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Torch Sensors’ Detection System Can Help Humans Fight Wildfires

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The solar-powered sensors detect wildfires before they spread. (Image Credit: Torch Sensors) Torch Sensors COO Vasya Tremsin saw a massive California wildfire in 2018 while driving from Lake Tahoe. He realized how monumental the wildfires became aft...
- 13 Sep 2024
Scientists Develop Groundbreaking Imaging System That Captures Events at 250 Billion Frames Per Second

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The fsLS-CUP system rapidly captures image sequences of soot scattering, PAH fluorescence, and incandescence in flames. (Image Credit: Yogeshwar Nath Mishra, Peng Wang, Florian J. Bauer, Murthy S. Gudipati, and Lihong V. Wang) Researchers from the C...
- 5 Sep 2024
Researchers Develop Smart Mask for Health Monitoring

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The EBCare mask measures biomarkers in the wearer’s breath. (Image Credit: Caltech/Wei Gao and Wenzheng Heng) Scientists at the California Institute of Technology recently created a smart mask prototype that monitors exhaled breath condensate ...
- 4 Sep 2024
Researchers Train Goo to Play Ping Pong

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(Image Credit: Perlinator/pixabay) In an attempt to better understand how biological neural networks (BNNs) work, the University of Reading researchers trained goo to play Pong. They achieved this by connecting the lump of ionic electro-active polym...
- 26 Aug 2024
Building the impedance measurement circuit

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Dear Members, I hope you are all doing well. I am a PhD student and completely new to circuit design. I need a compact-sized circuit and prefer not to use an impedance analyzer due to its bulkiness. I am looking to build a circuit capable of automati...
- 10 Aug 2024
Tech At the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics --- What to Expect

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Judges will rely on OMEGA’s SCAN’O’Vision ULTIMATE footage to help determine winners in close races. (Image Credit: OMEGA) I’m always a big fan of the Olympics when it rolls around. I’m particularly excited about this ...
- 26 Jul 2024
Engineers Develop LED Device to Kill Cancer Cells

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The LED device could help fight deep-seated cancers. (Image Credit: University of Notre Dame) Cancers near or on the skin can be effectively treated through specific light types. However, deep-seated cancers surrounded by blood, tissue, and bone are...
- 17 Jul 2024
Paradromics, a Neuralink Competitor, Is Set To Start Testing Its Brain Implant Next Year

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Paradromics' BCI, expected to launch in 2029, helps patients suffering from ALS, spinal injuries, and other conditions communicate and move. (Image Credit: Paradromics) Neuralink is facing some competition. Next year, neurotech start-up Paradrom...
- 27 Jun 2024
Gel Sensor Generates Voltage from Slight Vibrations

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Image a represents the alkyl–π liquid and an alkyl–π gel in vials. Meanwhile, image b shows the response of the alkyl–π gel vibration sensor to 17 Hz vibrations. (Image Credit: Takashi Nakanishi National Institute for Mate...
- 25 Jun 2024
APS Scientists Develop Soft Robots Equipped with Electronic Skins to Provide Internal Medical Treatments

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The soft robots are outfitted with electronic skin and artificial muscle, allowing them to sense their surroundings and adapt their movements in real-time. (Image credit: University of North Carolina via Nature) Soft robotics have been transforming ...
- 17 Jun 2024
Researchers Discover Ancient River Branch That Could Explain How the Pyramids Were Built

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This map displays the ancient river branch along with the pyramids. (Image Credit: Eman Ghoneim et al.) Over 4,000 years ago, Egypt's 31 pyramids and the Giza complex were built, and how it happened has always remained a big mystery. But the Uni...
- 29 May 2024
The Pitch Drop Experiment Is Still Going Strong

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The experiment has been running for nearly a century, slowly dropping viscous material along the way. (Image credit: Jsjsjs1111 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)) In 1927, Thomas Parnell started a laboratory experiment at the University...
- 24 May 2024
Researchers Produce Highest Resolution Map of The Human Brain

