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Peng Zhou uses a large lens to concentrate sunlight onto the water-splitting catalyst. Outdoors, the device was ten times more efficient than previous efforts at solar water splitting. Photo: Brenda Ahearn/Michigan Engineering, Communications and Marketing

Challenges of our Age

Making solar fuels out of thin air: Harvesting water from the air for conversion into hydrogen fuel

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Challenges of our Age

A new catalyst is 10 times more efficient than previous sun-powered water-splitting devices of its kind

3 months ago

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Solar islands could provide our planet with abundant energy. They could also serve as charging stations for ships or be used to produce electrical power for floating factories that produce renewable fuels like hydrogen or methanol. Illustration: Kasper Pindsle, pinkas.no

Challenges of our Age

Solar islands could provide our planet with abundant energy

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Team: Gina Myers (BIOE), Arthur Labarre (CEE), Weiheng (Jarvis) Lu (IEOR), Priyaj Mehta (ME), Ronggen Chen (ME) Advisor: Tarek Zohdi (ME)

Challenges of our Age

Floating solar modules offer numerous advantages over land-based solar power installations

3 months ago

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Cells treated with the compound (right) showed reduced infection from the Omicron variant compared to untreated cells (left). (Photo credit: Dr. Selvarani Vimalanathan, Molecular Biomedicine)

Challenges of our Age

A compound shows early promise at halting infections from a range of coronaviruses, including all variants of SARS-CoV-2 and the common cold

3 months ago

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Spray-on sensory system which consists of printed, bio-compatible nanomesh directly connected with wireless Bluetooth module and further trained through meta-learning CREDIT: Kyun Kyu “Richard” Kim, Bao Group, Stanford U.

A spray-on electrically active smart skin can rapidly decipher typing, sign language, even the shape of a familiar object

3 months ago

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Brown algae are particularly widespread on rocky shores in temperate and cold latitudes and there absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air worldwide Credit: Hagen Buck-Wiese/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

Challenges of our Age

The great potential of brown algae for climate protection

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Improved early detection and analysis of airborne bacteria and viruses with new liquid-coated air filters

3 months ago

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An off-the-shelf immunotherapy for myeloma called talquetamab is successful in 70 percent of patients

3 months ago

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The rise of hygroelectricity: Perfecting the conversion of atmospheric humidity into electricity

3 months ago

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Compared to gauze dressing, a “gel sheet” made from a gelatin-like material can quickly soak up more blood without dripping, as shown in the video. The sheets may one day help clean up blood during surgeries or stop bleeding from wounds. CREDIT: Matter/Choudhary et al.

Could this hydrogel invention drive the ubiquitous paper towel to extinction?

3 months ago

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Humidity responsive ON/OFF holographic/color-structured display CREDIT: POSTECH

Humidity-responsive holographic images

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A new catalyst is 10 times more efficient than previous sun-powered water-splitting devices of its kind

3 months ago

4 Views

3 months ago

Peng Zhou uses a large lens to concentrate sunlight onto the water-splitting catalyst. Outdoors, the device was ten times more efficient than previous efforts at solar water splitting. Photo: Brenda Ahearn/Michigan Engineering, Communications and Marketing

Making solar fuels out of thin air: Harvesting water from the air for conversion into hydrogen fuel

3 months ago

7 Views

3 months ago

Solar islands could provide our planet with abundant energy. They could also serve as charging stations for ships or be used to produce electrical power for floating factories that produce renewable fuels like hydrogen or methanol. Illustration: Kasper Pindsle, pinkas.no

Solar islands could provide our planet with abundant energy

3 months ago

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3 months ago

Team: Gina Myers (BIOE), Arthur Labarre (CEE), Weiheng (Jarvis) Lu (IEOR), Priyaj Mehta (ME), Ronggen Chen (ME) Advisor: Tarek Zohdi (ME)

Floating solar modules offer numerous advantages over land-based solar power installations

3 months ago

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Decoupled electrolysis of water compared with the direct electrolysis of water uses a lot less energy

August 25, 2021

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A study at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles shows that engaging in VR can reduce pain and anxiety in children undergoing painful medical procedures and reduce the need for anesthesia.

Virtual reality reduces pain and anxiety in children: A Game Changer

August 26, 2021

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A new sensor could allow researchers to detect the rare earth element terbium from complex environmental samples, such as acid mine drainage — pictured here polluting a Pennsylvania stream. Credit: Rachel A. Brennan, Penn State.Credit: Gellert Mezei

Targeting rare earth elements in mining and other waste with a new sensor approach

August 26, 2021

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A nanojar traps a carbonate ion (center) to remove it from water. Credit: Gellert Mezei

Capturing dissolved carbon dioxide and toxic ions from water with “nanojars”

August 26, 2021

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Cells treated with the compound (right) showed reduced infection from the Omicron variant compared to untreated cells (left). (Photo credit: Dr. Selvarani Vimalanathan, Molecular Biomedicine)

A compound shows early promise at halting infections from a range of coronaviruses, including all variants of SARS-CoV-2 and the common cold

3 months ago

5 Views

3 months ago

Spray-on sensory system which consists of printed, bio-compatible nanomesh directly connected with wireless Bluetooth module and further trained through meta-learning CREDIT: Kyun Kyu “Richard” Kim, Bao Group, Stanford U.

