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High-performance thermoelectric devices for energy harvesting and cooling

Thermoelectric devices get real: Superfast new method to manufacture high-performance thermoelectric devices at low cost

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Challenges of our Age

Conversion of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide with 100 percent efficiency

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New research shows that egg whites can be transformed into a material capable of filtering water. Photo by Nathan Dumlao

Using egg whites to to remove that can cheaply remove salt and microplastics seawater with 98+ percent efficiency

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Researchers (left to right) Jordi Sort, Enric Menéndez and Zhengwei Tan in the lab at the UAB.

An artificial synapse may be the basis of a new computing paradigm, alternative to the one used by current computers

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Sample inside the analysis chamber of the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy system at the Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering

Challenges of our Age

The newest and most effective type of catalyst in the world to eliminate methane

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Peter Olsén, a researcher at KTH, holds up a sample piece of a new degradable plastic from wood. “These new materials, because of their high fiber content and degradable, matrix could be a game changer for a future circular material economy," he says. (Photo: courtesy of Peter Olsén)

Challenges of our Age

A new kind of wood-based degradable plastic could replace fossil-based materials used in home construction and furnishing

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CityU’s smart mask will help improve personal and public health. Credit: City University of Hong Kong

Tracking respiratory sounds with a smart mask to identify respiratory diseases

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In front of the sewage sludge biogas reactor in Walla Walla.

Converting sewage to biogas can produce electricity or be upgraded to renewable natural gas

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This artist’s concept drawing shows how the Towed-Glider Air Launch System, or TGALS, would work. A business jet-class aircraft would tow a remotely piloted glider with a launch vehicle mounted underneath it. Once released at about 40,000 feet, the glider uses its own small rocket motor to execute a pull-up maneuver, releasing the launch vehicle for ignition at an elevated flight path angle. Credits: NASA

Technology that could bring a space launch to any airport

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Engineered yeast has huge potential for addressing sustainability here and feeding astronauts not here

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$Exhaust from coal-fired power plants, at left, contains large quantities of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (purple tripartite molecules). Aluminum formate, a metal-organic framework whose structure is highlighted at right, can selectively capture carbon dioxide from dried flue gas conditions, potentially at a fraction of the cost of using other carbon filtration materials. Credit: B. Hayes/NIST$

Challenges of our Age

A new simple very low cost material to scrub CO2 for powerplant smokestacks

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Drone archery. Credit: Pavel Odinev/Skoltech

How to enable a user with no drone piloting experience to deploy an entire swarm within mere seconds

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High-performance thermoelectric devices for energy harvesting and cooling

Thermoelectric devices get real: Superfast new method to manufacture high-performance thermoelectric devices at low cost

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Conversion of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide with 100 percent efficiency

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1 week ago

New research shows that egg whites can be transformed into a material capable of filtering water. Photo by Nathan Dumlao

Using egg whites to to remove that can cheaply remove salt and microplastics seawater with 98+ percent efficiency

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1 week ago

Researchers (left to right) Jordi Sort, Enric Menéndez and Zhengwei Tan in the lab at the UAB.

An artificial synapse may be the basis of a new computing paradigm, alternative to the one used by current computers

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1 week ago

Sample inside the analysis chamber of the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy system at the Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering

The newest and most effective type of catalyst in the world to eliminate methane

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Peter Olsén, a researcher at KTH, holds up a sample piece of a new degradable plastic from wood. “These new materials, because of their high fiber content and degradable, matrix could be a game changer for a future circular material economy," he says. (Photo: courtesy of Peter Olsén)

A new kind of wood-based degradable plastic could replace fossil-based materials used in home construction and furnishing

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CityU’s smart mask will help improve personal and public health. Credit: City University of Hong Kong

Tracking respiratory sounds with a smart mask to identify respiratory diseases

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In front of the sewage sludge biogas reactor in Walla Walla.

Converting sewage to biogas can produce electricity or be upgraded to renewable natural gas

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1 week ago

Engineered yeast has huge potential for addressing sustainability here and feeding astronauts not here

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2 weeks ago

This artist’s concept drawing shows how the Towed-Glider Air Launch System, or TGALS, would work. A business jet-class aircraft would tow a remotely piloted glider with a launch vehicle mounted underneath it. Once released at about 40,000 feet, the glider uses its own small rocket motor to execute a pull-up maneuver, releasing the launch vehicle for ignition at an elevated flight path angle. Credits: NASA

Technology that could bring a space launch to any airport

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3 weeks ago

$Exhaust from coal-fired power plants, at left, contains large quantities of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (purple tripartite molecules). Aluminum formate, a metal-organic framework whose structure is highlighted at right, can selectively capture carbon dioxide from dried flue gas conditions, potentially at a fraction of the cost of using other carbon filtration materials. Credit: B. Hayes/NIST$

A new simple very low cost material to scrub CO2 for powerplant smokestacks

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Drone archery. Credit: Pavel Odinev/Skoltech

How to enable a user with no drone piloting experience to deploy an entire swarm within mere seconds

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IMAGINATION

New research shows that egg whites can be transformed into a material capable of filtering water. Photo by Nathan Dumlao

Using egg whites to to remove that can cheaply remove salt and microplastics seawater with 98+ percent efficiency

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4 weeks ago

Researchers (left to right) Jordi Sort, Enric Menéndez and Zhengwei Tan in the lab at the UAB.

