Scientists have developed a way to control insects using solar powered backpacks. This can change the way we inspect the environment forever. This little guy and his backpack can tell us everything we want to know. (Photo via Nature)
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The team’s new fire detection system monitored a car fire during a planned test at the Sydney Harbour Tunnel. (Image Credit: Aruna Seneviratne.)
Conventional thermal imaging fire detection systems often detect safe levels of smoke or temperatu...
NASA’s Voyager 1 probe transmitted unrecognizable telemetry data through an onboard failed computer in May. The engineers recently fixed this issue by commanding it to send data through an operational computer. (Image Credit: NASA)
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MIT's new wearable sensor design detects and transmits vital biomarkers without an integrated chip. (Image Credit: MIT)
Stick-on wearable tech is in the news again this week. If only they could all team up?
Today's wearable sensors rely on b...
The team's biofilm collects energy from sweat evaporation and converts it into electricity to power wearable electronics. (Image Credit: Liu et al. / University of Massachusetts Amherst)
University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers recently e...
Scientists successfully synthesized graphyne, which could lead to fast electronics. (Image Credit: Y Hu et al., Nat Synth, 2022) Graphene has been hailed as the "wonder material" ever since its 2009 synthesis, serving applications in elec...
DNA storage has been proposed as a potential replacement for HDDs and SSDs. (Image Credit: Sangharsh Lohakare)
Companies could face a big data storage capacity problem in the future due to continually increasing demand. According to the latest ...
The Caltech team developed an optical switch that allows switching to occur in just 50 femtoseconds. (Image Credit: Y. Wang, N. Thu, and S. Zhou)
Optics could lead to faster speeds with less power and more task performances in computing. However, op...
The Nreal smart glasses provide wearers with subtitles based on what an individual says to them. This product could ultimately help hard-of-hearing individuals communicate with others. (Image Credit: XRAI Glass)
People with hearing disabilities tend...
Image showing ultra-fast photonics powering an analog deep-learning processor. (Image Credit: Credit: MIT/Ella Maru Studio, Murat Onen)
Creating something in our image. Not the first time we've heard about this.
Artificial synapses have be...
MIT researchers 3D-printed RPAs for orbiting satellites. These operate similarly to expensive semiconductor sensors. (Image Credit: MIT)
MIT researchers developed 3D-printed plasma sensors, also called retarding potential analyzers (RPAs) for ...
Methane-detection satellites can help slow down the effects of climate change. Companies can use the relevant data to fix leaks and prevent further methane emissions from escaping. (Image Credit: GHGSat)
Between 2016 and 2021, Southern California Ga...
A physical device contains a thousand artificial cilia hairs. Applying a voltage causes them to bend back and forth, which then pumps fluid at tens of microns per second. ( Image Credit: Ryan Young/Cornell University)
Cilia provide many benefits to ...
A thermal image of Jupiter from the James Webb Space Telescope. (Image Credit: NASA)
Before the James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) images were released, Reddit user Phonecloth decided to have a little fun by conjuring a fictional horror s...
Artificial photosynthesis could help solve the globally rising demand for food by growing crops in the dark. (Image Credit: Marcus Harland-Dunaway/UCR)
Humans and animals can’t survive without photosynthesis because the process churns out one ...
James Webb captured its first image, which shows the SMACS 0723 galaxy cluster in the distance universe along with numerous galaxies behind it. (Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)
President Joe Biden revealed the first colorized...
Image showing SbSI and SbSI: Sb2S3 photovoltaic devices. (Image Credit: Ryosuke Nishikubo)
Osaka University scientists recently discovered a new feature of solar cells developed from antimony sulfiodide: sulfide composite they called the wavele...
GASPCAS is the first satellite to use Raspberry Pi hardware. (Image Credit: Raspberry Pi)
On May 23rd, the Get Away Special Passive Attitude Control Satellite (GASPCAS) Cubesat re-entered the Earth's atmosphere after staying in space for 117 day...
Hello everyone. Today I completed something small but great at once. I first time successfully soldered extremely small sensor - Maxim Integrated MAX31875 I2C temperature sensor. This is sensor is provided as part of MAXESSENTIAL01 Sample Kit which y...
Mark Sheinin (left) and Dorian Chan helped develop the dual-camera system that can capture isolated audio of two guitars playing and reproduce the sound. (Image Credit: Carnegie Mellon University)
Carnegie Mellon University researchers developed a c...
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Interactive visualizations aren’t accessible for people relying on screen readers, which are used by millions of Americans suffering from complete or partial blindness, motion sensitivity, or learning...
The robotic vessels dive thousands of meters to gather temperature and salinity data every ten days while drifting on the ocean currents. (Image credit: Argo)
Earth’s oceans play an enormous role in regulating global weather. As the planet war...
The terahertz microchip can detect an object that can’t be seen due to obstruction, such as fog, smoke, or dust. (Image Credit: University of Texas)
The University of Texas and Oklahoma State University researchers recently unveiled a terahert...
Boston College physicists recently discovered an undetectable particle called the axial Higgins mode. (Image Credit: Nature)
Physicists at Boston College discovered a new particle, otherwise called “quantum excitation,” that could ultima...
The Prism Courage LNG Tanker relied on the Avikus HiNAS 2.0 system to autonomously navigate from Freeport (Gulf of Mexico) to the Boryeong LNG Terminal in South Chungcheong Province in Korea in 33 days. (Image credit: PR News Wire)
A self-steering s...
