Bizarre Things: Matter & Energy
June 15, 2024
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June 13, 2024 — With their 'T-REX' method, researchers developed a glassy, amber-like polymer that can be used for long-term storage of DNA, such as entire human genomes or digital files such as ...
June 13, 2024 — Researchers have experimentally generated high-density relativistic electron-positron pair-plasma beams by producing two to three orders of magnitude more pairs than previously ...
June 13, 2024 — Researchers have engineered nanosized cubes that spontaneously form a two-dimensional checkerboard pattern when dropped on the surface of water. The work presents a simple approach to create complex ...
June 12, 2024 — Engineers have developed microscopic robots, known as microrobots, capable of swimming through the lungs to deliver cancer-fighting medication directly to metastatic tumors. This approach has shown ...
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June 12, 2024 — Engineers have created a patch that combines sensors and bacteria to interact with the ...
June 12, 2024 — Researchers have used inkjet printing to create a compact multispectral version of a light field camera. The camera, which fits in the palm of the ...
June 12, 2024 — Flexible piezoelectric sensors are essential to monitor the motions of both humans and humanoid robots. However, existing designs are either are ...
June 12, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated a new method that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and computer simulations to train robotic exoskeletons to ...
June 11, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated miniature soft hydraulic actuators that can be used to control the deformation and motion of soft robots that are less ...
June 11, 2024 — The need to transition away from fossil fuels to more sustainable energy production is critical. That's why a team of researchers is looking at a potential power source that not only produces no ...
June 11, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated a new method that could enable the large-scale manufacturing of optical qubits. The advance could bring us closer to a scalable quantum ...
June 11, 2024 — Researchers are breaking through the difficulties of robotic recognition of various common, yet complex, items. Their layered sensor is equipped with material detection at the surface and pressure ...
June 10, 2024 — If a material absorbs light, it will heat up. That heat must go somewhere, and the ability to control where and how much heat is emitted can protect or even hide such devices as satellites. An ...
June 10, 2024 — Nightmare material or truly man's best friend? A team of researchers equipped a dog-like quadruped robot with a mechanized arm that takes air samples ...
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June 10, 2024 — Researchers have developed -- and shared -- a process for creating brain cortical organoids -- essentially miniature artificial brains with functioning neural ...
June 10, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated the first chip-based 3D printer, a tiny device that emits reconfigurable beams of visible light into a well of resin that rapidly cures into a solid shape. The advance ...
June 10, 2024 — Scientists have created innovative soft robots equipped with electronic skins and artificial muscles, allowing them to sense their surroundings and adapt their movements in ...
June 6, 2024 — A research team has developed a liquid metal-based electronic logic device that mimics the intelligent prey-capture mechanism of Venus flytraps. Exhibiting memory and counting properties, the device ...
June 6, 2024 — Some say the next step in human evolution will be the integration of technology with flesh. Now, researchers have used virtual reality to test whether humans can feel embodiment -- the sense that ...
June 4, 2024 — Auxetics defy common sense, widening when stretched and narrowing when compressed. Researchers have now made the process of using them much easier, paving the way for new types of auxetic products -- ...
June 4, 2024 — Floating solar photovoltaic panels could supply all the electricity needs of some countries, new research has shown. The researchers calculated the daily electrical output for floating photovoltaics ...
June 4, 2024 — A team used experiments and simulations to quantify and predict how knit fabric response can be programmed. By establishing a mathematical theory of knitted materials, the researchers hope that ...
June 3, 2024 — MIT researchers developed a technique to combine robotics training data across domains, modalities, and tasks using generative AI models. They create a combined strategy from several different ...
June 3, 2024 — Scientists have employed artificial intelligence techniques to improve the design and production of nanofibers used in wearable nanofiber acoustic energy harvesters (NAEH). These acoustic devices ...
June 3, 2024 — Using unconventional statistical mechanics to understand fluid dynamics, a professor helped solve a 150 year old physics problem of how turbulent fluids move through a ...
