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UBCO researchers light the way to cleaner water

“Fluorescence lighting helps detect impurities in water Shining a beam of light into potentially contaminated water samples may hold the key to real-time detection of hydrocarbons and pesticides in water. UBC Okanagan researchers are testing the use of fluorescence to …

Virgin Galactic Successfully Completes First Fully Crewed Spaceflight

“Virgin Galactic today announced that VSS Unity successfully reached space, completing the Company’s fourth rocket-powered spaceflight. Today’s flight was the 22nd test flight of VSS Unity and the first test flight with a full crew in the cabin …

A 3D printer made entirely at EPFL

“EPFL students have made a high-performance 3D printer that can print structures measuring just a few microns across. Six months ago, EPFL professors Christophe Moser and Jürgen Brugger were in the market for a printer. But all the options were …

A new look at colour displays

“Researchers at Linköping University have developed a method that may lead to new types of displays based on structural colours. The discovery opens the way to cheap and energy-efficient colour displays and electronic labels. The study has been published in …

Better gripping with intelligent picking robots

“Production, warehouse, shipping - where goods are produced, stored, sorted or packed, picking also takes place. This means that several individual goods are removed from storage units such as boxes or cartons and reassembled. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology …

Building a better biosensor polymer

“Conquering a chemical challenge to control the structure of a polymer opens a path to better biosensors. A new organic (carbon-based) semiconducting material has been developed that outperforms existing options for building the next generation of biosensors. An international research …

Chinese astronauts install tools on first spacewalk outside new space station

“For the first time, two astronauts have worked outside of China’s space station, completing only the second spacewalk in the history of the country’s space program. Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo began the six-hour and 46-minute extravehicular activity …

Elon Musk’s Boring Company gets approval to build tunnels in Florida

“Elon Musk’s Boring Company got a step closer to building another tunnel to transport people in Tesla cars, this time in Florida. On Tuesday evening, Fort Lauderdale approved a proposal from The Boring Company to build tunnels between its …

Flight 9 Was a Nail-Biter, but Ingenuity Came Through With Flying Colors

“It has been a week of heightened apprehension on the Mars Helicopter team as we prepared a major flight challenge for Ingenuity. We uplinked instructions for the flight, which occurred Monday, July 5 at 2:03 am PT, and waited …

Harvard-led physicists take big step in race to quantum computing

“Team develops simulator with 256 qubits, largest of its kind ever created A team of physicists from the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms and other universities has developed a special type of quantum computer known as a programmable quantum …