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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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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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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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A self-cleaning plastic pathogen-repellent wrap sheds both bacteria and viruses

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A promising approach to controlling methane emissions and removing it from the air

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Producing eco-friendly micro-supercapacitors with fallen leaves

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A fully off-grid photochemistry system enables fine chemical production in the most remote locations on Earth

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The potential of precision fermentation technology to increase the sustainability of protein production

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Schematic diagram of the preparation of the wood nanocellulose-derived nano-semiconductor with customizable electrical properties and 3D structures

Opening the door for sustainable electronics that are completely derived from plant materials

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Could manure be used to make clean drinking water?

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Real cybersecurity using only a single quantum bit gets real

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

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A COVID-19 Nasal Vaccine?

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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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An unconventional way to fight the pandemic: algae

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The dawn of “intelligent” furniture?

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Spotting single diseased cells with artificial intelligence

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Is cosmic concrete made from space dust and astronaut blood the basis for habitats on the Moon and Mars?

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Could a CRISPR-based genetic engineering system safely suppress or even eliminate mosquito populations?

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Increasing crop productivity by 10 to 20 percent with a dynamic photosynthesis model

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A self-injecting pill taken orally could deliver similar or even better results comparable to standard injections

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A self-cleaning plastic pathogen-repellent wrap sheds both bacteria and viruses

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A promising approach to controlling methane emissions and removing it from the air

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Producing eco-friendly micro-supercapacitors with fallen leaves

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A fully off-grid photochemistry system enables fine chemical production in the most remote locations on Earth

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The potential of precision fermentation technology to increase the sustainability of protein production

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Schematic diagram of the preparation of the wood nanocellulose-derived nano-semiconductor with customizable electrical properties and 3D structures

Opening the door for sustainable electronics that are completely derived from plant materials

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5 months ago

Could manure be used to make clean drinking water?

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Real cybersecurity using only a single quantum bit gets real

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Image reconstruction computing allowing for a lens-less camera, which is ultra-thin, lightweight, and low-cost

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Sunlight powered lasers

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A new material could replace rare metals and lead to more economical production of carbon-neutral fuels

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Computational model of gold nanoparticle functionalized with left-handed enantiomers of cysteine and phenylalanine CREDIT: André Farias de Moura

Vaccines can be made over 25 percent more effective by adding left-handed chiral gold nanoparticles

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A new liquid metal-alginate ink can be 3D printed directly onto clothing, producing smart clothes that sense touch, monitor motion, interact with computers and manage temperature.

The dawn of 3D printing smart clothes?

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A deep learning algorithm to identify bacteria in seconds instead of hours

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A new process to recover rare earth elements from waste

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Making important raw materials for fine chemicals out of carbon dioxide really works

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New micro flying robot does away with the need for conventional motors and gears

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MIT engineers developed a telerobotic system to help surgeons remotely treat patients experiencing stroke or aneurysm. With a modified joystick, surgeons may control a robotic arm at another hospital to operate on a patient. Courtesy of the researchers

Treating stroke remotely with a joystick-operated robot during the critical time window after a stroke begins

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Small-scale regenerative ocean farms

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Customized to the patient: Novel plug-and-play organ on a chip

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Could using AI with smart thermostats achieve indoor energy savings of between 26 and 49 percent?

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Anticancer drugs that assemble inside the body to avoid indiscriminate tissue damage could be the next big thing in cancer therapies

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A portable desalination unit that generates clear, clean drinking water without the need for filters or high-pressure pumps

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Mimicing the information processing mechanism of the human nervous system with artificial sensory neurons

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Sonogenetics could allow non-invasive versions of deep brain stimulation, pacemakers and insulin pumps

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Testing self-eliminating genes on mosquitoes

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Shrinking a terahertz radiation source to a size useable in a smartphone opens huge opportunities

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Using electrical field treatment to treat cancer

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3D printing of personalized pharmaceuticals using a smartphone

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A handheld device being developed at Stevens Institute of Technology can scan skin and detect different types of skin cancer, such as carcinoma (left), squamous cell carcinoma (middle), and actinic keratosis (right).