An artificial synapse may be the basis of a new computing paradigm, alternative to the one used by current computers

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4 weeks ago

CityU’s smart mask will help improve personal and public health. Credit: City University of Hong Kong

Tracking respiratory sounds with a smart mask to identify respiratory diseases

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1 month ago

Engineered yeast has huge potential for addressing sustainability here and feeding astronauts not here

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1 month ago

Drone archery. Credit: Pavel Odinev/Skoltech

How to enable a user with no drone piloting experience to deploy an entire swarm within mere seconds

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1 month ago

Animation by Sara Levine | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

High-tech bubbles can detect Covid-causing virus in the air to send an immediate alert

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1 month ago

Possibilities

In front of the sewage sludge biogas reactor in Walla Walla.

Converting sewage to biogas can produce electricity or be upgraded to renewable natural gas

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1 month ago

This artist’s concept drawing shows how the Towed-Glider Air Launch System, or TGALS, would work. A business jet-class aircraft would tow a remotely piloted glider with a launch vehicle mounted underneath it. Once released at about 40,000 feet, the glider uses its own small rocket motor to execute a pull-up maneuver, releasing the launch vehicle for ignition at an elevated flight path angle. Credits: NASA

Technology that could bring a space launch to any airport

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1 month ago

A group of scientists with the University of Chicago have discovered a way to create a material in which the molecular fragments are jumbled and disordered, but can still conduct electricity extremely well. This goes against all of the rules we know about for conductivity. Above, an artist’s conception of the lattice. Illustration by Frank Wegloski

A fundamentally new design principle for electronics technology: Like conductive Play-Doh

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1 month ago

Magnetic bacteria (grey) can squeeze through narrow intercellular spaces to cross the blood vessel wall and infiltrate tumours. (Visualisations: Yimo Yan / ETH Zurich)

Using magnetic bacteria to convey drugs that kill tumors

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This is how the IR spectrometer works: The photodetector, fabricated on top of a surface optical waveguide, consists of a bottom gold electrode at the bottom functioning as a scattering center, a photoactive layer (consisting of colloidal mercury telluride – HgTe – quantum dots), and a top gold electrode. By moving the mirror, the measured photocurrent maps the light intensity of the standing wave. i.e. the IR light. A Fourier transformation of the measured signal gives the optical spectra. Image: Lars Lüder

Infrared detectors on-a-chip changes the whole spectrometer field

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The new wearable tactile rendering system can mimic touch sensations with high spatial resolution and a rapid response rate. Photo credit: Robotics X Lab and City University of Hong Kong

Virtualizing the sense of touch enables high-fidelity tactile perception for those wearing thick protective suits or gloves

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1 month ago

A fingertip-sized on-chip spectrometer in the foreground compared to a commercial benchtop-size spectrometer in the background. Photo: Aalto University

A fingertip-sized on-chip spectrometer offers new functions in all fields of science and industry

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Researchers have developed a two-prong approach to treating pancreatic cancer that has produced the best results ever seen in mouse trials.

A radioactive tumor implant has been shown to obliterate pancreatic cancer in mice

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Progress

High-performance thermoelectric devices for energy harvesting and cooling

Thermoelectric devices get real: Superfast new method to manufacture high-performance thermoelectric devices at low cost

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In the interim: Finding high-performance transport fuels that burn efficiently while releasing less CO2 into the atmosphere

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HuTics. In each image of the HuTics custom data set, the users’ hands are visualized in blue and the object in green. HuTics is used to train a machine learning model. Credit: Yatani and Zhou

A new ability to intuitively train machines using gestures

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1 month ago

From left, Michael Starke, Steven Campbell and Madhu Chinthavali of ORNL discuss the configuration of the power electronics hub demonstrated with hardware in the low-voltage lab at GRID-C. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

Giving power grids the flexibility they need: Tech to manage two-way power flow to commercial buildings

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The concept of this work. Direct use of crude hydrogen gas for catalytic hydrogenation of unsaturated molecules. CREDIT: Y. Hoshimoto

Exciting progress toward eliminating many of the remaining bottlenecks in using hydrogen as an energy carrier

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Immediate threat assessment on the farm: New mobile tool accurately detects viruses at pig farms in minutes

Immediate threat assessment on the farm: New mobile tool accurately detects viruses at pig farms in minutes

