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UK hosts ‘world’s first’ hub for drones, future flying taxis
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UK hosts ‘world’s first’ hub for drones, future flying taxis

The inaugural drone flight from the Coventry vertiport carried a six-bottle pack of prosecco. A pop-up urban port for delivery...
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NASA funds lab to demonstrate ‘replicator’ 3D printer to produce cartilage in space
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NASA funds lab to demonstrate ‘replicator’ 3D printer to produce cartilage in space

Nicknamed 'The Replicator,' the breakthrough volumetric additive manufacturing technology co-developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the University of California,...
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First-of-its-kind cosmic ray sensor successfully observes tsunami waves
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First-of-its-kind cosmic ray sensor successfully observes tsunami waves

Tokyo Bay tunnel. A cross-section diagram details how the tunnel is situated below Tokyo Bay and the blue star marks...
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Researchers look to disrupt energy and health care industries with miniature pulsed power system
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Researchers look to disrupt energy and health care industries with miniature pulsed power system

Researchers at the University of Houston plan to develop a miniaturized pulsed power system that will power mobile hand-held MRI...
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System helps severely motor-impaired individuals type more quickly and accurately
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System helps severely motor-impaired individuals type more quickly and accurately

In the Nomon interface, a small analog clock is placed next to every option the user can select. (A gnomon...
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First laser-drilled microplastic filter tested in a wastewater treatment plant
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First laser-drilled microplastic filter tested in a wastewater treatment plant

59 million holes in the filter plate of the first laser-drilled filter for the filtration of microplastics from municipal wastewater....
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Development of stretchable and printable free-form lithium-ion batteries
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Development of stretchable and printable free-form lithium-ion batteries

Credit: Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) A Korean research team has developed a soft, mechanically deformable, and stretchable...
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Novel double helix yarn piezoresistive sensor for pulse monitoring
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Novel double helix yarn piezoresistive sensor for pulse monitoring

Figure A shows a common weaving technique. Figure B shows the double helix yarn adopted by Professor Hu’s team (the...
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Unlimited 3D printing for space
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Unlimited 3D printing for space

Credit: BEEVERYCREATIVE A standard 3D printer cannot produce anything bigger than the size limits of the printer itself. But this...
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‘TechWorks’ brings dreams of Jordan inventors to life
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‘TechWorks’ brings dreams of Jordan inventors to life

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the age of COVID, Jordanian mechanical engineer Saliba Taimeh pondered how to deal with one...
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Bendy robotic arm twisted into shape with help of augmented reality
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Bendy robotic arm twisted into shape with help of augmented reality

The malleable arm is mostly bendy, with a rigid part at the end (P6-P5). Credit: Imperial College London Imperial researchers...
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Energy-harvesting wearable device made from recycled waste
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Energy-harvesting wearable device made from recycled waste

Graphical abstract. Credit: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2022). DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c20984 Wearable devices could soon be entirely made of recycled...
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Observing time crystals on a quantum computer
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Observing time crystals on a quantum computer

Qubit layout on ibmq_manhattan and ibmq_brooklyn chips with its 65 qubits (for the former, whole-device entanglement was demonstrated recently).The 57...
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First solar canal project is a win for water, energy, air and climate in California
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First solar canal project is a win for water, energy, air and climate in California

An artist’s rendering of a solar canal. Credit: Robin Raj, Citizen Group & Solar Aquagrid Mounting evidence suggests the western...
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Expanding the horizons of sustainable ceramics
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Expanding the horizons of sustainable ceramics

Credit: Brunel University Churning out the world's toilets, tiles, plates and pipes, the resource-guzzling ceramics industry can go a long...
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New 3D body-mapping tech helps consumers, the environment
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New 3D body-mapping tech helps consumers, the environment

3D printed body forms are part of the College of Human Ecology’s Cornell Digital Fashion BodyScan Laboratory, where Jie Pei...
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An open-source database to help visually impaired pedestrians navigate cities
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An open-source database to help visually impaired pedestrians navigate cities

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new dataset released by a New York University Tandon School of Engineering research team and...
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An AI assistant for material discovery
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An AI assistant for material discovery

For a given materials performance metric, several JARVIS (Joint Automated Repository for Various Integrated Simulations) components can work together to...
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A new way to store sustainable energy: ‘Information batteries’
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A new way to store sustainable energy: ‘Information batteries’

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A future powered by sustainable energy sources could save the world from devastating climate change and...
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Reshaping the world of research through remote experimentation
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Reshaping the world of research through remote experimentation

Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory We all remember the impact of stay-at-home-orders on our everyday lives in spring 2020. However, it...
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