May 29, 2024 — Advances in electrochromic coatings may bring us closer to environmentally friendly ways to keep inside spaces cool. Like eyeglasses that darken to provide sun protection, the optical properties of ...
May 29, 2024 — Researchers have managed to generate propagating spin waves at the nanoscale and discovered a novel pathway to modulate and amplify them. Their discovery could pave the way for the development of ...
May 29, 2024 — Researchers have shown that members of the public have little trouble in learning very quickly how to use a third thumb -- a controllable, prosthetic extra thumb -- to pick up and manipulate objects. ...
May 28, 2024 — A team has analyzed the risk and damage potential of hydrogen vehicles in tunnels and derived recommendations. Their conclusion? Any damage would be extensive, but its occurrence is ...
May 28, 2024 — Through a study of 1,002 participants, scientists have found that almost half (45.7 per cent) say they intend to use air taxis when they become available, with over one-third (36.2 per cent) planning ...
May 24, 2024 — Researchers have developed a method to make adaptive and eco-friendly sensors that can be directly and imperceptibly printed onto a wide range of biological surfaces, whether that's a finger or ...
May 22, 2024 — Researchers have engineered string-like resonators capable of vibrating longer at ambient temperature than any previously known solid-state object -- approaching what is currently only achievable ...
May 22, 2024 — In a new study, a team of researchers used research on fossilizing techniques to create a new method for sealing cracks and fractures in rocks and bedrock using a 'concretion-forming ...
May 21, 2024 — See how an autonomous robot created a shock-absorbing shape no human ever could -- and what it means for designing safer helmets, packaging, car bumpers, and ...
Monday, June 10, 2024
- Protocol for Creating 'wired Miniature Brains'
- Researchers Demonstrate the First Chip-Based 3D Printer
- Researchers Create Skin-Inspired Sensory Robots to Provide Medical Treatment
Thursday, June 6, 2024
- Liquid Metal-Based Electronic Logic Device That Mimics Intelligent Prey-Capture Mechanism of Venus Flytrap
- People Feel More Connected to 'tweezer-Like' Bionic Tools That Don't Resemble Human Hands
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
- A New Way of Designing Auxetic Materials
- Some Countries Could Meet Their Total Electricity Needs from Floating Solar Panels
- Unraveling the Physics of Knitting
Monday, June 3, 2024
- A Technique for More Effective Multipurpose Robots
- Enhancing Nanofibrous Acoustic Energy Harvesters With Artificial Intelligence
- The Unexpected Connection Between Brewing Coffee and Understanding Turbulence
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
- Electrochromic Films -- Like Sunglasses for Your Windows?
- Study Is Step Towards Energy-Efficient Quantum Computing in Magnets
- Public Have No Difficulty Getting to Grips With an Extra Thumb, Study Finds
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
- What Are the Risks of Hydrogen Vehicles in Tunnels?
