Researchers at RIKEN, Japan have created remote-controlled cyborg cockroaches, equipped with a tiny wireless control module that is powered by a rechargeable battery attached to…
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Vanadium Dioxide (VO2), a compound capable of “remembering” the entire history of previous external stimuli. Credit: POWERlab / 2022 EPFL Vanadium Dioxide has the ability…
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Pump photons pass through a resonant metasurface and produce entangled photon pairs at different wavelengths. Credit: Santiago-Cruz et al., Science 377:6609, 991-995 (2022)) Scientists have…
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Arranged in bristle-like structures, a robotic microswarm of iron oxide nanoparticles developed by a team from the University of Pennsylvania effectively cleaned plaque from teeth.…
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Researchers fabricated green absorbing transparent organic photodetectors that are highly sensitive and compatible with CMOS fabrication methods. They combined one of these green organic photodetectors…
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Researchers have developed a new kind of battery, made entirely from abundant and inexpensive materials, that could provide low-cost backup storage for renewable energy sources…
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MIT researchers have demonstrated a 3D-printed plasma sensor for orbiting spacecraft that works just as well as much more expensive, semiconductor sensors. These durable, precise…
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Many heart problems, including tachycardia and fibrillation, mainly originate from imperfections in the way electric currents propagate through the heart. Unfortunately, it is difficult for…
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Scientists have developed a more environmentally friendly prototype device that could someday replace existing air conditioners. Summer is in full swing in the United States,…
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