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Experimental "smart" bandage speeds healing by zapping chronic wounds
Chronic wounds such as diabetic skin ulcers can be very slow to heal, potentially leading to amputations or sometimes even death. A new bandage could speed their healing by delivering electrical stimulation, but only as needed.
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Researchers 3D-printed a fully recyclable house from natural materials
With the United States facing a historic housing shortage, researchers from the University of Maine believe they may have found a solution to the problem. Using one of the world’s largest 3D printers, the university’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) recently created the first 3D-printed home made entirely of bio-based materials.
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Paralyzed Patients Can Operate Mind-Controlled Wheelchair
Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have demonstrated that paralyzed individuals can operate mind-controlled wheelchairs in a training experiment. The study is published in iScience.
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From science fiction to reality, 'no kill' meat may be coming soon
Imagine a way to produce meat without slaughtering animals. Instead of raising livestock on farms, Uma Valeti, a cardiologist, and co-founder of Upside Foods, dreamt of a way to "grow" meat in a production facility, by culturing animal cells.
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Experimental cancer vaccine shows promise in animal studies
An experimental therapeutic cancer vaccine induced two distinct and desirable immune system responses that led to significant tumor regression in mice, report investigators from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.
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LG's latest display can be stretched by 20 percent
LG Disply has developed a 12-inch stretchable display that can be extended in size to 14 inches, the company announced. The displays could one day be used in materials with irregular surfaces like clothes and wearables to display messages on the uniforms of first responders, for example.
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MIT engineers develop sensors for face masks that help gauge fit
Wearing a mask can help prevent the spread of viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, but a mask’s effectiveness depends on how well it fits. Currently, there are no simple ways to measure the fit of a mask, but a new sensor developed at MIT could make it much easier to ensure a good fit. The sensor, which measures physical contact between the mask and the wearer’s face, can be applied to any kind of mask.
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Scientists Create AI-Powered Laser Turret That Kills Cockroaches
Everyone wants to be able to just zap a bug and have it go away. But now, thanks to a recent development from Ildar Rakhmatulin, a research associate at Heriot-Watt University interested in machine learning and engineering, this dream is now a reality.
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Top 10 Future Technologies That Will Change Our World - PFM
Technology changes every day and advances rapidly every year. There is no denying it. – future – The Singularity is coming. Looking at history and how innovative we have become in this century, you see how limitless our possibilities are.
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Out of this world: Floating solar farm could power a million homes
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction - but Europe might one day be powered by giant floating solar panels orbiting the planet. The European Space Agency (ESA) has unveiled a plan to harvest the sun’s energy in space and beam it back down to Earth.
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Bioinspired robots interact with performers in new dance project
A collaboration between Neon Dance and Bristol Robotics Laboratory is due to open at The Place in London on 14 October. Prehension Blooms is a dance piece starring telepresence robots based on sand-dwelling organisms, which interact with human performers.
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An Australian startup is "growing" water for drought-parched California
Water is California's most precious commodity these days, as the state endures a drought that scientists are calling the worst in 1,200 years. State officials say more than 1,200 wells have run dry this year, a nearly 50% increase over the same period last year. California's water crisis is most severe in the San Joaquin Valley, the country's most productive agricultural region. This year's snowmelt and rain have not been enough to replenish already-depleted groundwater supplies.
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The first 'utility scale' renewable energy plant combining solar and wind generation with battery storage opens in the US
A utility-scale renewable energy plant using wind and solar combined with battery storage opened last week, a US first, with the potential of powering 100,000 homes with clean, reliable energy. The project gives us a glimpse into the future as the US shifts from fossil fuels to clean energy sources.
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ASML's Secret: An exclusive view from inside the global semiconductor giant
In The Netherlands stands one of the world's biggest drivers of technological progress: ASML. It supplies machines that make chips on a scale of just a few nanometers. And the world is crying out for chips.
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Plant-based hot foam kills weeds as effectively as chemical spray
A heated, plant-based foam has been shown to kill weeds as effectively as a commercial chemical spray and may be a safer, eco-friendlier alternative. “It’s really fascinating, it works very well regardless of the weed growth stage,” says Ilias Travlos at the Agricultural University of Athens, who conducted an independent study of the hot foam at two small olive groves in Greece.
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Your Kids Won't Even Know What High Beams Are
Headlights on new US cars may soon leap forward thanks to a little-noticed regulation that took effect in February, allowing cars on American roads to use lights that intelligently adapt their beam brightness and shape in ways that will utterly change our expectations of headlights. It's a change the insurance companies, safety advocates and I have been eagerly awaiting.
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Floating Artificial Leaf Turns CO2 Into Fuel
A new artificial leaf is light enough to float on water, where it can soak up sunlight and carbon dioxide from air, and use the water below to produce fuels. Researchers at Cambridge University tested their 100-square-centimeter artificial-leaf device outdoors on a river. Depending on the catalyst used, the device either splits water to produce hydrogen fuel, or converts carbon dioxide into syngas, a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen that is used to make other fuels like methanol. Fleets of such devices could be deployed on brackish water ponds, canals, and on seas, so as not to compete with land use, they say.
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Liquid robot can split into tiny droplets and reform into a blob
A soft robot made from droplets of a magnetic fluid can break itself up and reconstitute itself later when it encounters obstacles or narrow passages. Researchers say it could be used for targeted drug delivery in the future. Xinjian Fan at Soochow University in Taiwan and his colleagues used droplets of a ferrofluid, in this case magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles suspended in oil, to make a soft robot about a centimetre in size.
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World's Largest Carbon Removal Facility: "Project Bison" Will Remove 5 Megatons of CO2 Per Year by 2030
According to reports, a sprawling field in rural Wyoming, US, will soon be filled with shipping container-sized Carbon Removal boxes that are capable of pulling a massive amount of CO2 from the atmosphere to help tackle climate change.
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Drug Turns Cancer Gene Into ‘Eat Me’ Flag for Immune System
Tumor cells are notoriously good at evading the human immune system; they put up physical walls, wear disguises and handcuff the immune system with molecular tricks. Now, UC San Francisco researchers have developed a drug that overcomes some of these barriers, marking cancer cells for destruction by the immune system.
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