Researchers develop a soft robot that shifts from land to sea with ease
Most animals can quickly transition from walking to jumping to crawling to swimming if needed without reconfiguring or making major adjustments.
Mar 14, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Research team proposes innovative wearable e-textiles for a sustainable circular economy
If electronic textiles (e-textiles) are to have a sustainable future and at scale, then a transition is needed to unlock innovative wearable e-textiles that fit a sustainable circular economy—adopting what has been termed ...
Oct 16, 2023
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Engineering
Method to fabricate eco-friendly adsorbents for heavy metal ion removal by 3D printing
One of the leading causes of water pollution is heavy metal contamination which has profound adverse effects on human health and the environment. That's why Clarkson University researchers have developed a cost-effective, ...
Oct 7, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Using flexible organic solar cells in the stratosphere
Near-space aircraft and pseudo high-altitude satellites in the stratosphere have a wide application in environmental monitoring, disaster relief and mitigation, agricultural and forestry monitoring, resource exploration, ...
Apr 7, 2023
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Robotics
Soft skin-like robots you can put in your pocket
Stretchable skin-like robots that can be rolled up and put in your pocket have been developed by a University of Bristol team using a new way of embedding artificial muscles and electrical adhesion into soft materials.
Nov 20, 2019
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers develop biomimetic olfactory chips to enable advanced gas sensing and odor detection
A research team led by the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has addressed the long-standing challenge of creating artificial olfactory sensors with arrays of diverse high-performance ...
Mar 28, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Researchers develop system for improved latent fingerprint recognition
Recently, a research group led by Prof. Long Shibing from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, collaborating with Prof. Liu Qi from Fudan University, developed an in-sensor ...
Dec 2, 2022
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Researchers improve environmental monitoring applications
A research team from Wayne State University's National Institutes of Health-funded Superfund Research Program, the Center for Leadership in Environmental Awareness and Research (CLEAR), recently published a paper that describes ...
Aug 9, 2023
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Bidirectional reflectivity measurements for ground-based objects
Measuring bidirectional reflectivity of ground-based objects has long posed a challenging task, hampered by limitations in both ground-based and satellite-based observations from multiple angles. However, in recent years, ...
Oct 27, 2023
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Intel co-founder, philanthropist Gordon Moore dies at 94
Gordon Moore, the Intel Corp. co-founder who set the breakneck pace of progress in the digital age with a simple 1965 prediction of how quickly engineers would boost the capacity of computer chips, has died. He was 94.
Mar 25, 2023
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