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The researchers suspended microporous nanocrystals in water and other aqueous solutions. Courtesy of Jarad Mason

Microporous water opens up enormous possibilities for biomedical and energy applications

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How about saving 20+ percent of heating energy normally expended with a self-learning algorithm?

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Light microscopy image of nanowires, 100 to 1,000 nanometers in diameter, grown from cesium germanium tribromide (CGB) on a mica substrate. The CGB nanowires are samples of a new lead-free halide perovskite solar material that is also ferroelectric. (Credit: Peidong Yang and Ye Zhang/Berkeley Lab)

A simpler less expensive approach to solar cell manufacturing is also lead free

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A new neural network trained by MIT PhD student Yuzhe Yang and postdoc Yuan Yuan assesses whether or not someone has Parkinson’s from their nocturnal breathing. Credits:Image courtesy of researchers.

AI can can detect the presence and severity of Parkinson’s from breathing patterns

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Encapsulating amidoximated nanofibrous aerogels within wood cell tracheids for efficient adsorption of uranium ions through cascading filtration. (Image by ZHANG Weihua)

Efficient harvesting of metal elements and even uranium from the sea using biological nanofibrils

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DARSHAN SAPKOTA An extended form of the protein aquaporin 4 (red) lines the edges of tiny blood vessels in the brain. Cell nuclei are visible in blue. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found a new druggable pathway that enhances the amount of long aquaporin 4 near blood vessels and increases the clearance of waste from the brain. The findings potentially could lead to new therapies to prevent Alzheimer’s dementia.

A new approach to clearing toxic waste from the brain

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New wearable microfluidic sensing technology can provide continuous monitoring for many health conditions

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Making stronger concrete with discarded PPE

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Harry Tuller and postdoctoral fellow Han Gil Seo in the Materials Research Laboratory. The two and colleagues report a simple way to significantly increase the lifetimes of fuel cells and other key devices. Photo: Hendrik Wulfmeier

A simple way to significantly increase the lifetimes of fuel cells brings them much closer to implementation

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Penn State researchers create mechanical integrated circuit materials from conductive and non-conductive rubber materials that sense and react to tactile input, such as force. Credit: Kelby Hochreither/Penn State.

Engineered material that can simultaneously sense, think and act upon mechanical stress?

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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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Challenges of our Age

A biobased alternative to PET gets much more efficient

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The researchers suspended microporous nanocrystals in water and other aqueous solutions. Courtesy of Jarad Mason

Microporous water opens up enormous possibilities for biomedical and energy applications

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How about saving 20+ percent of heating energy normally expended with a self-learning algorithm?

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A new indigo dyeing technology for blue jeans that is environmentally friendly

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Breakthrough: A mask that instantaneously deactivates SARS-COV-2

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Power-generating windows get solar vells that could last 30 years

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Could just one airborne virus particle be enough to infect you?

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A COVID-19 Nasal Vaccine?

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A new gene therapy that might help protect us from cancer and dementia

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If plants can be used as mRNA factories . . . could we grow and eat our own vaccines?

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Cooking 3D printed food with lasers

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Can AI can make better clinical decisions than humans?

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An unconventional way to fight the pandemic: algae

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IMAGINATION

The researchers suspended microporous nanocrystals in water and other aqueous solutions. Courtesy of Jarad Mason

Microporous water opens up enormous possibilities for biomedical and energy applications

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Penn State researchers create mechanical integrated circuit materials from conductive and non-conductive rubber materials that sense and react to tactile input, such as force. Credit: Kelby Hochreither/Penn State.

Engineered material that can simultaneously sense, think and act upon mechanical stress?

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1 month ago

Did we just discover an exoplanet covered with water about 100 light years from earth?

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The NeuRRAM chip is not only twice as energy efficient as state-of-the-art, it’s also versatile and delivers results that are just as accurate as conventional digital chips. (Image credit: David Baillot/University of California San Diego.)

NeuRRAM chip is twice as energy efficient and could bring the power of AI into tiny edge devices

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Scientists from Tohoku University harnessed plasma to produce a gas that help plant fight against wide-spread diseases. via Tohoku University

Plasma-produced gas may activate plant immunity against wide-spread diseases

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Former UC San Diego graduate student Stephanie Gamez created this artistic depiction of genetics and the fruit crop pest Drosophila suzukii.

Could CRISPR technology replace the need for insecticides and only suppress the target species population?

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Artificial leaves floating on the River Cam near King's College, Cambridge.

Floating ‘artificial leaves’ can generate clean fuels from sunlight and water and could operate on a large scale at sea

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$A diffractive camera design performs class-specific imaging of target objects with instantaneous all-optical erasure of other classes of objects. This diffractive camera consists of transmissive surfaces structured using deep learning to perform selective imaging of target classes of objects positioned at its input field-of-view. Using the same framework, the authors also demonstrated the design of class-specific permutation and class-specific linear transformation cameras, where the objects of a target data are pixel-wise permuted or linearly transformed following an arbitrarily selected transformation matrix for all-optical class-specific encryption, while the other classes of objects are irreversibly erased from the output image. The success of class-specific diffractive cameras was experimentally demonstrated using terahertz (THz) waves and 3D-printed diffractive layers that selectively imaged only one (2) of the MNIST handwritten digit dataset, all-optically erasing the other handwritten digits. CREDIT by Bijie Bai, Yi Luo, Tianyi Gan, Jingtian Hu, Yuhang Li, Yifan Zhao, Deniz Mengu, Mona Jarrahi, and Aydogan Ozcan$

A new paradigm to achieve privacy-preserving imaging by building a fundamentally new type of imager designed by AI

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Possibilities

Encapsulating amidoximated nanofibrous aerogels within wood cell tracheids for efficient adsorption of uranium ions through cascading filtration. (Image by ZHANG Weihua)

Efficient harvesting of metal elements and even uranium from the sea using biological nanofibrils

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4 weeks ago

DARSHAN SAPKOTA An extended form of the protein aquaporin 4 (red) lines the edges of tiny blood vessels in the brain. Cell nuclei are visible in blue. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found a new druggable pathway that enhances the amount of long aquaporin 4 near blood vessels and increases the clearance of waste from the brain. The findings potentially could lead to new therapies to prevent Alzheimer’s dementia.