A spray-on electrically active smart skin can rapidly decipher typing, sign language, even the shape of a familiar object

3 months ago

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3 months ago

Brown algae are particularly widespread on rocky shores in temperate and cold latitudes and there absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air worldwide Credit: Hagen Buck-Wiese/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

The great potential of brown algae for climate protection

3 months ago

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3 months ago

Improved early detection and analysis of airborne bacteria and viruses with new liquid-coated air filters

3 months ago

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IMAGINATION

Spray-on sensory system which consists of printed, bio-compatible nanomesh directly connected with wireless Bluetooth module and further trained through meta-learning CREDIT: Kyun Kyu “Richard” Kim, Bao Group, Stanford U.

A spray-on electrically active smart skin can rapidly decipher typing, sign language, even the shape of a familiar object

3 months ago

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Meta-Optics: The disruptive technology set to bring the stuff of science-fiction stories into everyday devices

3 months ago

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Caption:Researchers came up with a way to efficiently plan physically plausible assembly motions and sequences for real-world assemblies. Credits:Image courtesy of MIT CSAIL.

A new algorithm for the automatic assembly of products encompassing thousands of objects

3 months ago

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The ice plant succulent shown here can become a living solar cell and power a circuit using photosynthesis. Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2022, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c15123

Living plant bio-solar cells create electricity from photosynthesis

3 months ago

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PhD researcher Yemima Ehrnst holding the acoustic device the research team used to boost the hydrogen production, through electrolysis to split water. Credit: RMIT University

Boosting hydrogen production: Using high-frequency vibrations to release 14 times more hydrogen compared with standard electrolysis

3 months ago

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The thin-film solar cells weigh about 100 times less than conventional solar cells while generating about 18 times more power-per-kilogram. Credit: Melanie Gonick, MIT

Ultra thin ultra light fabric photovoltaics would only add about 20 kilograms (44 pounds) to the roof of a house

4 months ago

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Using a beam of harmless infrared light and an algorithm to detect malaria

4 months ago

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In nature when wood dries out from being soaked, it gives off an electrical charge. Researchers at KTH in Sweden showed that if the wood's composition is nanoengineered the right way, the phenomenon can be turned into a power source. CREDIT: David Callahan/KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Who knew? Harvesting electricity from wood soaking in water

4 months ago

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Possibilities

An off-the-shelf immunotherapy for myeloma called talquetamab is successful in 70 percent of patients

3 months ago

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Compared to gauze dressing, a “gel sheet” made from a gelatin-like material can quickly soak up more blood without dripping, as shown in the video. The sheets may one day help clean up blood during surgeries or stop bleeding from wounds. CREDIT: Matter/Choudhary et al.

Could this hydrogel invention drive the ubiquitous paper towel to extinction?

3 months ago

8 Views

Humidity responsive ON/OFF holographic/color-structured display CREDIT: POSTECH

Humidity-responsive holographic images

3 months ago

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Nanoantenna phosphors comprising of a periodic array of nanoparticles on the phosphor plate can tailor the spatial radiation pattern of the photoluminescence for smaller, lighter and brighter solid-state lighting devices. CREDIT: KyotoU/Shunsuke Murai

Nanoantennas are set to become the world’s go-to light source

3 months ago

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A nanostructured sensor that also strengthens, de-ices, and monitors aircraft wings, wind turbine blades, bridges

3 months ago

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Oncolytic DNA hairpin pairs (oHPs) are introduced to the cancer cell. When the oHPs encounter the tumor-causing overexpressed microRNA (miRNA), they unravel to connect with the miRNA and each other to form longer DNA strands. These elongated strands then trigger an immune response, the body’s built-in defense mechanism, which inhibits further tumor growth. CREDIT: 2022 Akimitsu Okamoto

Killing cancer with artificial DNA

3 months ago

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Therapy delivered over the internet really can help people with anger and aggression issues

3 months ago

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Restoring damaged neurons with nano-magnets

3 months ago

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Progress

Improved early detection and analysis of airborne bacteria and viruses with new liquid-coated air filters

3 months ago

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Princeton researchers have found that human-language descriptions of tools can accelerate the learning of a simulated robotic arm lifting and using a variety of tools. Animation by the researchers; GIF by Neil Adelantar

Using words to teach robots

3 months ago

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A winged robot that can land like a bird could significantly expand the scope of robot-assisted tasks

3 months ago

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Hope for alleviating long Covid brain fog using a combination of a combination of guanfacine and N-acetylcysteine

3 months ago

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A nasal spray for sleep apnea?

