Designer Dani Clode with her ‘Third Thumb’ device. Credit: Dani Clode Using a robotic ‘Third Thumb’ can impact how the hand is represented in the…
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NASA Laser Communications: Empowering More Data Than Ever Before
Illustration of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Space Test Program Satellite-6 (STPSat-6) with the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) payload communicating data over infrared links.…
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Breakthrough Sees Creation of Light-Emitting Solid Carbon From CO2 Gas
Credit: University of Ottawa Out of Thick Air: Transforming CO2 Into Light-Emitting Carbon A team of researchers at the University of Ottawa has found a…
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Following Atoms in Real Time Could Lead to New Types of Materials and Quantum Technology Devices
Researchers have used a technique similar to MRI to follow the movement of individual atoms in real time as they cluster together to form two-dimensional…
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Stopping the Airborne Spread of COVID-19: Nanofiber Filter Captures Almost 100% of Coronavirus Aerosols
Left: A nanofiber filter that captures 99.9% of coronavirus aerosols; Right: A highly magnified image of the polymer nanofibers. Credit: Yun Shen A filter made…
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A Ghostly Solution: Strange Property of the Quantum Realm Enables Efficient Energy Harvesting in Tiny Device
Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have tapped into a poltergeist-like property of electrons to design devices that can capture excess heat from their…
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World-First Concept for Rechargeable Cement-Based Batteries – Imagine a 20-Story Building That Stores Energy Like a Giant Battery
Imagine an entire twenty-story concrete building that can store energy like a giant battery. Thanks to unique research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, such…
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Scientists Explore Tesla Roads Not Taken – And Find Potential New Utility in 100-Year-Old Invention
Double-exposure photograph of Nikola Tesla in December 1899 sitting in his laboratory in Colorado Springs next to his magnifying transmitter high voltage generator while the…
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Harvesting Light Like Nature Does: Synthesizing a New Class of Bio-Inspired, Light-Capturing Nanomaterials
POSS-peptoid molecules self-assemble into rhomboid-shaped nanocrystals. Credit: Illustration by Stephanie King | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Inspired by nature, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory…
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New Propulsion System Could Enable Flying at Speeds Up to Mach 17
A conceptual hypersonic aircraft, powered by an oblique detonation wave engine, is pictured. Background image credit: NASA. Aircraft and composite image credit: Daniel Rosato, UCF.…
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