A new approach to clearing toxic waste from the brain

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4 weeks ago

In a prior experiment, the team designed a novel conveyor to test their decontamination method in an industrial setting. As the eggs rotate on their long axis along the way, the entire surface of the eggshell was exposed to pulsed ultraviolet light energy. Credit: Josh Casser/Penn State.

Novel food decontamination method uses pulse light technology to effectively kill pathogens

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Vanadium Dioxide (VO2), a compound capable of “remembering” the entire history of previous external stimuli. CREDIT: POWERlab / 2022 EPFL

A material that can learn like the brain

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Hydrogen fuel cell advance uses almost 40% less platinum per vehicle

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The new moisture-driven electricity generation device invented by NUS researchers capitalises on the difference in moisture content of the wet and dry regions of the carbon-coated fabric to create an electric current. Sea salt is used as a moisture absorbent for the wet region.

Generating electricity from air moisture with a self-charging ultra-thin device yields a high electrical output

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Dr. Maximilian Kückelhaus presents the new method in a dry-run training session. The operations robot (right) is networked with a robotic microscope (left). Credit: WWU - Peter Leßmann

The first completely robot-supported microsurgical operations on humans

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Graphene can be used to cost effectively recycle gold from electronic waste

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Progress

How about saving 20+ percent of heating energy normally expended with a self-learning algorithm?

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Light microscopy image of nanowires, 100 to 1,000 nanometers in diameter, grown from cesium germanium tribromide (CGB) on a mica substrate. The CGB nanowires are samples of a new lead-free halide perovskite solar material that is also ferroelectric. (Credit: Peidong Yang and Ye Zhang/Berkeley Lab)

A simpler less expensive approach to solar cell manufacturing is also lead free

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4 weeks ago

A new neural network trained by MIT PhD student Yuzhe Yang and postdoc Yuan Yuan assesses whether or not someone has Parkinson’s from their nocturnal breathing. Credits:Image courtesy of researchers.

AI can can detect the presence and severity of Parkinson’s from breathing patterns

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4 weeks ago

New wearable microfluidic sensing technology can provide continuous monitoring for many health conditions

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1 month ago

Making stronger concrete with discarded PPE

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Harry Tuller and postdoctoral fellow Han Gil Seo in the Materials Research Laboratory. The two and colleagues report a simple way to significantly increase the lifetimes of fuel cells and other key devices. Photo: Hendrik Wulfmeier

A simple way to significantly increase the lifetimes of fuel cells brings them much closer to implementation

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Simple rubber band fix for surgical masks could help prevent thousands of infections and perhaps save thousands of lives

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Could solid-state refrigerants become a viable replacement for current air conditioning and other cooling technologies?

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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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For Your Consideration

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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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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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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Logging in Tasmania, by Matt Palmer

For Your Consideration

The world’s first biodiversity-adjusted sovereign credit ratings

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For Your Consideration

The impact of rocket launches may have a greater climate effect than the aviation industry

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Challenges of our Age

Challenges of our Age

A biobased alternative to PET gets much more efficient

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The three primary constituents of the battery are aluminum (left), sulfur (center), and rock salt crystals (right). All are domestically available Earth-abundant materials not requiring a global supply chain.

Challenges of our Age

A new kind of grid storage battery made entirely from abundant and inexpensive materials

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After two weeks without water, wheat did not survive when soil was pretreated with water (left), but thrived when the soil was pretreated with 3% ethanol (right). The same was true for rice and the model plant Arabidopsis. CREDIT: RIKEN

Challenges of our Age

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

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Challenges of our Age

Who knew? A serious sulfur shortage looms as the world decarbonizes

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Sandia National Laboratories’ innovative design for offshore wind: no heavy tower, instead wind blades pulled taut with guy wires. (Illustration by Brent Haglund)

Challenges of our Age

A radically new idea for offshore wind turbines

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Light filtering through soybean canopy. Credit: Allie Arp/RIPE project

Challenges of our Age

Bioengineering better photosynthesis increases yields in food crops for the first time ever

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Challenges of our Age

Is there nowhere on Earth where the rain would be safe to drink?

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Left: methane concentrations measured by Tropomi during 2018-2019 around Buenos Aires, Argentina. Right: zoom-in by GHGSat on April 19th 2021, showing methane plumes from the landfill in the city centre. The wind direction is given by the white arrow. SRON/GHGSat, contains Copernicus Sentinel data (2018–2019), processed by SRON

Challenges of our Age

Methane satellites find landfills that emit tens of tons of methane per hour

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Institutions: Recent Additions - WELCOME!

Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology

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South China Normal University

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Wuhan University of Technology

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Yunnan University

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Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy

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Idaho National Laboratory

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Institutions: Just Updated

Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

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University of California Berkeley

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Boston University

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Rutgers University

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Massachusetts General Hospital

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Mayo Clinic

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Institutions: Most Visited at InnovationToronto.org

Stanford University

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Columbia University

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Wageningen University and Research

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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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Kansas State University

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Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Aalto University

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Curtin University

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University of Kentucky

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The Rockefeller University

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University of Rochester

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Australian Institute of Marine Science

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