Painlessly identifying skin cancers with a new hand-held scanning device

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The simple experiment in pictures. A drop of water by the bottle of salt and suddenly a lot of heat is released. Photo: Vincent van den Hoogen

Could a heat battery based on simple salts and water quickly make millions of homes gas-free

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Miniaturized holographic camera sensor modules could enable hologram capture on smartphones and mobile devices

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Using biowaste to create solar cells from glass and wood

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Using AI to monitor the world’s oceans and alien ocean worlds

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Growing plants in soil from the moon: A First

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Charged supercapacitor Power Suits for electric vehicles and spacecraft

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Controlling crop diseases with smart soil bugs instead of chemicals

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Could selective breeding produce heat-tolerant corals?

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A brilliant and tasty way to prevent pharmaceutical fraud

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Turning back the clock on carbon emissions by 20 years via the relocation of farmland

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Artist Ella Marushenko’s interpretation of the Josephson Diode effect. The image shows a computer chip made from a few layers of atoms (blue and white spheres) comprising the Josephson Diode. The green pairs of spheres represent superconducting pairs of electrons moving in one direction, while the orange spheres represent normal conducting single electrons moving in the opposite direction across the Josephson Diode.

Impossible no more: A one-way superconductor

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A reliable and renewable way to power small devices for the Internet of Things with algae, sunlight and water

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Cooking 3D printed food with lasers

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Using electricity to inexpensively make pharmaceuticals and other natural products

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The depressed brain encourages rigid thought patterns that impact well-being. This can be viewed as a “landscape” with deep wells that make it difficult for patients to “move between” different thoughts and perspectives. Image by Richard Daws, Kings College London

Rewiring the brain for people with depression using psilocybin

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A supercapacitor is similar to a rechargeable battery but the main difference is in how the two devices store charge. A battery uses chemical reactions to store and release charge, whereas a supercapacitor does not rely on chemical reactions. Instead, it relies on the movement of electrons between electrodes, so it takes longer to degrade and has a longer lifespan. CREDIT Gabriella Bocchetti

A environmentally friendly supercapacitor that captures CO2 while charging

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The research team developed a new technology combining nanogold and peptides that can restore both heart function and electrical conductivity

Could a spritz of super-tiny particles of gold and peptides repair a damaged heart?

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A promising future alternative for storing green energy: Information Batteries

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Nanoparticles (top image) efficiently break down pollutants and are magnetic, making them easily recoverable for reuse (bottom image). Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2022, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c23466

Magnetic reusable nanoparticles can clean wastewater filters repeatedly and effectively

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Self-healing, biodegradable, 3D-printed materials that could be used in the development of realistic artificial hands and other soft robotics applications

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LED illuminated nets reduce bycatch of sharks and skates by an incredible 95 percent while maintaining catch rates of target species

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Is cosmic concrete made from space dust and astronaut blood the basis for habitats on the Moon and Mars?

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Using AI controlled electrical brain stimulation to treat a variety of severe mental illnesses

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Can carbon dioxide be very simply converted into sustainable materials that could store hydrogen fuel?

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Imagine a small autonomous vehicle that could drive over land, stop, and flatten itself into a quadcopter

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Efforts to increase CO2 uptake in plants to benefit the climate

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A cost-effective artificial leaf that can capture carbon dioxide at rates 100 times better than current systems

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A new enzyme variant breaks down plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in just a matter of hours to days

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The device generates electricity at night from the temperature difference between the solar cell and its surroundings. CREDIT: Sid Assawaworrarit

Solar cells that provide night time power?

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A self-injecting pill taken orally could deliver similar or even better results comparable to standard injections

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(from left to right) Dr Wu Shifan, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Solutions, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NTU and Professor Chu Jian, Chair of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NTU holding up blocks of biocement made from urea and carbide sludge. CREDIT Credit to Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Creating biocement from waste as an alternative to regular cement

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At the intersection of engineered materials and computation, spin-glass systems comprise a disordered system of nanomagnets arising from random interactions and competition between two types of magnetic order in the material. Credit: Jenna Maria Rantala, Aalto University

A new paradigm in artificial intelligence?

