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Artificial skin creates first ticklish devices

21.10.2019 | University of Bristol | www.bristol.ac.uk

A new interface developed by researchers in Bristol and Paris takes touch technology to the next level by providing an artificial skin-like membrane for augmenting interactive devices such as phones,…

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Artificial skin creates first ticklish devices

Artificial meat is now made in space

14.10.2019 | AFP | www.afp.com

Creating meat from cells is no longer the realm of science fiction: a Russian cosmonaut did it aboard the International Space Station, and it is just a matter of time before these products arrive in…

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019

11.10.2019 | The Nobel Prize | www.nobelprize.org

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 rewards the development of the lithium-ion battery. This lightweight, rechargeable and powerful battery is now used in everything from mobile phones to laptops and…

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New lens ready for its close-up

08.10.2019 | University of Utah | www.utah.edu

Researchers have always thought that flat, ultrathin optical lenses for cameras or other devices were impossible because of the way all the colors of light must bend through them. Consequently,…

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FoodTracker: An AI-powered food detection mobile application

27.09.2019 | TechXplore | www.mcgill.ca

A research team at McGill University in Canada has developed a mobile application that can recognize food items inside an overall meal in real-time, providing useful nutrition-related information.

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FoodTracker: An AI-powered food detection mobile application

‘Nanochains’ could increase battery capacity, cut charging time

20.09.2019 | Purdue University | www.purdue.edu

How long the battery of your phone or computer lasts depends on how many lithium ions can be stored in the battery’s negative electrode material. If the battery runs out of these ions, it can’t…

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‘Nanochains’ could increase battery capacity, cut charging time

Researchers build microscopic biohybrid robots propelled by muscles, nerves

17.09.2019 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | illinois.edu

Researchers have developed soft robotic devices driven by neuromuscular tissue that triggers when stimulated by light – bringing mechanical engineering one step closer to developing autonomous…

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Researchers build microscopic biohybrid robots propelled by muscles, nerves

MIT engineers develop “blackest black” material to date

13.09.2019 | MIT | www.mit.edu

MIT engineers report today that they have cooked up a material that is 10 times blacker than anything that has previously been reported. The material is made from vertically aligned carbon nanotubes,…

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MIT engineers develop “blackest black” material to date

A swifter way towards 3D-printed organs

09.09.2019 | Wyss Institute | wyss.harvard.edu

20 people die every day waiting for an organ transplant in the United States, and while more than 30,000 transplants are now performed annually, there are over 113,000 patients currently on organ…

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Graphene layer enables advance in super-resolution microscopy

04.09.2019 | University of Göttingen | www.uni-goettingen.de/en/1.html

Researchers at the University of Göttingen have developed a new method that takes advantage of the unusual properties of graphene to electromagnetically interact with fluorescing (light-emitting)…

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