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E. coli bacteria offer path to improving photosynthesis

23.09.2020 | Cornell University | www.cornell.edu

Scientists have engineered a key plant enzyme and introduced it in Escherichia coli bacteria in order to create an optimal experimental environment for studying how to speed up photosynthesis, a holy…

E. coli bacteria offer path to improving photosynthesis

Engineers imitate human hands to make better sensors

22.09.2020 | Penn State | www.psu.edu

An international research team has developed “electronic skin” sensors capable of mimicking the dynamic process of human motion. This work could help severely injured people, such as soldiers, regain…

Engineers imitate human hands to make better sensors

Engineers produce a fisheye lens that’s completely flat

21.09.2020 | MIT | www.mit.edu

To capture panoramic views in a single shot, photographers typically use fisheye lenses — ultra-wide-angle lenses made from multiple pieces of curved glass, which distort incoming light to produce…

Engineers produce a fisheye lens that’s completely flat

N95 Masks' Efficiency Can Be Restored With Electricity

16.09.2020 | IEEE Spectrum | spectrum.ieee.org

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, now entering its seventh month, a simple piece of personal protective equipment has been in short supply: N95 masks.

N95 Masks' Efficiency Can Be Restored With Electricity

Astronomers may have found a signature of life on Venus

15.09.2020 | MIT | www.mit.edu

The search for life beyond Earth has largely revolved around our rocky red neighbor. NASA has launched multiple rovers over the years, with a new one currently en route, to sift through Mars’ dusty…

Astronomers may have found a signature of life on Venus

Velcro-like food sensor detects spoilage and contamination

11.09.2020 | MIT | www.mit.edu

MIT engineers have designed a Velcro-like food sensor, made from an array of silk microneedles, that pierces through plastic packaging to sample food for signs of spoilage and bacterial contamination.

Velcro-like food sensor detects spoilage and contamination

Producing leather-like materials from fungi

09.09.2020 | Phys.org | www.phys.org

Traditional leather and its alternatives are typically obtained from animals and synthetic polymers. Leather can be considered a co-product of meat production with both livestock farming and the…

Producing leather-like materials from fungi

New E Ink color display features flicker-free video

07.09.2020 | Tech Xplore | www.techxplore.com

A Chinese multinational electronics company TCL Technologies has developed a new type of screen technology that provides sharper graphics than traditional E Ink displays, with less power consumption,…

New E Ink color display features flicker-free video

Wool-like material can remember and change shape

04.09.2020 | SEAS | www.seas.harvard.edu

As anyone who has ever straightened their hair knows, water is the enemy. Hair painstakingly straightened by heat will bounce back into curls the minute it touches water. Why? Because hair has shape…

Wool-like material can remember and change shape

New electronic skin can react to pain like human skin

02.09.2020 | RMIT University | www.rmit.edu.au

Researchers have developed electronic artificial skin that reacts to pain just like real skin, opening the way to better prosthetics, smarter robotics and non-invasive alternatives to skin grafts.…

New electronic skin can react to pain like human skin

Synthetic coating for the GI tract could deliver drugs or aid in digestion

31.08.2020 | MIT | www.mit.edu

By making use of enzymes found in the digestive tract, MIT engineers have devised a way to apply a temporary synthetic coating to the lining of the small intestine. This coating could be adapted to…

Synthetic coating for the GI tract could deliver drugs or aid in digestion

Improved wearable, stretchable gas sensor using nanocomposites

28.08.2020 | Penn State | www.psu.edu

A stretchable, wearable gas sensor for environmental sensing has been developed and tested by researchers at Penn State, Northeastern University and five universities in China.

Improved wearable, stretchable gas sensor using nanocomposites

Microwaving new materials

26.08.2020 | Carnegie Mellon University | www.cmu.edu

Microwave ovens are the mainstay of cooking appliances in our homes. Five years ago, when Reeja Jayan was a new professor at Carnegie Mellon University, she was intrigued by the idea of using…

Neural Networks Show Potential For Identifying Gamma Rays

25.08.2020 | Swiss National Supercomputing Centre | www.cscs.ch

With the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) that is currently under construction, researchers hope to observe highly energetic gamma rays that could lead to the discovery of new objects in and outside…

Neural Networks Show Potential For Identifying Gamma Rays

The factory of the future, batteries not included

24.08.2020 | MIT | www.mit.edu

Many analysts have predicted an explosion in the number of industrial “internet of things” (IoT) devices that will come online over the next decade. Sensors play a big role in those forecasts.…

The factory of the future, batteries not included

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E. coli bacteria offer path to improving photosynthesis

Engineers imitate human hands to make better sensors

Engineers produce a fisheye lens that’s completely flat

N95 Masks' Efficiency Can Be Restored With Electricity

Astronomers may have found a signature of life on Venus

Velcro-like food sensor detects spoilage and contamination

Producing leather-like materials from fungi

New E Ink color display features flicker-free video

Wool-like material can remember and change shape

New electronic skin can react to pain like human skin

Synthetic coating for the GI tract could deliver drugs or aid in digestion

Improved wearable, stretchable gas sensor using nanocomposites

Microwaving new materials

Neural Networks Show Potential For Identifying Gamma Rays

The factory of the future, batteries not included