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Art of Paper-Cutting Inspires Self-Charging Paper Device

Despite advances in portable electronic devices, one thing remains constant: the need to plug them into a wall socket to recharge.

New Radar Scanner Tests Wind Turbine Blades for Defects

Thanks to the innovative radar scanner from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF, defects in the material composition of the wind turbine blades can now be detected with far greater accuracy and visualized in a cross-sectional view, thereby saving costs in production and operation.

Deep Learning Algorithm Holds Promise for Drug Development

A type of machine learning that works well with small data sets holds promise for drug discovery and development.

Jumping Droplets Whisk Away Hotspots in Electronics

Engineers have developed a technology to cool hotspots in high-performance electronics using the same physical phenomenon that cleans the wings of cicadas.

Climate Change to Increase Severe Aircraft Turbulence

The study is the first ever to examine the future of severe turbulence, which causes planes to undergo random up-and-down motions that are stronger than gravity.

Materials May Lead to Self-healing Smartphones

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, report that they have developed a self-healing polymeric material with an eye toward electronics and soft robotics that can repair themselves.

Groundwater Management with Smart Hand Pumps

University of Oxford researchers are using low-cost mobile sensors fitted to existing hand pumps to provide water resource data.

Floating Sensor Fingerprints Spilled Oil

A low-cost, floating fluorometer incorporating an array of four photodiode detectors detects and distinguishes among different types of crude and refined oil.

WAMI Sensor Takes First Flight

A wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) system has been carried in the internal payload bay of a small unmanned aircraft system for the first time.

Autonomous Crack Detection in Nuclear Power Plants

An advanced algorithm and a powerful machine learning technique to detect cracks based on the changing texture surrounding cracks on steel surfaces.

Device Predicts Hemorrhagic Shock

New monitoring technology can be used in battlefield and hospital settings to detect when a patient is going into hemorrhagic shock.

PolyU Develops Accurate Contactless 3-D Fingerprint Identification System

The minutiae features from the fingerprint ridges — such as ridge ending and bifurcation — are universally considered to be the most reliable of fingerprint details, ensuring that each fingerprint is unique.

Fewer Malfunctions and Lower Costs Thanks to Smarter Maintenance Model

Researchers at the University of Twente have developed a mathematical model for improving the maintenance schedule for trains, rails, aircraft, self-driving cars, robots and nuclear power plants.

New Ultrafast Flexible and Transparent Memory Devices Could Herald a New Era of Electronics

A new technique to produce the quickest, smallest, highest-capacity memories for flexible and transparent applications could pave the way for a future golden age of electronics.

Molecular "Treasure Maps" to Help Discover New Materials

Scientists at the University of Southampton, working with colleagues at the University of Liverpool, have developed a new method that has the potential to revolutionize the way we search for, design and produce new materials.

New Type of Sensor Material Developed

Hokkaido University scientists have succeeded in developing a nickel complex that changes color and magnetism when exposed to methanol vapor.

A Big Leap Toward Tinier Lines

For the last few decades, microchip manufacturers have been on a quest to find ways to make the patterns of wires and components in their microchips ever smaller, in order to fit more of them onto a single chip and thus continue the relentless progress toward faster and more powerful computers.

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