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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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Growing plants in soil from the moon: A First

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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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Charged supercapacitor Power Suits for electric vehicles and spacecraft

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A smart approach to microscopy and imaging developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory could drive discoveries in materials for future technologies. Credit: Adam Malin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

Self-driving AI enabled microscopes could really speed up materials discovery

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A brilliant and tasty way to prevent pharmaceutical fraud

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Using electricity to inexpensively make pharmaceuticals and other natural products

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Overcome: A major hurdle to the restoration of hearing

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

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

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

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Sunlight powered lasers

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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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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 new process to recover rare earth elements from waste

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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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Growing plants in soil from the moon: A First

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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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Charged supercapacitor Power Suits for electric vehicles and spacecraft

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A smart approach to microscopy and imaging developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory could drive discoveries in materials for future technologies. Credit: Adam Malin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

Self-driving AI enabled microscopes could really speed up materials discovery

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A brilliant and tasty way to prevent pharmaceutical fraud

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Using electricity to inexpensively make pharmaceuticals and other natural products

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Overcome: A major hurdle to the restoration of hearing

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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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An unlikely way to reverse the ageing process

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

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

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

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

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Sunlight powered lasers

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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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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 new process to recover rare earth elements from waste

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

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Using biowaste to create solar cells from glass and wood

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

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Small-scale regenerative ocean farms

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

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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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Using electrical field treatment to treat cancer

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

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

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

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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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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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Using a candy-based reusable sensor to monitor health

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

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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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3D printing of personalized pharmaceuticals using a smartphone

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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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Cooking 3D printed food with lasers

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A brilliant and tasty way to prevent pharmaceutical fraud

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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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Charged supercapacitor Power Suits for electric vehicles and spacecraft

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

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Producing eco-friendly micro-supercapacitors with fallen leaves

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Could selective breeding produce heat-tolerant corals?

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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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Using electricity to inexpensively make pharmaceuticals and other natural products

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

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

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Fungal fibers can be turned into yarn (left) or a leather substitute (right). Credit: Akram Zamani

Could bread-eating fungi be used to make sustainable leather, yarn and paper from food waste?

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

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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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An entirely unique approach to vaccination

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Overcome: A major hurdle to the restoration of hearing

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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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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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An unlikely way to reverse the ageing process

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

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

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

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A smart approach to microscopy and imaging developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory could drive discoveries in materials for future technologies. Credit: Adam Malin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

Self-driving AI enabled microscopes could really speed up materials discovery

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

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New hope for low-cost Dengue diagnostics

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Wireless power beaming for small satellites in lower Earth orbit

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

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

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A first step towards genuine plastic recycling?

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A promising future alternative for storing green energy: Information Batteries

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

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Controlling crop diseases with smart soil bugs instead of chemicals

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Testing self-eliminating genes on mosquitoes

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

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University at Buffalo / Advanced Materials A nanoscale rendering of two materials, graphene (gray) and chromium oxide (blue), that collectively allowed researchers from Nebraska and Buffalo to fabricate a new type of transistor. The red and green arrows represent spin, a magnetism-related property of electrons that can be read as a 1 or 0.

Cutting 5% from world’s digital energy budget with a new transistor that remembers

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A heat transfer discovery that uses ice to boil water

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A circle of carbon fibers which have a diameter of about 10 micrometers. Photo: Nicola Ferralis

Turning valueless petroleum residue into high-value, ultralight structural materials for cars, aircraft, and spacecraft

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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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Growing plants in soil from the moon: A First

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If you’ve ever snorkeled or scuba dived around a reef, chances are you’ve heard fish making sound. Photo credit: Kieran Cox

A global library for fish sounds will help to conserve underwater ecosystems

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Will vertical farms really help to tackle global food challenges?

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Photovoltaic solar water heating gets real

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An artist's depiction of a bacterial cell Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/James Archer

Genetically engineered sound-controlled bacteria that can seek and destroy cancer cells

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

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A significant advance for carbon dioxide capture and fuel cells

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A world-first antibody-drug delivery system

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Efforts to increase CO2 uptake in plants to benefit the climate

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Microdrones, significantly smaller than red blood cells, can be controlled with light-driven nanomotors

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The dawn of “intelligent” furniture?

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Precise brain surgery without a scalpel

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The lab-based prototype lidar system that the research team built, which successfully captured megapixel-resolution depth maps using a commercially available digital camera. (Image credit: Andrew Brodhead)

Enabling simple cameras to see in 3D and more

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None of these marine energy devices are commercially available—yet. With help from an updated data collection and processing tool, Americans could soon get clean energy from waves, tides, and river and ocean currents. Photo from the U.S. Department of Energy

Is marine energy finally here?

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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 new material that is stronger than steel and as light as plastic can be easily manufactured in large quantities

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

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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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PET bottles are a major and ubiquitous source of plastic pollution. However, emerging technologies can turn them into porous carbon materials for carbon capture. Now, researchers from Korea University demonstrate an economically feasible of doing so.

Capturing carbon dioxide with porous carbon created from plastic waste

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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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