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What Is the Real Cost of an Industrial Robot Arm?
The price of industrial robots has dropped more than 25 percent since 2014, and is forecast to drop an additional 22 percent by 2025. What is the real cost of an industrial robot arm?
Video: Learn How Bubbles Form Inside a Lithium-air Battery
Understanding how these bubbles form during discharges could improve air batteries that have three times the energy capacity of lithium-ion batteries.
Video: Triggering Artificial Photosynthesis to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
The process has the potential to create technology that could significantly reduce greenhouse gases linked to climate change as well as a way to produce energy.
Common Pesticide Damages Honey Bees Ability to Fly
Biologists at the University of California San Diego have demonstrated for the first time that a widely used pesticide can significantly impair the ability of otherwise healthy honey bees to fly, raising concerns about how pesticides affect their capacity to pollinate and the long-term effects on the health of honey bee colonies.
Using Light to Manipulate Water May Open Door to New Microfluidic Diagnostic Devices
The project could be used to separate oil from water at an oil drilling rig or for use in repealing water from a surface
How a Spider Web Design Can Help Fight Cancer
A team at a Korean research university has used the design of a spider web to develop a biosensor platform that sets a new bar for detection speed.
Clean Water from a Plant-Based Membrane
A team of researchers has developed a plant-derived material that can be used to purify water, potentially being far more effective than current petroleum-based membrane materials.
Sensor Taps Diagnostic Value of Sweat
A wristband sensor collects sweat, measures its molecular constituents and electronically transmits data for analysis and diagnostics.
Edinburgh Instruments Launches FLS1000 Photoluminescence Spectrometer
Edinburgh Instruments, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-end photoluminescence steady state and lifetime instrumentation, has recently announced the launch of their new FLS1000 Photoluminescence Spectrometer.
Bruker Introduces the AVANCE™ NEO NMR Research Platform
Bruker, a leader in the manufacture of high-performance scientific instruments and high-value analytical and diagnostic solutions, recently announced the launch of the AVANCE NEO platform, Bruker’s next-generation nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) electronics console in the AVANCE series.
Aquatic Diversity and Water Quality According to Algal DNA
A water quality index based on DNA sequences of diatoms negates the need to identify each species visually.
Making Batteries from Glass Bottles
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering have used waste glass bottles and a low-cost chemical process to create nanosilicon anodes for high-performance lithium-ion batteries.
Researchers Develop Membranes That Remove Viruses from Drinking Water
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have developed novel ultrafiltration membranes that improve the virus-removal process from treated municipal wastewater used for drinking in water-scarce cities.
Researchers Make Major Breakthrough in Smart Printed Electronics
A team of scientists has fabricated printed transistors consisting entirely of 2-D nanomaterials for the first time.
New Adhesive Sensor Can Save Patients the Discomfort and Pain of Intravenous Drips
A new adhesive sensor can save patients the discomfort and pain resulting from leaky intravenous drips.
3-D-Printed Model of Stenotic Intracranial Artery Enables Vessel-Wall MRI Standardization
A collaboration between stroke neurologists at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and bioengineers at the University of Massachusetts has led to the creation of a realistic, 3-D-printed phantom of a stenotic intracranial artery that is being used to standardize protocols for high-resolution MRI, also known as vessel-wall MRI, at a network of U.S. and Chinese institutions.
Computers Create Recipe for Two New Magnetic Materials
Material scientists have predicted and built two new magnetic materials, atom-by-atom, using high-throughput computational models.
The Final Frontier for Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE Winners
The top two Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE winners, along with post-competition R&D initiatives, have been announced.
Spectrometer with Increased Stability and Lower Limits of Detection for Enhanced Fuel Quality Analysis
Spectro Scientific introduced Version 8 of its SpectrOil® Series analyzers including a new spectrometer for fuel analysis, the SpectrOil® M/F-LD.
Crowdfunding a Consumable Spherical Water Bottle — the Ooho!
A team of entrepreneurs affiliated with Skipping Rocks Lab has started a crowdfunding effort to mass-market a consumable water bottling device that produces what they call the Ooho!