4 months ago

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A safe, affordable variant-proof Covid drug in pill form

4 months ago

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Professor Andrea Morello explains how the Maxwell's Demon thought experiment was analogous to his team's achievement by selecting only cool electrons for quantum computations. Photo: Richard Freeman/UNSW

Another big step for quantum computing: A 20x improvement method to reset a quantum computer

4 months ago

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A potential tool for protecting crops from mercury pollution and possible mercury remediation

4 months ago

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FYI

Decontaminating and reusing N95 masks using dry heat

January 10, 2022

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The ability to decontaminate N95 masks more than 25 times

January 10, 2022

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Counting seated people in an area from outside using only WiFi

September 14, 2021

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For Your Consideration

The viral language-model artificial intelligence app recently released by OpenAI holds great promise and frightening potential, says Tinglong Dai, an AI expert at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

For Your Consideration

A remarkably powerful AI Chatbot: The promise and peril of ChatGPT

3 months ago

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For Your Consideration

Ear recognition hits 97.25 percent accuracy to identify you

3 months ago

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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

5 months ago

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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?

5 months ago

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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

7 months ago

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For Your Consideration

Is open science facing headwinds?

7 months ago

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For Your Consideration

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

8 months ago

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For Your Consideration

Can bumblebees feel pain?

8 months ago

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Challenges of our Age

Peng Zhou uses a large lens to concentrate sunlight onto the water-splitting catalyst. Outdoors, the device was ten times more efficient than previous efforts at solar water splitting. Photo: Brenda Ahearn/Michigan Engineering, Communications and Marketing

Challenges of our Age

Making solar fuels out of thin air: Harvesting water from the air for conversion into hydrogen fuel

3 months ago

7 Views

Challenges of our Age

A new catalyst is 10 times more efficient than previous sun-powered water-splitting devices of its kind

3 months ago

4 Views

Solar islands could provide our planet with abundant energy. They could also serve as charging stations for ships or be used to produce electrical power for floating factories that produce renewable fuels like hydrogen or methanol. Illustration: Kasper Pindsle, pinkas.no

Challenges of our Age

Solar islands could provide our planet with abundant energy

3 months ago

4 Views

Team: Gina Myers (BIOE), Arthur Labarre (CEE), Weiheng (Jarvis) Lu (IEOR), Priyaj Mehta (ME), Ronggen Chen (ME) Advisor: Tarek Zohdi (ME)

Challenges of our Age

Floating solar modules offer numerous advantages over land-based solar power installations

3 months ago

6 Views

Cells treated with the compound (right) showed reduced infection from the Omicron variant compared to untreated cells (left). (Photo credit: Dr. Selvarani Vimalanathan, Molecular Biomedicine)

Challenges of our Age

A compound shows early promise at halting infections from a range of coronaviruses, including all variants of SARS-CoV-2 and the common cold

3 months ago

5 Views

Brown algae are particularly widespread on rocky shores in temperate and cold latitudes and there absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air worldwide Credit: Hagen Buck-Wiese/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

Challenges of our Age

The great potential of brown algae for climate protection

3 months ago

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Challenges of our Age

Reducing the carbon footprint of biogas by 36 percent by using air-source heat pumps

3 months ago

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With the novel COMPASS test, antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 can be detected in a few seconds. (Image: Dr. Patrick Vogel / Universität Würzburg)

Challenges of our Age

A newly developed rapid test needs only a few seconds to reliably detect pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2.

3 months ago

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Institutions: Recent Additions - WELCOME!

UC Berkeley College of Engineering

3 months ago

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The University of Bremen (German Universität Bremen) is a public university in Bremen, Germany, with approximately 23,500 people from 115 countries

University of Bremen

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Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

3 months ago

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University of Maine

3 months ago

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Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

3 months ago

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Carey Business School

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Institutions: Just Updated

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

October 3, 2021

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University of Michigan

September 23, 2021

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UC Berkeley College of Engineering

3 months ago

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Chinese Academy of Sciences

October 1, 2021

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Qingdao University of Technology

August 25, 2021

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Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics

August 25, 2021

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Stanford University

September 13, 2021

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3 months ago

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

February 2, 2022

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Columbia University

December 14, 2021

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8 months ago

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

January 7, 2022

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University of Rochester

February 17, 2022

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Kansas State University

February 15, 2022

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Curtin University

February 26, 2022

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Massachusetts General Hospital

December 26, 2021

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3 months ago

Aalto University

October 3, 2021

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4 months ago

The Rockefeller University

February 20, 2022

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Wageningen University and Research

October 4, 2021

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University of Cambridge

October 10, 2021

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