Scientists Are Close to Engineering Blood Vessels
Researchers from the University of Melbourne have created a fast, cost-effective, and scalable technique for engineering blood vessels from natural tissue. Led by ARC Future…
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Chilling Breakthrough: The Science Behind a Real-Life “Freeze Ray” Technology for the Air Force
A University of Virginia professor believes he has discovered how to create a freeze-ray device, inspired by the Batman villain, Mr. Freeze. Rather than being…
Innovative Liquid Cushioning Technology Promises Revolution in Safety Gear
New breakthrough in material design will help football players, car occupants, and hospital patients. A significant breakthrough in the field of protective gear has been…
MIT’s AI and Laser Duo Is Shaking Up How We Make Medicine
A collaborative research team from the MIT-Takeda Program combined physics and machine learning to characterize rough particle surfaces in pharmaceutical pills and powders. A team…
Improved Thermal Conductivity in Semiconductors: Heat Transfer Using Surface Plasmon Polaritons
Engineers have made a significant breakthrough in thermal management of semiconductors by discovering a new heat transfer mode using surface plasmon polaritons (SPP). This novel…
Harvesting Water From Desert Air: MIT’s Revolutionary Superabsorbent Hydrogel
A new material developed by MIT engineers exhibits “record-breaking” vapor absorption. MIT engineers have synthesized a superabsorbent material that can soak up a record amount…
Biocompatible Innovation: MIT’s Soft, Printable, Metal-Free Electrodes for Next-Gen Implants
A new Jell-O-like material could replace metals as electrical interfaces for pacemakers, cochlear implants, and other electronic implants. Do an image search for “electronic implants,”…
Chemical Reactions Spark Life Into Self-Folding Micro Origami Machines
Cornell researchers have devised a way to utilize chemical reactions for the self-folding of microscale origami machines, allowing them to work in dry, room-temperature conditions….
Light Control Breakthrough – Innovative Twist in Physics “A Blessing in Disguise!”
Scientists from Korea’s POSTECH and the US’ Northeastern University have successfully manipulated light using non-Hermitian meta-gratings, turning optical loss into a beneficial tool. They’ve developed…
Greener, Cheaper, and Charging Faster – A New Way To Manufacture Lithium-Ion Battery Electrodes
New manufacturing technique tackles a key obstacle confronting the electric vehicle sector. A research group led by Yan Wang, a researcher from Worcester Polytechnic Institute…
Harnessing Energy Waves: Smart Material Prototype Challenges Newton’s Laws of Motion
University of Missouri researchers designed a prototype of a small, lightweight active ‘metamaterial’ that can control the direction and intensity of energy waves. Professor Guoliang…
Tiny Yet Hazardous: Aerosols Produced by Contaminated Bubble Bursting Are Far Smaller Than Predicted
A cold sparkling water. Waves crashing on the beach. The crackle of a bonfire. Steam from a kettle. These factors not only contribute to a…
Fourier Transformations Reveal How AI Learns Complex Physics
Scientific AI’s “Black Box” Is No Match for 200-Year-Old Method Fourier transformations reveal how deep neural network learns complex physics. One of the oldest tools…
New MIT/Caltech Ingestible Sensor Could Help Doctors Pinpoint GI Difficulties
The sensor sends out its location as it moves through the GI tract, revealing where slowdowns in digestion may occur. Engineers at MIT and Caltech…
The Solution to Moon Dust: Researchers Develop Groundbreaking Liquid Nitrogen Spray
Researchers at Washington State University have developed a liquid nitrogen spray that can effectively eliminate almost all of the simulated moon dust from a space…
MIT Breakthrough: How To Efficiently Remove Carbon Dioxide From the Ocean
A new method for removing the greenhouse gas from the ocean could be far more efficient than existing systems for removing it from the air….
High-Tech “Smart Pills” Transform Diagnosis and Treatment of Gastrointestinal Disorders
The ingestible pills utilize magnetic fields to track movement through the Gastrointestinal tract with higher resolution and accuracy. A team of researchers led by Khalil…
Reconfigurable Antenna Merges Mechanical Engineering and Electromagnetics for Next-Generation Technology
Researchers create compliant mechanism-enabled, reconfigurable antenna. Reconfigurable antennas — those that can tune properties like frequency or radiation beams in real-time, from afar — are…
