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Rigid waterproof degradable coating for paper aims to reduce our dependence on plastic

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Making traffic jams a distant memory with new AI traffic lights

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A dual membrane redox flow battery for large scale energy storage

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Detecting deepfake videos with up to 99% accuracy

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Smartphone-powered microchip for at-home medical diagnostic testing

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Smartphone disease diagnosis moves closer with a new nanotech imaging tool

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One step toward a revolution in the global ammonia industry that also helps the environment

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An inexpensive paper-based test that can rapidly identify multiple types of dangerous bacteria

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Needle-free injection technologies use lasers to deliver medication painlessly

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Storing big data in a small space using little energy

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New capability allows the close monitoring of underground activity in geothermal reservoirs and sequestered carbon dioxide locations

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Dramatically improving the performances of lithium-oxygen batteries to compete with gas-powered vehicles

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Engineering and optimizing a bacteria to break down waste carbon dioxide to make valuable industrial chemicals.

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How to give the endangered abalone an ultrasound

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A new path to a personalized and precisely targeted battle against cancer

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Breaking down plastic bottles into component parts using MOFs

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$Choetsu up close. A rendering showing the silica layer api titanium nanoparticles spread throughout. These can pro\ bacteria being destroyed in the center. Credit: Hiroi et al.$

Rigid waterproof degradable coating for paper aims to reduce our dependence on plastic

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Making traffic jams a distant memory with new AI traffic lights

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A dual membrane redox flow battery for large scale energy storage

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Detecting deepfake videos with up to 99% accuracy

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Smartphone-powered microchip for at-home medical diagnostic testing

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Smartphone disease diagnosis moves closer with a new nanotech imaging tool

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One step toward a revolution in the global ammonia industry that also helps the environment

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An inexpensive paper-based test that can rapidly identify multiple types of dangerous bacteria

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A hydrogen fuel cell that uses iron instead of rare and costly platinum

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MIT researchers have developed a system that enables a robot to learn a new pick-and-place task based on only a handful of human examples. This could allow a human to reprogram a robot to grasp never-before-seen objects, presented in random poses, in about 15 minutes. Courtesy of the researchers

An easier way to teach robots new skills in only 10 to 15 minutes

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The novel detection platform is fast, accurate, and performs label-free imaging of virus particles by slowing down light CREDIT Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)

Detecting coronavirus using “slow light” to easily visualize viruses using an optical microscope

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Breaking down plastic bottles into component parts using MOFs

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Needle-free injection technologies use lasers to deliver medication painlessly

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Storing big data in a small space using little energy

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New capability allows the close monitoring of underground activity in geothermal reservoirs and sequestered carbon dioxide locations

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Dramatically improving the performances of lithium-oxygen batteries to compete with gas-powered vehicles

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Engineering and optimizing a bacteria to break down waste carbon dioxide to make valuable industrial chemicals.

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How to give the endangered abalone an ultrasound

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A new path to a personalized and precisely targeted battle against cancer

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Breaking down plastic bottles into component parts using MOFs

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Getting us much closer to making fuel cell-powered vehicles and other fuel cell technologies a reality

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High schoolers developed a filter (the inside of which is shown here) that attaches to a faucet and removes lead from tap water. Credit: Rebecca Bushway

An inexpensive filter developed by high schoolers removes lead from tap water and turns yellow when it needs changing

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Building a quantum computer atom by atom on silicon

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A way to use light and oxygen to upcycle polystyrene which makes up one third of landfill waste plastic

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Take a deep breath: An effective SARS-CoV-2 vaccine by inhaler

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3D printed ultra-compact, high-power heat exchangers

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One step toward a revolution in the global ammonia industry that also helps the environment

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A way to make buildings significantly more energy efficient with a new heat storage material

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MIT researchers have developed a system that enables a robot to learn a new pick-and-place task based on only a handful of human examples. This could allow a human to reprogram a robot to grasp never-before-seen objects, presented in random poses, in about 15 minutes. Courtesy of the researchers

An easier way to teach robots new skills in only 10 to 15 minutes

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Far-UVC light is highly effective at killing airborne viruses and bacteria in real room environments

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An inexpensive paper-based test that can rapidly identify multiple types of dangerous bacteria

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Identifying if a patient has cancer and if it has spread with a new blood test

