Consumer & Gadgets
The yarns made of seaweed, shrimp shells and gelatin concocted in the Hybrid Body Lab seemed to have serious defects. When exposed to water, the seaweed yarn swelled, the shrimp-shell yarn elongated in acidic conditions and ...
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Hardware
I spend my days looking inside chip packages to find out why they failed. With X-ray tomography or an acoustic microscope, I can see through a finished package without opening it: every solder bump, every copper trace, every ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers have solved a longstanding physics puzzle, explaining why electronic devices can fail catastrophically when exposed to radiation. Their findings may hold the key to engineering new electronics that can better ...
Nov 12, 2026
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Robotics
Operating a drone manually requires pilots to watch a screen while coordinating controls. This divides attention between the aircraft and its surroundings. Researchers are exploring ways to make drone operation more intuitive ...
Nov 12, 2026
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Engineering
As electronic devices become smaller and more powerful, keeping them from overheating is an increasingly difficult engineering challenge. Now, Cornell researchers have developed a computational method, backed by the first ...
Nov 12, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Imagine parking your electric vehicle (EV) and charging it without plugging in a cable. Wireless charging makes this possible, but efficient charging requires precise alignment between the vehicle's receiver coil and the ...
Nov 12, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
For the first time, researchers can track the movement of a person's entire body with ultrasonic sound waves, using just an off-the-shelf smartwatch and a lightweight artificial intelligence model—all while ensuring privacy ...
Nov 11, 2026
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Engineering
A small robotic frog developed at Aarhus University can swim using six artificial muscles activated by light. Behind the achievement is a systematic approach that could help researchers develop muscles for the next generation ...
Nov 11, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
What does a faint heartbeat have in common with a thunderous concert? Both present a challenge for digital technology: capturing the quietest details without losing the loudest sounds.
Nov 11, 2026
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Robotics
A new neural network component, developed at University of Michigan Engineering, challenges a common assumption in robot learning: that the same general-purpose neural networks used for image recognition are equally suited ...
Nov 11, 2026
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