Google said its Pixel smartphones will be able to measure respiration and heart rate with an upgraded fitness app, as part of its digital health…
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Discovery Could Lead to Self-Propelled Robots – Using Only Energy Flow From Their Environment
Army-funded researchers discover how to make materials capable of self-propulsion, allowing materials to move without motors or hands. Credit: Yongjin Kim, UMass Amherst Army-funded researchers…
View More Discovery Could Lead to Self-Propelled Robots – Using Only Energy Flow From Their EnvironmentNo More Needles for Diagnostic Tests? Engineers Develop Nearly Pain-Free Microneedle Patch
Engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a microneedle patch that can be applied to the skin,…
View More No More Needles for Diagnostic Tests? Engineers Develop Nearly Pain-Free Microneedle PatchScientists Create Advanced, More Powerful Superconducting Magnet for Next Generation Light Sources
This half-meter-long prototype of a niobium-tin superconducting undulator magnet was designed and built by a team from three U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories. The…
View More Scientists Create Advanced, More Powerful Superconducting Magnet for Next Generation Light SourcesNew Technology Could Dramatically Lower Cost of Electron Sources – For Night Vision, Particle Accelerators and More
Artist’s representation of a halide perovskite photocathode. Researchers at Rice University and Los Alamos National Laboratory found halide perovskite semiconductors (silver) treated with a thin…
View More New Technology Could Dramatically Lower Cost of Electron Sources – For Night Vision, Particle Accelerators and MoreHigh-Entropy Alloys: Islands Without Structure Inside Metal Alloys for Tougher Materials
Proposed hierarchical deformation mechanism paradigm for the equiatomic CrCoNi-based HEAs subjected to increasing degrees of deformation. Elastic deformation, dislocation-mediated plasticity, twinning-induced plasticity, TRIP, and finally…
View More High-Entropy Alloys: Islands Without Structure Inside Metal Alloys for Tougher MaterialsDeterrence With Imperfect Attribution: A Better Kind of Cybersecurity Strategy
The multilateral nature of cybersecurity today makes it markedly different than conventional security, according to a new study co-authored by an MIT professor. New model…
View More Deterrence With Imperfect Attribution: A Better Kind of Cybersecurity StrategyNew Strategies for Designing Efficient Electroluminescent Materials
A collaborative study by a team of materials scientists and theoretical chemists demonstrates how a class of electroluminescent materials, key components of devices such as…
View More New Strategies for Designing Efficient Electroluminescent MaterialsUsing Lasers to Create Miniature Robots From Bubbles [Video]
Miniature robots created from bubbles can manipulate small pieces into interconnected structures. Credit: American Chemical Society Robots are widely used to build cars, paint airplanes…
View More Using Lasers to Create Miniature Robots From Bubbles [Video]Surprisingly Fast Transport in Carbon Nanotube Membranes Could Advance Human Health
Artistic rendering of fast ion permeation inside single-walled carbon nanotubes. Small ions such as potassium, chloride, and sodium permeate through the inner volume of nanometer-wide…
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