That Could End Circling Above the Airport

Engineers gain new insight into turbulence that could lead to significant global energy savings

Large areas of coral reefs can be rehabilitated with new “spider” technique

Ecoppia Announces World’s First Completely Autonomously-Cleaned Solar Energy Park

Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)

Advancing non-animal testing methods: first set of novel knowledge tools published

New solar cell design based on dots, wires could be cheaper and more efficient

‘Talking’ to structures to boost public safety

Vast Spy System Loots Computers in 103 Countries

Cleaner-burning cook stove designed for use in developing nations

VIDEO Creativity – Classes in St Albans – Ken Robinson Says Schools Kill Creativity Business Wealth Club

Changes to fisheries legislation have removed habitat protection for most species in Canada

A new type of soft electronics that are self-healing, reconfigurable, and recyclable

Tiny Drone Reveals Ancient Royal Burial Sites

Corals that withstood a severe bleaching event and were transplanted to a different reef maintained their resilient qualities

Rice makes light-driven nanosubmarines

Can big data crunching help feed the world?

Artificial-intelligence system surfs the web to improve its performance

University of Lorraine

New Idea in Energy Storage: Wires that Store and Transmit Energy

Memory loss in old age breakthrough offers dementia hope, say researchers

Start Up the Risk-Takers

New process combines better quality with low cost and less waste, giant step towards in-home 3D printing

Ecologically sustainable energy storage using vanillin?

Team Develops Faster, Higher Quality 3-D Camera

Novel Nanotechnology Collaboration Leads to Breakthrough in Cancer Research

Using swarms of tiny autonomous tiny drones to find gas leaks in buildings and on industrial sites

Ultra-stable Microscopy Technique Tracks Tiny Objects for Hours

Robotic consensus to avoid moving objects

Neutralizing snake neurotoxins across species and geographies with a new human antibody

Hybrid Streetlights: Good Or Bad News For Utilities?

High-dose opiates could crack chronic pain

Cheaper, faster, stretchy, bendy, flexible LEDs can be fabricated with an inkjet printer

Need an Expert? Try the Crowd

Using lasers to rapidly and temporarily change the properties of materials without producing heat

Professor’s algorithm writes technical reports, romance novels could be next

A new method to capture CO2 using sunlight as the energy source and modified sawdust as the CO2 absorbent

Panel-powered car could double the range of electric vehicles

Another leap towards beating plastic waste

The Shadow Robot Dexterous Hand is comparable to a human hand, reproducing all of its degrees of freedom

VIDEO: Study Suggests New Way of Thinking about Brain Injury – As Autoimmune Disorder

Drawing bioelectronics with a pencil on skin could be the new tattoo

Promising new pancreatic cancer treatment progresses to a clinical trial

The first quantum data bus may be in sight

Energy Storage System Deals With Sudden Draws on the Grid

STEM Education Has Little to Do With Flowers

Scientists hail breakthrough to a new generation of biofuels made from waste

Modified Android system keeps smartphone data from leaving specified physical locations

The potential to prevent some spinal cord injuries from resulting in paralysis

Magnetically-driven nanoparticles could offer a new way to help stop internal bleeding

Researchers develop a blood test for depression and bipolar disorder

Low-cost touch sensing can be added to objects of almost any shape

Aalto University

Ethereum, think Bitcoin plus smart contracts plus much more

Preventing and treating human autoimmune diseases using plant viruses

Music sessions could be crucial in transforming the lives of millions of people with verbal challenges

Dermal tattoo sensors for the detection of blood pH change and metabolite levels

Automated ‘coach’ could help with social interactions

Autodesk Unveils Open-Source 3-D Printing System

3-D printing offers innovative method to deliver medication

The first controllable metamaterial device

Electric cars could fill up at the MetILs pump

Motorcycle headlights that look around the corners

Scientists Decode Brain Waves to Eavesdrop On What We Hear

A material that can learn like the brain

VIDEO: Thought-controlled quadcopter takes to the skies

Millions of hectares of land contaminated by TNT could be cleaned up via gene expression