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Basic schematic showing how the M@P-siRNAsT/I of the present study can function as a PA imaging-guided RA therapeutic. PBNPs: Prussian blue nanoparticles; CIA: collagen-induced arthritis; PL: pulsed laser; PA: photoacoustic; ROS: reactive oxygen species; RA: rheumatoid arthritis. (Image by SIAT)

Enabling targeted treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

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2 months ago

Fungicides and protection of bananas against Panama disease

Breakthrough in the protection of bananas from Panama Disease

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2 months ago

FYI

Decontaminating and reusing N95 masks using dry heat

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The ability to decontaminate N95 masks more than 25 times

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Counting seated people in an area from outside using only WiFi

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September 14, 2021

For Your Consideration

Twilight observations with the U.S. Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a program of NSF’s NOIRLab, have enabled astronomers to spot three near-Earth asteroids, or NEAs, hiding in the glare of the sun. These NEAs are part of an elusive population that lurks inside the orbits of Earth and Venus. One of the asteroids is the largest object that is potentially hazardous to Earth to be discovered in the last eight years. Image: DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine

For Your Consideration

Asteroid defense update: Three large near-Earth objects lurking in the inner Solar System

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Experimental set-up for the training stage (aerial view). A nest was connected to a colored chamber via a tunnel. The chamber was connected to a flight arena with feeders providing ad libitum sucrose (S) or pollen (P); their positions were swapped each experimental day. The colored training chamber was either yellow or blue. One of the colored chambers contained movable balls and the other was empty. Baffles at the entrance of the colored chamber prevented bees seeing the presence/absence of objects. Only one colored chamber was presented at a time and they were alternated every 20 min (six times each) for a total of 2 h exposure for each color. One group of bees was trained with the yellow chamber containing balls and the other group with the blue chamber containing balls. This experimental stage was carried out on 2 consecutive days for each bee. Credit: Animal Behaviour (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.08.013

For Your Consideration

Bumble bees at play: Why do humans constantly underestimate the real intelligence of other creatures?

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Scans like these were used to identify the part of the brain responsible for the effortful prosocial behaviour

For Your Consideration

Altruistic behaviour takes place in a different part of the brain to similar activity to help oneself

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For Your Consideration

Is open science facing headwinds?

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4 months ago

For Your Consideration

We need a conversation around the use and regulation of brain-monitoring tech: Now

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For Your Consideration

Can bumblebees feel pain?

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Two of the study’s authors: Pauline Bohne (on the left) and Melanie Mark Credit: RUB, Marquard

For Your Consideration

Researchers have found a connection in the brain that is crucial for aggressive behaviour – in mice

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4 months ago

Sources of noise from deep-sea mining activities will span the entire water column.

For Your Consideration

Noise from one deep-sea mine alone could travel approximately 500 kilometers (roughly 311 miles)

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Challenges of our Age

Challenges of our Age

Conversion of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide with 100 percent efficiency

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Sample inside the analysis chamber of the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy system at the Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering

Challenges of our Age

The newest and most effective type of catalyst in the world to eliminate methane

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4 weeks ago

Peter Olsén, a researcher at KTH, holds up a sample piece of a new degradable plastic from wood. “These new materials, because of their high fiber content and degradable, matrix could be a game changer for a future circular material economy," he says. (Photo: courtesy of Peter Olsén)

Challenges of our Age

A new kind of wood-based degradable plastic could replace fossil-based materials used in home construction and furnishing

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4 weeks ago

$Exhaust from coal-fired power plants, at left, contains large quantities of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (purple tripartite molecules). Aluminum formate, a metal-organic framework whose structure is highlighted at right, can selectively capture carbon dioxide from dried flue gas conditions, potentially at a fraction of the cost of using other carbon filtration materials. Credit: B. Hayes/NIST$

Challenges of our Age

A new simple very low cost material to scrub CO2 for powerplant smokestacks

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1 month ago

Japanese larch tree seedlings grown without (left) and with (right) the use of a wavelength converting material (WCM) sheet. (Sunao Shoji et al. Scientific Reports. October 26, 2022)

Challenges of our Age

Accelerating plant growth with UV-to-red light converting films

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Image: Elegance Nairobi

Challenges of our Age

Things we are not paying enough attention to: An emerging ‘insect apocalypse’

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A world record by transmitting 1.8 petabits per second

Challenges of our Age

New and fastest ever data transmission method uses significantly less power and can help reduce the Internet’s climate footprint

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Challenges of our Age

Reducing reliance on rare earths in low-carbon technologies using “cosmic magnet” manufacturing

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Institutions: Recent Additions - WELCOME!

Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

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Autonomous University of Barcelona

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University of Udine

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Polytechnic University of Catalonia

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ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology

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Agency for Science Technology and Research

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Institutions: Just Updated

University of Notre Dame

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University of Twente

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Queen Mary University of London

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University of Trento

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Princeton University

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Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science

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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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Australian Institute of Marine Science

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