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Medicines can be printed in seven seconds in a new 3D-printing technique that could enable rapid on-site production of medicines

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A world-first antibody-drug delivery system

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The 700kHz, 260-element histotripsy ultrasound array transducer used in Prof. Xu’s lab. Image credit: Marcin Szczepanski, Michigan Engineering

Using ultrasound to partially break up tumors non-invasively so they won’t come back

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Towards a real Tricorder: Combining infrared light and machine learning to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease before symptoms arise

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New hope for low-cost Dengue diagnostics

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It is possible to perform artificial intelligence using tiny nanomagnets that interact like neurons in the brain

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Successfully repairing severe spinal cord injuries in animals with just one injection

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A potential gamechanger to the problem of PPE waste filling landfills and polluting oceans and rivers

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A first step towards genuine plastic recycling?

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A COVID-19 Nasal Vaccine?

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Paraffin wax-coated sand is an extremely water-repellant material, which keeps soil wet and increases crop yields in arid environments. Credit: Adapted from ACS Agricultural Science &Technology 2022, DOI: 10.1021/acsagscitech.1c00148

Improving crop yields substantially in arid regions by using wax-coated sand to keep soil wet longer

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Could a special form of light made using an ancient Namibian gemstone be the key to new light-based quantum computers?

Could a special form of light made using an ancient Namibian gemstone be the key to new light-based quantum computers?

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

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Pores in this micron-scale particle, the result of pyrolyzing in the presence of potassium acetate, are able to sequester carbon dioxide from streams of flue gas.Courtesy of the Tour Group

Here’s another thing to do with that mountain of used plastic: make it soak up excess carbon dioxide

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Using a candy-based reusable sensor to monitor health

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Berkeley Lab researcher Peter Agbo was awarded a grant for a carbon capture project under the Lab’s Carbon Negative Initiative. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab)

Accelerating CO2 capture in oceans with bacteria

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Assembling and expanding the first-ever global audio collection of aquatic life

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An MIT team has designed an “acoustic fabric,” woven with a fiber that is designed from a “piezoelectric” material that produces an electrical signal when bent or mechanically deformed, providing a means for the fabric to convert sound vibrations into electrical signals. Image: Greg Hren

A new acoustic fabric converts audible sounds into electrical signals

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A new glass material that ‘self-adapts’ to heating and cooling

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A way to stop fossil fuels causing global warming?

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An electronic skin which can learn from feeling ‘pain’

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A heat transfer discovery that uses ice to boil water

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Flow diagram of solar-biomass hybrid system CREDIT: Gaoyang Hou and Lei Xu/ Northwest A&F University

Addressing solar power’s intermittency problem in renewable energy heating systems

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Bamboo fiber as a great environmentally friendly manufacturing alternative

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A new composite fabric can deactivate both biological threats, such as the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, and chemical threats

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A new drug-delivery system uses engineered DNA-free virus-like particles to fight cholesterol

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The new drone with a fish-inspired suction disc hitchhikes on moving objects to save power and can quickly transition between air and water. Illustration: Beihang University / Science Robotics

A new robot is capable of switching from an underwater drone to an aerial vehicle in less than one second

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Honey can be used for creating renewable and biodegradable neuromorphic chips and systems

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Korea Institute of Science and Technology(KIST) Schematic illustration of ??wirelessly charging a body-implanted electronic device using an ultrasonic probe

Wireless charging of batteries underwater or in body-implanted electronic devices using ultrasonic waves

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Speeding up the formation of hydrates from hours or even days down to a few minutes to drive carbon capture

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An unlikely way to reverse the ageing process

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Image originally appeared in Nature Communications

Could direct sound printing revolutionize 3D printing and enable remote in-body printing for humans and other animals?

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Overcome: A major hurdle to the restoration of hearing

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A single DNA test for over 50 genetic neurological and neuromuscular diseases in days not decades

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Developing living construction materials

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Visible light triggers molecular machines to treat infections

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Melting ice microneedle patches for painless drug delivery

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A new source of vitamin D from gene-edited tomatoes

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