Nanoscale Nonlinear Light Source Optical Device Can Be Controlled Electronically

Allowing indoor drones to fly autonomously opens wide ranging uses

The World in 2050 – The New North

New smart textiles boost connectivity for wearable technologies

New 5D Method to Understand Big Data

UPenn’s GRASP lab unleashes a swarm of Nano Quadrotors

Real-time prediction of disease outbreaks in food animals starting with PEDV

Scientists Reveal Underpinnings of Drought Tolerance in Plants

Wet age-related macular degeneration could be treated with eyedrops soon

Another step towards 3-D printed replacement knee parts that are custom-shaped to each patient’s anatomy

What the 2012 TED Prize Means for ‘The City 2.0’

New Filtration Material Could Make Petroleum Refining Cheaper, More Efficient

Luminous Bacterial Proteins Detect Chemicals in Water

9-gigapixel image shows 84 million stars

Brain tumors treated with salmonella

Performing single-molecule biopsies on individual cells using nanoscale tweezers

Reprogrammed Cells Repair Damaged Livers

Seatower’s game-changing wind turbine foundations could reduce the cost of offshore wind farming

Optogenetics: Revolutionizing a revolutionary technology

University of Twente

Extending Einstein’s theory beyond light speed

Glass roof tiles let a little sunshine in to cut heating bills

Can Entrepreneurs Be Made?

24 Hours Climate Hack-a-Thon Will Build Energy Reduction Apps

UEA researchers pioneer first patient-specific 3D virtual birth simulator

A genuine alternative to crude-oil-based high-performance polyamides from cellulose

Dress Up Like Your Favourite Celebrity This Halloween

The Footprints of Web Feet

Volvo Car Group tests road magnets for accurate positioning of self-driving cars

Has climate change begun to suffocate the world’s fisheries?

Why heat and cool the room when clothing can keep us comfortable?

Creative AI: Teaching computers to be reporters and storytellers

Programmable Matter Takes Shape with Self-Folding Origami Sheets

Cutting methane emissions from cows by 25% with 3-NOP

Parasitic diseases get their first rapid and cheap bedside DNA test

An innovative pressure-sensing system for the next generation of smart materials

Speeding up material discovery from years to months

Scientists find mechanism to reset body clock

Removed: A major obstacle that has stood in the way of quantum computers becoming a reality

Squeezing Transistors Really Hard Generates Energy Savings

Unorthodox links to the internet

VIDEO Sir Ken Robinson – Changing Paradigms – Part 01

New approach for tuberculosis drugs

This is the beginning of the second Internet boom

A paper-thin loudspeaker that can turn any surface into an active audio source

A new era in food production: Protein from thin air?

Groundbreaking 3D printing approach dramatically transforms the exploration and creation of novel materials

A new stable and cost-cutting type of perovskite solar cell

Fighting food waste: New system uses wireless signals in the sub-terahertz band to determine fruit ripeness

Chinese language to dominate the internet

A cheap and eco-friendly steam generator to desalinate and purify water using sunlight

You Don’t Need An Energy Company When You Can Buy Power From Your Friends

Say hello to Generation C, the coupon shopaholics

The foundation for the energy-efficient production of hydrogen as a sustainable energy source

Terahertz waves and graphene together for the future of communication

The idea of an actual space tractor beam to help deal with space debris moves closer

Sonar Finds You The Most Relevant People In The Room

First Transistors Made Entirely of Nanocrystal Inks

The road is open to ultra-low-power microchips

Kessler Foundation

Opening the door to a mosquito-specific insecticide that would not harm beneficial bees or other pollinators

Creating realistic and predictable social interactions – in robots

Getting a grip on robotic grasp

The game-changer in the geopolitics of energy

Rechargeable aluminum batteries offer up to 10,000 error-free cycles

LiquidKeyboard said to make tablet touch-typing a might easier

Transparent wood windows could provide more even and consistent natural lighting and better energy efficiency than glass

New Device Allows Chikungunya Test Results in an Hour

A simple test that aims to tell patients how quickly they are aging

Drug May Offer New Approach to Treating Insomnia

A simple low cost and environmentally sound way to make ammonia

Switching light with a silver atom creates the world’s smallest integrated optical switch

Showing promise for a safe and effective treatment of intractable dog cancers

To Create Jobs, Nurture Start-Ups

Combating climate change

Carey Business School

If There Were No IP Restrictions, What Kind Of Mobile Devices Could You Build?

