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Korean Researchers Develop Injectable Bioelectrodes

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(Image Credit: Professor Jae Young Lee from GIST, Korea) Implantable bioelectrodes require the correct material for performance and biocompatibility due to their contact and interactions with living tissues. Conductive hydrogels have been proposed a...
- 12 May 2023
Space-Madness Machine: NASA Unveils Mars Alpha Dune, a Mars-like Environment

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The sandbox outside NASA's Mars Dune Alpha structure contains red sand. (Image Credit: NASA) NASA has built Mars Dune Alpha, a 1,700 sq. foot structure designed for four participants to see how they manage in Mars-like conditions. In June, these...
- 1 May 2023
Seeed Xiao ESP32S3 Sense

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The Seeed Xiao is my favorite small form factor development board. I have quite a few of the original SAMD21 boards. They're great for prototyping sensors and the family has expanded to use many of the common MCU types - SAMD21, RP2040, n...
- 30 Apr 2023
MouthPad Is A Tongue-Driven Interface Providing Control Over Bluetooth-Enabled Devices

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The tongue-driven interface by Augmental allows users to control their Bluetooth-enabled electronics with their tongue. (Image Credit: Augmental) Augmental, an MIT Media Lab spin-off based in San Francisco, California, is introducing MouthPad, a cus...
- 28 Apr 2023
Scientists Refine MRI to Generate the Sharpest Image of a Brain

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The researchers produced a colorful scan of a mouse's brain, allowing them to view neural network connections. (Image Credit: Duke Center for In Vivo Microscopy) MRI imaging is useful for providing visualizations of soft tissue. However, MRI ima...
- 26 Apr 2023
Humane Unveiled New Phone Projector That Could Change Mobile Tech

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The projector phone features sensors and cameras to project visual interfaces on a surface. (Image Credit: Zarif Ali/TED) Apple’s mixed reality headset has stirred up a lot of excitement among tech enthusiasts due to its potential. Even then, ...
- 24 Apr 2023
Texas A&M University researchers demonstrate meminductance

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Texas A&M University engineers exhibited meminductance with their latest new circuit element discovery called the meminductor. Other researchers discovered two different types, including the memristor in 2008 and the memcapacitor in 2019. These ...
- 21 Apr 2023
Will adding Iron Nanoparticles to Our Oceans Help Mitigate the Climate Crisis?

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Adding iron nanoparticles to the ocean’s surface could help plankton growth. (Image Credit: Pexels/pixabay) Climate experts say that significantly reducing the number of greenhouse gasses that escape into the atmosphere must be achieved to pr...
- 18 Apr 2023
MIT Engineers Propose A New Way To Fight Climate Change --- With The Ocean!

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Extracting carbon dioxide from the oceans would help decrease acidification, allowing coral reefs to thrive. (Image Credit: Hiroko Yoshi) Carbon capture technology has become a controversial topic over the past little while. The U.S. Department of E...
- 11 Apr 2023
Kits! Amazon Sidewalk Now Available For More Developers

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Amazon is officially opening Sidewalk to more developers. (Image Credit: Amazon) Dev kit alert! This seems like it might be fun. In 2019, Amazon unveiled its Sidewalk technology, a low-bandwidth wireless network for IoT device connectivity. These I...
- 6 Apr 2023
Researchers Taught Goldfish to Drive Their Tanks On Land, Again

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Just last year, Israeli researchers revealed that goldfish learned to drive fish tanks, achieved through fish-operated vehicles (FOVs) that had aquariums mounted atop motorized wheels. It also has a small camera connected to a Raspberry Pi to track ...
- 5 Apr 2023
Astronomers ask to prohibit mega-constellation satellites

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Mega-constellation satellites could directly impact our ability to observe the night skies. (Image Credit: Paul Volkmar/Unsplash) I'm all for technological advancement, but this one I'm really on the fence about. Astronomers say low e...
- 24 Mar 2023
New chip technology is so small that it can be mounted on a tooth to monitor saliva

