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Researchers create world's smallest 'computer'

IBM's announcement that they had produced the world's smallest computer back in March raised a few eyebrows at the University of Michigan, home of the previous champion of tiny computing.

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Low-cost plastic sensors could monitor a range of health conditions

An international team of researchers have developed a low-cost sensor made from semiconducting plastic that can be used to diagnose or monitor a wide range of health conditions, such as surgical complications or neurodegenerative ...

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Jun 22, 2018
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Tracking cancer cell development with 'drinkable' electronic sensors

Thanks to an unorthodox approach being proposed by EPFL researchers, patients may soon be able to track their illness simply by drinking a solution containing millions of tiny electronic sensors disguised as bacteria.

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Jun 22, 2018
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Chip upgrade helps miniature drones navigate

Researchers at MIT, who last year designed a tiny computer chip tailored to help honeybee-sized drones navigate, have now shrunk their chip design even further, in both size and power consumption.

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Jun 20, 2018
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'Artificial blubber' protects divers in frigid water

When Navy SEALs carry out dives in Arctic waters, or when rescue teams are diving under ice-covered rivers or ponds, the survival time even in the best wetsuits is very limited—as little as tens of minutes, and the experience ...

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Jun 19, 2018
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Optical scanning technology used to restore wax recordings of indigenous languages

A team of researchers at UC Berkeley has embarked on a project to save wax recordings made a century ago using modern technology—they are calling it the "Documenting Endangered Languages" initiative. As they describe in ...

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Jun 18, 2018
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The intersection of 3-D printing and machine learning

In the past the applications of metal additive manufacturing, otherwise known as 3-D printing, have primarily been confined to prototyping. Recently, the field has begun to undergo a major transition, as researchers push ...

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Jun 15, 2018
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Engineers configure RFID tags to work as sensors

These days, many retailers and manufacturers are tracking their products using RFID, or radio-frequency identification tags. Often, these tags come in the form of paper-based labels outfitted with a simple antenna and memory ...

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Jun 14, 2018
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System allows surveillance cameras to 'talk' to the public through individual smartphones

Purdue University researchers have created a technology that allows public cameras to send personalized messages to people without compromising their privacy.

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Jun 14, 2018
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Exoskeleton designed to help paraplegics walk

An exoskeleton that can restore mobility for people confined to wheelchairs is always met with interest by medical professionals and by those affected. This time around, a lot of interest is evidenced in a team's effort to ...

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Jun 14, 2018
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Magnetic 3-D-printed structures crawl, roll, and jump

MIT engineers have created soft, 3-D-printed structures whose movements can be controlled with a wave of a magnet, much like marionettes without the strings.

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Jun 13, 2018
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Electromigration at normal operating temperatures causes integrated circuits to fail in hours instead of year

A University of California, Riverside engineer builds electronic circuits just to break them as quickly as possible. A research team led by Sheldon Tan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Bourns College ...

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Jun 13, 2018
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AI senses people's pose through walls

X-ray vision has long seemed like a far-fetched sci-fi fantasy, but over the last decade a team led by Professor Dina Katabi from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has continually gotten ...

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Jun 12, 2018
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Now, you can 3-D print clay, cookie dough – or solid rocket fuel

It's now possible to 3-D print extremely viscous materials, with the consistency of clay or cookie dough with fine precision, thanks to work done at Purdue University. This development may soon allow the creation of customized ...

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Jun 12, 2018
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Orange peels may hold secret to airborne medicine, safer bridges

Bartenders and cooks have long recognized the value of an orange twist, but thanks to researchers at the University of Central Florida, squeezing oranges may give us a new way to deliver medicine or to detect bridge failures ...

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Jun 11, 2018
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New aircraft-scheduling models may ease air travel frustrations

Flight schedules that allow for a little carefully designed wiggle room could prevent the frustration of cascading airport delays and cancellations. By focusing on the early phases of flight schedule planning and delays at ...

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Jun 11, 2018
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New system recovers fresh water from power plants

A new system devised by MIT engineers could provide a low-cost source of drinking water for parched cities around the world while also cutting power plant operating costs.

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Jun 08, 2018
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Researchers develop a new way for designing electronics

A team from the University of Southampton has invented a new way for designing electronic systems that incorporates the best from both analogue and digital paradigms.

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Jun 08, 2018
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System for drone surveillance: How violence is boxed

Three researchers, Amarjot Singh (University of Cambridge), Devendra Patil (NIT Warangal India), and SN Omkar (IISc Bangalore) are working on the use of a drone and artificial intelligence to spot fighting people in a crowd.

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Jun 08, 2018
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Team outlines plan for industrial-scale carbon removal plant

As the Earth continues to heat up, so have calls to dramatically reduce carbon dioxide emissions to avoid catastrophic climate change. But many experts say that even if all emissions stopped tomorrow, the planet would continue ...

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Jun 08, 2018
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Novel transmitter uses ultrafast 'frequency hopping' and data encryption to protect signals from being intercepted

Today, more than 8 billion devices are connected around the world, forming an "internet of things" that includes medical devices, wearables, vehicles, and smart household and city technologies. By 2020, experts estimate that ...

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Jun 07, 2018
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New sensors open door to wearable medical diagnostic device

Scientists from ANU have designed tiny optical sensors that open the door to developing a wearable device that allows doctors to medically diagnose people's health in real time.

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Jun 07, 2018
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Algorithm provides networks with the most current information available while avoiding data congestion

For wireless networks that share time-sensitive information on the fly, it's not enough to transmit data quickly. That data also need to be fresh. Consider the many sensors in your car. While it may take less than a second ...

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Jun 05, 2018
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Team uses biomimicry of bats to help drones navigate in the dark, dust or smoke

To get drones to fly around complicated obstacles in the dark by themselves, University of Cincinnati researchers are turning to the pros.

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Jun 05, 2018
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Wireless system can power devices inside the body

MIT researchers, working with scientists from Brigham and Women's Hospital, have developed a new way to power and communicate with devices implanted deep within the human body. Such devices could be used to deliver drugs, ...

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Jun 04, 2018
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