Graphene’s love affair with water

New Plastic that Disappears When You Want It To

Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA)

Adding ethanol to soil allows plants to better resist drought – including wheat and rice

Enormous blades longer than two football fields could lead to more offshore energy in U.S.

The 4 Factors That Make A Country Ideal For Innovation

Laws of physics may just be ‘local by-laws’

Video: the state of the art in robot perception and dexterity

Photoflow Collector Harvests Rainwater and Solar Power for Developing Countries

Green light for plant-based food packaging

UBC engineer helps pioneer flat spray-on optical lens

Scientists unveil ‘world’s first practical artificial leaf’

Tests performed by astronauts on the ISS suggest that bacteria can extract useful materials from rocks on Mars and the Moon

Augmented Reality: Bringing History and the Future to Life

Could microRNA be a treatment for inflammatory diseases such as asthma and cancer?

Learning to Chase Online Word of Mouth

New research dramatically reduces the amount of water needed to flush a conventional toilet

Stem cells as a future source for eco-friendly meat

Scientists Discover the Edge States of Graphene Nanoribbons

Nanoparticle can halt asthma and turn off peanut and other food allergies

Sahara Solar Breeder Project aims to provide 50 percent of the world’s electricity by 2050

QBotix system uses mobile robots to optimize solar panel orientation

An exciting new development for direct air capture of CO2 is twice as fast as existing systems

University of Central Florida (UCF)

Another step on the way to quantum networks

The Reproductive Revolution: How Women Are Changing the Planet’s Future

Wireless-powered network gets its fair share

Exploration drilling breakthrough could save up to 85 per cent of costs

Researchers Develop Technique to Remotely Control Cockroaches

Robofish Grace Glides with the Greatest of Ease

Researchers working on an invisibility cloak made of glass

New terahertz receiver enables ultra-fast 6G wireless communication at low cost

Micro-manufacturing breakthrough is wired for sound

New machine-learning algorithms and hardware improve AI energy efficiency by as much as two orders of magnitude

Army Seeks Clean Energy With new Power Station

Electricity and carbon dioxide could produce protein to alleviate world hunger

Graphene/Nanotube Hybrid is a Promising Material for Energy Storage, Electronics

A broad-spectrum malaria vaccine that can be freeze-dried and easily shipped

DNA rice breakthrough raises ‘green revolution’ hopes

Roboy, the ambassador of a new generation of intelligent machines, is brought to life

Big step in construction of computers for mimicking the human brain

Room temperature superconductivity moves a step closer

Want to Conserve Bats? There’s an App for That

A breakthrough structural battery design can provide “weightless” energy storage for vehicles and more

Researchers come up with a new and effective anonymity network in light of the Tor problem

Technical University of Berlin

Keeping the Flu Away

Brazil Faces Drop in Crop Productivity

Sensordrone adds more sensory capabilities to smartphones

University of Copenhagen

Are climate-friendly cattle farms possible with a genetic breakthrough on tropical grass?

Vaccine ‘Reprograms’ Pancreatic Cancers to Respond to Immunotherapy

When the Assembly Line Moves Online

Nasty bacteria get gagged with plastic

Could a new superlubricity coating reduce economic losses of 1 trillion dollars from friction and wear?

Detecting deepfake videos with up to 99% accuracy

University Health Network (UHN)

Matrix Key System lets you change your locks without changing your locks

Cavitation dose painting would allow precise delivery of a certain amount of drugs to an exact location

Turkeys inspire smartphone-capable early warning system for toxins

University of California San Diego School of Medicine

Helping pet owners make tough choices

Expand the Nobel Prize to Award Teams, Not Just Individuals

Major changes to the Danube ecosystem: A fast fish with a huge impact

Waterproof fabric anntena could save people lost at sea

Converting carbon dioxide into fuels and alcohols at efficiencies far greater than plants

Using Lightning to Recycle Concrete?

Siemens full-surface induction cooktop lets you arrange the pans wherever you like

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