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Silicon Labs’ tooth sensor monitors a patient’s saliva. (Image Credit: Silicon Labs) Making wearable devices smaller has become increasingly challenging, especially when it involves battery life. Silicon Labs developed a tiny xG27 chipse...
- 20 Mar 2023
Physicists claim they achieved quantum energy teleportation, and the first law of thermodynamics gets a revamp

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Tohoku University physicists say they used quantum technology to teleport energy, allowing them to extract it from a vacuum. This builds on a 2008 study that involved theoretical physicist Masahiro Hotta producing negative energy in a quantum vacuum...
- 15 Mar 2023
Stroke Victim Can Move Her Arm Thanks To Electrical Pulse Stimulation

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33-year-old stroke victim Heather Rendulic lifted a can of soup with the help of the implanted electrode. (Image Credit: Tim Betler, UPMC and University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences) An electrode distributing electrical pulses to a specific area on...
- 1 Mar 2023
Light sensor can reach 200% quantum efficiency

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Riccardo Ollearo demonstrates the photodiode’s ability to sense the signal from his finger. From there, the screen shows his heart rate. (Image Credit: Bart van Overbeeke) The Eindhoven University of Technology researchers developed photodio...
- 22 Feb 2023
Researchers can now 3D map lightning strikes

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Researchers can now map lightning in 3D. (Image Credit: Michał Mancewicz/Unsplash) Studying lightning strikes has never been an easy task. Researchers typically use "radio frequency interferometry," which involves using an array of antenna...
- 21 Feb 2023
Copper wire sandwich promises to solve thermal transport issues in small devices

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The flexible material improves thermal transport within a device. (Image Credit: Carnegie Mellon University, College of Engineering) Smaller and more powerful devices have a greater risk of overheating and burning out. Although cooling solution tech...
- 17 Feb 2023
Reconfigurable patch antenna serves a crucial role in future communication networks

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The circular patch antenna prototype changes its frequency from high to low. (Image Credit: Jeff Xu/Penn State) Reconfigurable antennas will serve a crucial role in future communication networks, such as 6G. However, existing reconfigurable antennas...
- 15 Feb 2023
Latest see-through technology uses WiFi signals to detect humans behind a wall

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The technology detects human movements through walls. (Image Credit: Carnegie Mellon University) Just because you can, should you make it? Seems like something that can/will be abused. Carnegie Mellon University researchers leveraged WiFi routers to...
- 24 Jan 2023
LeviPrint Uses Acoustic Levitation for Contactless Fabrication

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LeviPrint uses sound to levitate objects and a robotic arm and liquid dispenser to manufacture complex objects. (Image credit: UpnaLab via YouTube) Researchers from UpnaLab, Smart Cities Institute divisions of the Public University of Navarre, Ultr...
- 17 Jan 2023
Cochlear implants have restored hearing for hearing loss individuals

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People with hearing loss could benefit from cochlear implants. (Mohamed_hassan/pixabay) The WHO says over 1.5 billion people globally have hearing loss, and that number is expected to increase to 2.5 billion by 2050. Plenty of research has been per...
- 11 Jan 2023
Researchers achieve quantum mechanics breakthrough to see objects without viewing them

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Researchers used quantum coherence to perform interaction-free experiments. (Image Credit: Mikko Raskinen/Aalto University) Finally observe without influencing? Aalto University researchers discovered a new and effective technique to perform interac...
- 10 Jan 2023
Playstation’s Accessibility Controller, a Great Product You Can’t Get

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It’s shocking it took PlayStation this long to add an accessibility controller. X-Box has had one for almost a half-decade. Nevertheless, Sony announced their effort in this space at CES 2023. They are dubbing the controller “Project Leo...
- 6 Jan 2023
A children's crystal growing kit contained a time crystal

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(Image Credit: Yale University) Yale University physicists discovered time crystals, "a form of matter that ticks in response to an electromagnetic pulse," in a children's crystal-growing toy kit. Two studies were published in Physical...
- 4 Jan 2023