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Customised silicone heart valves

24.07.2019 | ETH Zurich | ethz.ch

Scientists at ETH Zurich and the South African company Strait Access Technologies are using 3D printing to produce custom-made artificial heart valves from silicone. This could help meet an ageing…

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Automated system generates robotic parts

18.07.2019 | MIT | www.mit.edu

An automated system developed by MIT researchers designs and 3-D prints complex robotic parts called actuators that are optimized according to an enormous number of specifications. In short, the…

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Automated system generates robotic parts

Sheaths Become Mighty New Layer in Research Team’s Artificial Muscles

12.07.2019 | University of Texas in Dallas | www.utdallas.edu

Over the last 15 years, researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas and their international colleagues have invented several types of strong, powerful artificial muscles using materials ranging…

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Sheaths Become Mighty New Layer in Research Team’s Artificial Muscles

Light-sensing system could show distant galaxies in unprecedented detail

10.07.2019 | UCLA | www.ucla.edu

Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have developed an ultra-sensitive light-detecting system that could enable astronomers to view galaxies, stars and planetary systems in superb…

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Light-sensing system could show distant galaxies in unprecedented detail

Scientists combine light and matter to make particles with new behaviors

05.07.2019 | University of Chicago | www.uchicago.edu

Every type of atom in the universe has a unique fingerprint: It only absorbs or emits light at the particular energies that match the allowed orbits of its electrons. That fingerprint enables…

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Scientists combine light and matter to make particles with new behaviors

Getting more heat out of sunlight

03.07.2019 | MIT | www.mit.edu

A newly developed material that is so perfectly transparent you can barely see it could unlock many new uses for solar heat. It generates much higher temperatures than conventional solar collectors…

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New property of light discovered

01.07.2019 | Phys.org | www.phys.org

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Spain and the U.S. has announced that they have discovered a new property of light—self-torque. In their paper published in the journal…

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Discovery of light-induced ferroelectricity in strontium titanate

17.06.2019 | Phys.org | www.phys.org

Light can be used not only to measure materials' properties, but also to change them. Especially interesting are those cases in which the function of a material can be modified, such as its ability…

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Discovery of light-induced ferroelectricity in strontium titanate

Algorithm tells robots where nearby humans are headed

12.06.2019 | MIT | www.mit.edu

In 2018, researchers at MIT and the auto manufacturer BMW were testing ways in which humans and robots might work in close proximity to assemble car parts. In a replica of a factory floor setting,…

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Algorithm tells robots where nearby humans are headed

Chip design drastically reduces energy needed to compute with light

07.06.2019 | MIT | www.mit.edu

MIT researchers have developed a novel “photonic” chip that uses light instead of electricity — and consumes relatively little power in the process. The chip could be used to process massive neural…

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