- Close to 1 in 2 Surveyed Say They Would Use Air Taxis in the Future
Friday, May 24, 2024
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
- Strings That Can Vibrate Forever (Kind Of)
- 'Fossilizing' Cracks in Infrastructure Creates Sealing That Can Even Survive Earthquakes
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Friday, May 17, 2024
- Physicists Propose Path to Faster, More Flexible Robots
- Diamond Glitter: A Play of Colors With Artificial DNA Crystals
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
- Jet-Propelled Sea Creatures Could Improve Ocean Robotics
- Robotic 'SuperLimbs' Could Help Moonwalkers Recover from Falls
- Animal Brain Inspired AI Game Changer for Autonomous Robots
- Robots' And Prosthetic Hands' Sense of Touch Could Be as Fast as Humans
- A Simple Quantum Internet With Significant Possibilities
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
- Virtual Reality Becomes More Engaging When Designers Use Cinematic Tools
- Creating a Green Composite Material from Japanese Washi Paper
Monday, May 13, 2024
Thursday, May 9, 2024
- Good Vibrations: New Tech May Lead to Smaller, More Powerful Wireless Devices
- A Better Way to Control Shape-Shifting Soft Robots
- Discover Optimal Conditions for Mass Production of Ultraviolet Holograms
- Generative AI That Imitates Human Motion
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
- This Sound-Suppressing Silk Can Create Quiet Spaces
- Seeking Medical Insights in the Physics of Mucus
Monday, May 6, 2024
Friday, May 3, 2024
Thursday, May 2, 2024
- Random Robots Are More Reliable
- Significant New Discovery in Teleportation Research -- Noise Can Improve the Quality of Quantum Teleportation
- This Highly Reflective Black Paint Makes Objects More Visible to Autonomous Cars
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
- Marriage of Synthetic Biology and 3D Printing Produces Programmable Living Materials
- Time Zones and Tiredness Strongly Influence NBA Results, Study of 25,000 Matches Shows
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
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Friday, April 26, 2024
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Holographic Displays Offer a Glimpse Into an Immersive Future
- Researchers Show It's Possible to Teach Old Magnetic Cilia New Tricks
Thursday, April 18, 2024
- Octopus Inspires New Suction Mechanism for Robots
- Data-Driven Music: Converting Climate Measurements Into Music
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- How 3D Printers Can Give Robots a Soft Touch
- Two-Dimensional Nanomaterial Sets Record for Expert-Defying, Counter-Intuitive Expansion
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Thursday, April 11, 2024
- Trapped in the Middle: Billiards With Memory
- Star Trek's Holodeck Recreated Using ChatGPT and Video Game Assets
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Monday, April 8, 2024
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
- 'Smart Swarms' Of Tiny Robots Inspired by Natural Herd Mentality
- Plastic-Free Vegan Leather That Dyes Itself Grown from Bacteria
- Intelligent Liquid
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
- Elastocaloric Cooling: Refrigerator Cools by Flexing Artificial Muscles
- AI Writing, Illustration Emits Hundreds of Times Less Carbon Than Humans, Study Finds
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- Micro-Lisa! Making a Mark With Novel Nano-Scale Laser Writing
- Scientists on the Hunt for Evidence of Quantum Gravity's Existence at the South Pole
Monday, March 25, 2024
- The World Is One Step Closer to Secure Quantum Communication on a Global Scale
- A Self-Cleaning Wall Paint
- Artificial Nanofluidic Synapses Can Store Computational Memory
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
- Research Suggests How Turbulence Can Be Used to Generate Patterns
- Robotic Metamaterial: An Endless Domino Effect
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
- Molecular Crystal Motors Move Like Microbes When Exposed to Light
- Brain-Inspired Wireless System to Gather Data from Salt-Sized Sensors
Monday, March 18, 2024
- Backyard Insect Inspires Invisibility Devices, Next Gen Tech
- Two Artificial Intelligences Talk to Each Other
- Holographic Message Encoded in Simple Plastic
- Bridge in a Box: Unlocking Origami's Power to Produce Load-Bearing Structures
Friday, March 15, 2024
Thursday, March 14, 2024
- Advanced Army Robots More Likely to Be Blamed for Deaths
- An Electricity Generator Inspired by the Drinking Bird Toy Powers Electronics With Evaporated Water
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
- What Kinds of Seismic Signals Did Swifties Send at LA Concert?
- Robot ANYmal Can Do Parkour and Walk Across Rubble
- You Don't Need Glue to Hold These Materials Together -- Just Electricity
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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Monday, March 11, 2024
Friday, March 8, 2024
- Researchers Develop Artificial Building Blocks of Life
- CSI in Space: Analyzing Bloodstain Patterns in Microgravity
Monday, March 4, 2024
Friday, March 1, 2024
Thursday, February 29, 2024
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Monday, February 26, 2024
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Tuesday, February 20, 2024
- These Tiny Power Converters Run on Vibrational Energy
- Angle-Dependent Holograms Made Possible by Metasurfaces
- Science Fiction Meets Reality: New Technique to Overcome Obstructed Views