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Drinking water from hot summer air
Ultra-Thin Artificial Neurons Mimic Biological Processes for Advanced AI Problem-Solving
A new artificial intelligence system called a semantic decoder can translate a person’s brain activity — while listening to a story or silently imagining telling a story — into a continuous stream of text. Illustration credit: Jerry Tang/Martha Morales/The University of Texas at Austin.
Revealing the stories in people’s minds with a brain activity decoder
A nanomaterials-based sensor detects flu and COVID-19 much more quickly than conventional tests. Dmitry Keeriv
New sensor could tell you in 10 seconds if it is Covid or the flu
A nanoscale look at how dust aggregates on this spiky surface. Credit: The University of Texas at Austin/Smart Material Solutions
Making many types of materials dust resistant, from spacecraft to solar panels to household windows
Large underground salt formations have the potential to aid in the energy transition in myriad ways. Salt deposits can host caverns for hydrogen storage (left) and can help channel heat for geothermal power (right). The geology near salt formations (center left) is often well-suited for permanent carbon storage, which keeps emissions out of the atmosphere by diverting them underground. Credit: Jackson School of Geosciences.
Common salt could have a big role to play in the energy transition to lower carbon energy sources
Basic schematic showing how the M@P-siRNAsT/I of the present study can function as a PA imaging-guided RA therapeutic. PBNPs: Prussian blue nanoparticles; CIA: collagen-induced arthritis; PL: pulsed laser; PA: photoacoustic; ROS: reactive oxygen species; RA: rheumatoid arthritis. (Image by SIAT)
Enabling targeted treatment of rheumatoid arthritis
Human muscles can be impersonated by nanostructured fibers
An example of a different shape the water-capturing film can take.
Plucking drinking water from desert air with a low cost gel film
A new enzyme variant breaks down plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in just a matter of hours to days
A new more environmentally friendly sodium battery solves both the dendrite problem and recharges as quickly as a lithium-ion battery
A way to speed up the formation of hydrates that can store billions of tons of carbon for centuries under the ocean floor
A brand new target for antibiotics based on bacterial warfare
One half of the clean hydrogen problem solved?
Bringing medicine down to the individual level by applying state-of-the-art computation to medical care