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Machine Learning Used to Predict Synthesis of Complex Novel Materials

AI presents a roadmap to define new materials for any need, with implications in green energy and waste reduction

CRISPR-based Technology Targets Global Crop Pest

Designed to sterilize a fly species known to cause extensive crop damage, a new genetic technique replaces the need for harmful pesticides

Engineered Mattress Tricks Your Body to Fall Asleep Faster

When people feel sleepy or alert, that sensation is controlled in part by the ebb and flow of a 24-hour rhythm of their body temperature.

Sweating the Small Stuff: Smartwatch Developed at UCLA Measures Key Stress Hormone

The human body responds to stress, from the everyday to the extreme, by producing a hormone called cortisol.

Design Prevents Buildup of Scar Tissue Around Medical Implantsa

A new device, which doesn’t rely on immunosuppressing drugs, may assist efforts to develop an artificial pancreas to treat diabetes.

The Bacteria Powering a Truly Green Revolution in Personal Electronics

UMass Amherst team engineers biofilm capable of producing long-term, continuous electricity from your sweat

A "Nano-Robot" Built Entirely from Dna to Explore Cell Processes

Constructing a tiny robot from DNA and using it to study cell processes invisible to the naked eye…

MIT Engineers Develop Stickers That Can See Inside the Body

New stamp-sized ultrasound adhesives produce clear images of heart, lungs, and other internal organs.

Smart Microrobots Learn How to Swim and Navigate with Artificial Intelligence

Researchers from Santa Clara University, New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University of Hong Kong have been able to successfully teach microrobots how to swim via deep reinforcement learning, marking a substantial leap in the progression of microswimming capability.

VegSense Makes Sense for Forest Studies

Rice bioscientists use mixed-reality headset, custom software to measure vegetation in the field

Rice Engineers Get a Grip with ‘Necrobotic’ Spiders

Lab manipulates dead spiders’ legs with a puff of air to serve as grabbers

New COVID-19 Rapid-test Technology Performs PCR Faster than Similar Tests on the Market

Researchers at Columbia Engineering and Rover Diagnostics team up to develop a low-cost, portable platform that gives RT-PCR results in 23 minutes that match laboratory-based tests

Bringing Ancient Animals Back to Life—as Robots

In a university swimming pool, scientists and their underwater cameras watch carefully as a coiled shell is released from a pair of metal tongs.

Managing the Hype Around New Technology - Why Managers Should Focus on the Use Case

Industrial drone study poses question of whether emerging technologies are a solution looking for a problem to solve

‘Fitbit for the Face’ Can Turn Any Face Mask into Smart Monitoring Device

FaceBit can monitor wearer’s health, sense heart beat through the face

First-Ever Transient Pacemaker Harmlessly Dissolves in Body

Wireless, fully implantable device gives temporary pacing without requiring removal

Implanted Wireless Device Triggers Mice to Form Instant Bond

First optogenetics-based study of unrestricted social interactions within groups of animals

3 Questions: Teaching Computational Maker Skills Through Gaming

With FabO, PhD student Dishita Turakhia wants to empower students to learn digital fabrication by making video game objects and characters come alive.

Wireless Activation of Targeted Brain Circuits in Less Than One Second

Rice neuroengineers use magnetic fields to activate neurons in fruit flies