Energy & Green Tech
What if the dirtiest water in town could help pay for its own cleanup? That is the question that started our project. Sewage is full of hungry bacteria. It also carries leftover medicines, including antibiotics like chloramphenicol, ...
Computer Sciences
A McGill-led research team has developed a bacteria-based biocomputer that can solve large, complex problems using a small fraction of the memory and resources required by standard ("solid-state") computers. Possible applications ...
Nov 3, 2026
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Engineering
What if you could see how rough an object feels, even without touching it? A KAIST research team has developed a technique that makes the roughness of virtual objects visible through changes in the outline of a virtual hand. ...
Nov 3, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
It's hard to ignore the difference: You can fill a car's tank with gas in mere minutes. Charging the battery of an electric vehicle (EV) can take 30 minutes or more.
Nov 2, 2026
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Robotics
A moth-shaped robot used an artificial circulatory system to deliver chemical building blocks through its body and grow a light sensor where UV light struck.
Oct 30, 2026
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Robotics
For decades, event cameras, which emulate the biological retina by continuously monitoring changes in light intensity, have promised to revolutionize how robots perceive the world by allowing them to react faster and operate ...
Oct 30, 2026
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Engineering
When electronics need to stretch, bend or flex, like a wearable sensor or a shape-changing robot, liquid metal often carries the electricity that makes them work.
Oct 29, 2026
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Curtin University researchers may have found a new way to help police trace 3D-printed firearms, after developing a new method of analyzing the plastic used to make them. Homemade plastic weapons present a growing challenge ...
Oct 29, 2026
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Engineering
MIT researchers have developed a new type of origami-based construction method that could be used to build complex structures that are cheaper and easier to assemble and use less material than those built with some conventional ...
Oct 27, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Smartphones and computers process information by switching the current that flows inside semiconductors on and off. The gate electrode delivers the signal that controls this switching. Until now, gate electrodes have typically ...
Oct 26, 2026
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