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A route to inexpensive desalination

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A first of its kind: A promising nose spray that could prevent and even treat COVID-19

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The smallest-ever human-made flying structure: A winged microchip

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A hydrogen fuel cell that uses iron instead of rare and costly platinum

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Replacing petroleum-based aviation fuel with sustainable aviation fuel derived from a type of mustard plant can reduce carbon emissions by up to 68 percent

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The novel detection platform is fast, accurate, and performs label-free imaging of virus particles by slowing down light CREDIT Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)

Detecting coronavirus using “slow light” to easily visualize viruses using an optical microscope

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A more nutritious and antioxidant-rich replacement for dairy and eggs in foods?

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Smartphone disease diagnosis moves closer with a new nanotech imaging tool

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Making traffic jams a distant memory with new AI traffic lights

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Solving a key obstacle that has limited widespread adoption of phase-change memory

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Plasma-based engineering is an inexpensive and environmentally friendly method of producing antimicrobial surfaces

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Reconstructed holographic images of a toy train (top) with holobricks and original image captured by a camera (bottom) Credit: CAPE

Making giant 3D highly realistic holographic images with stackable ‘holobricks’

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Quickly detecting sepsis using machine learning can save a lot of lives

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Restoring soils and ecosystems using micro-organisms

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Air filters which can kill bacteria, fungi and viruses including SARS-CoV-2 in seconds

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The way to build silicon-based quantum devices compatible with current semiconductor manufacturing technology

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The code mimics the mechanisms by which the immune system learns to identify antigens, instead learning to characterize the dubious inputs to the machine learning algorithm. Image credit: Ren Wang

A way to make deep neural networks immune to hacking?

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Figure 1: Ionic communication: Cross-sectional schematic illustration of an ionic communication device consisting of an implanted transmitter (TX) electrode pair inside biological tissue and a receiver electrode pair (RX) on the surface of the tissue (top left). Frequency responses of ionic communication highlighting is capacity to operate at megahertz frequencies (top right). A 10-link ionic communication transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX) array conforming to the surface of an orchid petal (bottom). Credit: Dion Khodagholy/Columbia Engineering

Using the body’s naturally occurring ions to help transmit data from implantable devices

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A dual membrane redox flow battery for large scale energy storage

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Ultra-scalable artificial synapse

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Rapidly detecting infections in wounds with new low-cost sensors

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Using remote sensing to diagnose insect infestations in forests

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Speeding up computation by up to 1000 times at 1 trillion operations per second

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Smartphone-powered microchip for at-home medical diagnostic testing

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Detecting deepfake videos with up to 99% accuracy

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The copper thin film was grown using atomic sputtering epitaxy and then the mechanism behind its strong oxidation-resistance was revealed using theoretical models CREDIT Pusan National University

Replacing gold in semiconductor devices with atomically flat thin-film copper that won’t corrode

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A breakthrough in the ability to recycle plastics

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Self-cleaning bioplastics that break down rapidly once in soil

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“Smart” natural food packaging infused with a cocktail of natural antimicrobial compounds extends the shelf life of food

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A new non-hormonal contraceptive that stops sperm in its tracks

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Good vibrations: Cleaning solar panels without using water

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No more annual flu shot?

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Predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory medicine, known as P4, gets a big privacy and security boost from cryptography

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Lighting up cancerous tissue with a new MRI innovation

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Using relativity to secure data transfers

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Repairing or replacing damaged corneas

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A cheap new way to capture and convert CO2 greenhouse emissions using liquid metal

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Is blockchain the most secure communications strategy for teams of robots?

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A new way to reawaken the immune system to fight cancer

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A cure for Lyme disease?

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Leo Medrano, a PhD student in the Neurobionics Lab at the University of Michigan, tests out an ankle exoskeleton on a two-track treadmill. By allowing the user to directly manipulate the exoskeleton’s settings while testing it on a treadmill, preferences that are difficult to detect or measure, such as comfort, could be accounted for by the users themselves. Image credit: University of Michigan Robotics Institute

Doubling the oil production capacity of industrial algae

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An oxygen-delivering hydrogel could create a drug-free treatment for chronic wounds

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Empa researcher Fei Pan is working on a membrane made of nanofibers that releases medication only when the material heats up. Such a membrane could, for example, become active in a bandage as soon as an inflammation starts.