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Researchers captured this image of a sample obtained from the anterior temporal lobe. (Image Credit: Google Research & Lichtman Lab (Harvard University). Renderings by D. Berger (Harvard University)) Researchers from Harvard and Google Research ...
- 21 May 2024
Tiny Implant Allows Those with Movement Disorders to Move

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Rice University's tiny DOT implant stimulates the brain of a patient with a spine injury and movement disorder. (Image Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University) Neuromodulation helps treat pain, psychiatric, and movement disorders. Patients who suffe...
- 22 Apr 2024
: NASA’s Europa Clipper Could Find Life Beneath Europa’s Icy Surface

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NASA’s Europa Clipper launches this October to Europa to find out if the moon has an ocean that may support life. (Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) We all know about Europa --- one of Jupiter’s largest moons. Scientists studying it believ...
- 12 Apr 2024
Honeybees Trained to Detect Explosives

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(Image Credit: Aaron Fernando/Unsplash) For years, bees have been trained to sniff out explosives. They do this by using their antenna, receiving a food reward in response to detecting traces of bomb-making materials. This detection process is very ...
- 10 Apr 2024
Researchers Turn WiFi Router into A Device That Sees Through Walls

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By using WiFi signals and DensePose, a Wifi router can see 3D objects through a wall. (Image Credit: Carnegie Mellon University) Carnegie Mellon University researchers engineered a WiFi router to work with DensePose to detect humans and their movem...
- 27 Mar 2024
Neuralink’s First Patient with The Brain Chip Revealed and What He Can Do with It

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Noland Arbaugh is the first-ever Neuralink patient to receive a brain-chip implant. He uses it to play video games and chess. (Image Credit: Neuralink/X) I was wondering why they didn't share the patient's story last time I talked about Neur...
- 21 Mar 2024
First Patient to Receive a Neuralink Brain Chip Implant Controls a Computer Mouse

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Elon Musk says the first person to receive a brain implant can now control a computer mouse with their thoughts. (Image Credit: IJRO/pixabay) It’s strange how there is zero surfacing pictures or videos of the Neuralink implant patient. I suppo...
- 6 Mar 2024
Kyoto University’s Lignosay Could Launch Into Earth Orbit as Early as This Summer

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The wooden satellite can help reduce space junk when metal-based satellites burn up in the atmosphere. (Image Credit: Kyoto University) We've talked about how bad space garbage/debris can be many times. I do hope this makes an impact on how sate...
- 4 Mar 2024
Scientists Use LIDAR to Uncover 2,500-year-old Lost Cities in The Amazon Rainforest

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A LIDAR image unveils roads and platforms located in the Kunguints site in Ecuador's Upano valley. (Image Credit: ANTOINE DORISON AND STÉPHEN ROSTAIN) Scientists discovered a group of lost cities in the Ecuador valley of the Amazon rainf...
- 28 Feb 2024
The US Lands on the Moon With Interactive Machines’ Odysseus Spacecraft

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The spacecraft passed over the Moon’s near side after orbital insertion. (Image Credit: Intuitive Machines) It’s been a long time coming, but the United States has finally landed on the Moon since NASA’s Apollo 17 mission in Decemb...
- 23 Feb 2024
Researchers Develop a New Method That Distinguishes Between an Earthquake or Nuke Explosion

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(Image Credit: gerait/pixabay) The US, Russia, UK, France, China, India, Pakistan, and North Korea have performed over 2,000 nuke tests ever since the first one detonated in 1945. Nowadays, groups like the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organ...
- 22 Feb 2024
Millenium Camera to Provide a Glimpse of the Past for Viewers 1000 Years into the Future

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The camera features a thin sheet of 24k gold with a pinhole that allows light to slowly fade a photo-sensitive surface coated in many thin layers of rose madder. When future generations open its copper cylinder housing, they will see an image of Tuc...
- 9 Feb 2024
Busted: Massive Polluting Company Detected From Space

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NASA’s EMIT sensor detected this 2-mile-long methane plume in New Mexico. (Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) In 2023, Kayrros, an environmental intelligence company, used satellite data to determine exactly where 1,300 super-emitters of methane ...
- 7 Feb 2024