HEADLINES ARCHIVE
Researchers Develop Implantable Sensor that Dissolves After Use
Overcoming both performance and biocompatibility issues, the research team has found a solution that would make a second surgery to remove an implantable sensor wholly unnecessary.
New Development in LCDs Allows Screens to Be Viewed in Perfect Color from Any Angle
A team of researchers from Russia, France and Germany, at MIPT’s Laboratory of Functional Organic and Hybrid Materials, have tackled viewing problems associated with LCD screens.
Industrial-strength Pharmaceutical Assembly Line
An innovative assembly-line architecture, similar to the technology used to manufacture computer chips, is being tested for precise manufacture of drug microparticles.
Trust and Equality are Important to People Interacting with Robots and AI According to New Study
Equal access and social responsibility should be priorities for policymakers in the ongoing development of AI and robotics.
Watch: A Carbon-free Process for Aluminum Smelting
Oxygen is the only by-product of a new aluminum production process devised by Rio Tinto and Alcoa Corporation.
What Makes Ice So Slippery?
Researchers from the University of Amsterdam and MPI-P have a theory behind what makes ice so slippery.
Cloaking Technology May Shield Objects Underwater
Researchers designed an underwater acoustic ground cloak by engineering material with properties not typically found in nature, rendering an object invisible.
Watch: Smart Window Development, the Skim Reaper, Wet Wipe Ban in UK
This week's engineering brief covers smart windows, ATM security and the UK's wet wipe ban.
Constructing Emergency Shelters with Used Plastic Bottles
Typically, after disaster strikes, supplies such as food, medicine and bottled water are sent to the affected location. With untold numbers of plastic bottled water sent to such sites, how the plastic bottles are disposed of after use become, understandably, a minor consideration.
Researchers Closer to a Cocaine Breathalyzer
Researchers from the University at Buffalo have developed a low-cost chip that brings them one step closer to developing a breathalyzer that works much like an alcohol breathalyzer but instead of alcohol, the device would be capable of detecting cocaine.
Watch: Lithium-Sulfur Battery Uses Plastic to Solve Energy Storage Problems While Lowering Plastic Waste
The new method puts ink-free plastic that is soaked in a sulfur-containing solvent in a microwave, and then turns that into batteries as a carbon scaffold.
Smart Windows are an Illuminating Development
Window glass incorporating micro mirrors functions as compound parabolic concentrator lenses to optimally reflect sunlight with low restrictions in visibility.
BWXT Announces Breakthrough Medical Isotope Manufacturing Technology
A new process to manufacture molybdenum-99 will enable a stable North American supply of this critical diagnostic imaging radionuclide.
U.K. to Consider Wet Wipe Ban
Amid mounting concern for plastic pollution levels, the U.K. is considering an eventual ban on wet wipes containing plastic — the kind used for personal hygiene and those used to clean surfaces.
Paper Suggests That with Advances in 3D Printing Come Unexpected Threats
Advancing industries such as the aerospace industry with jet engine parts or the medical industry with prosthetic limbs, additive manufacturing — better known as 3D printing — is making more and more things possible.
Watch: Infection-fighting Microbeads Show Promise in Burn Wound Simulations
Simulations showed that microbead treatment is unlikely to be effective on its own, but when combined with a technique called debridement, it could significantly reduce or eliminate infection.
MOF Sensors Have Sulfur Dioxide in the Pocket
A porous material with pockets embedded into its structure is a promising material for sensing noxious gases.
New System is an Eco-Friendly Solution for Removing Impurities in Natural Gas
Researchers from the Colorado School of Mines have created a new two-part system that separates impurities in natural gas.
Watch: The Promise of Self-Assembling Computational Systems
Custom-designed silicon microparticles that both assemble and disassemble themselves could form the basis for creating artificial muscles, as well as reconfigurable computer systems.
New Material Means Stride for Bioprinting
Researchers have developed a new material that can mimic multiple types of natural human soft tissues.