New smart bandage releases healing substances when infection and inflammation heat is detected

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1,000 + cycle lithium-sulfur batteries could quintuple electric vehicle ranges

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The biofuel process gets much cleaner and less expensive

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New MSU research shows how biofuel crops can help mitigate climate change when grown on land of otherwise little agricultural value

How switchgrass, a biofuel crop, can mitigate effects of climate change when grown on marginal land

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A biosensor for personalized dosing of medications

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Optical communication takes a leap that could be compared to switching from older, dial-up internet to modern broadband, with high speed and quality

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$Choetsu up close. A rendering showing the silica layer api titanium nanoparticles spread throughout. These can pro\ bacteria being destroyed in the center. Credit: Hiroi et al.$

Rigid waterproof degradable coating for paper aims to reduce our dependence on plastic

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A microneedle patch to deliver COVID-19 DNA vaccine without refrigeration

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Energy efficient engine systems could soon become an industrial reality for ships

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A chaos-based stream cipher that can withstand attacks from large-scale quantum computers

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Taking the fight to online hackers with a giant leap towards realizing affordable, accessible quantum communications

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If artificial intelligence is so smart can it play well with others?

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This illustration demonstrates the structure of the LF Chip: B cells and T cells were cultured together in the extracellular matrix (ECM)-lined lower channel, and were “fed” via the consistent flow of nutrient-containing medium through the upper channel. This flow is also what appears to have caused the spontaneous assembly of the cells into lymphoid follicles. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

Significantly speeding up the pace and quality of vaccine creation with a microfluidic Organ Chip – No Animal Testing

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A new method make mining operations more sustainable using much less energy and water

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Robotic surgery performed with no human help

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Using only a half-liter of salt water to generate 45 days of life

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A leap-ahead technology for generating terahertz radiation

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A tipping point toward self-sustaining fusion?

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The BLIO technology explores a "genetic switch" to unlock oil production in microalgae. (Image by LIU Yang and ZHANG Peng)

Doubling the oil production capacity of industrial algae

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

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Fast mass screening for Covid in public places could happen with a new breathalyzer

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Identified: Specific drug targets within the neural circuits that encode memories could really help brain disorders

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A new long-lasting disinfectant for pandemics?

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High-performance sodium and potassium ion batteries using sustainably sourced cellulose

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A likely cause of Alzheimer’s?

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“Humans and machine algorithms have complementary strengths and weaknesses,” says study co-author Mark Steyvers (right), UCI professor of cognitive sciences, here with fellow co-author Padhraic Smyth, UCI Chancellor’s Professor of computer science. “Each uses different sources of information and strategies to make predictions and decisions.” Steve Zylius / UCI

New and improved approaches to human-AI collaboration by combining machine and human predictions

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A stable flow battery that retains 99.98 percent capacity per cycle

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An international team of scientists led by KAUST has combined the latest DNA sequencing techniques to assemble the genome for bread wheat. Using this genome, the researchers identified and cloned a key gene that helps crops resist stripe rust. CREDIT: KAUST

Solving rust resistance in bread wheat could help ensure future food security

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A new flexible stretchable battery is capable of moving smoothly like snake scales

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A way to significantly reduce the presence of airborne SARS-CoV-2 in COVID-19 wards

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Shaun Tan/UCLA Photo of a thin film perovskite solar cell produced with a manufacturing process fix developed by UCLA researchers and colleagues

Finally: A fix that makes perovskite solar cells commercially viable

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Powering electric vehicles with hydrogen harvested from sewage

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Assessing soil health by measuring the electric current produced by its tiniest microbes

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Rita Clare, Montana State University. The image shows the TPADO enzyme.

An important next step in developing nature-based solutions to the global plastics crisis

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L. Boxberger/Fraunhofer IWU Vision of a deployment scenario for safe and powerful robot structures.

Close robotic proximity to humans just got safer and more powerful

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers built a prototype natural gas furnace that uses acidic gas reduction technology to remove or trap potentially environmentally harmful emissions. Credit: ORNL, U.S. Dept, of Energy

A “catalytic converter” to capture gas furnace emissions

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A very potent antiviral against all known dengue variants that could also be used for prevention purposes

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Getting more from biomass by combining solar energy and a chemical reactor

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