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New frontier for 3d printing developed state-of-the-art soft materials able to self-heal

“The scientific community is focusing its research into the multiple applications of Hydrogels, polymeric materials which contains a large amount of water, that have the potential to reproduce the features of biological tissues. This aspect is particularly significant in the …

New Law of Physics Helps Humans and Robots Grasp the Friction of Touch

“Although robotic devices are used in everything from assembly lines to medicine, engineers have a hard time accounting for the friction that occurs when those robots grip objects – particularly in wet environments. Researchers have now discovered a new law of …

New Views of Mars Thanks to Intel Tech

“After the Perseverance rover’s landing on Mars, the world marveled at the remarkable new images from the planet’s surface. Earthlings can’t get enough of the Red Planet. And unbeknownst to most — even to some of the engineers …

NVIDIA Announces CPU for Giant AI and High Performance Computing Workloads

“NVIDIA today announced its first data center CPU, an Arm-based processor that will deliver 10x the performance of today’s fastest servers on the most complex AI and high performance computing workloads. The result of more than 10,000 engineering …

Orbital Marine launches world’s most powerful tidal turbine

“Scottish tidal energy company Orbital Marine Power has launched its 2MW tidal turbine from the Port of Dundee, sending it on its way to Orkney for commissioning and installation. Osprey Heavy Lift managed the operation to transfer the 680-tonne tidal …

Patching up your health

“Researchers at Osaka University and JOANNEUM RESEARCH develop ultrathin self-powered e-health patches that can monitor a user’s pulse and blood pressure, which may lead to new flexible motion-based energy harvesting devices Scientists at Osaka University, in cooperation with JOANNEUM …

Polymer-Based Coatings on Metallic Implants Improve Bone-Implant Integration

“Traffic accidents, tumor resections, and congenital diseases can cause significant trauma, which can lead to large bone deformations and/or bone loss. Although bone has some capacity to regenerate, large bone defects cannot be healed without major medical procedures. In …

Radio astronomers discover 8 new millisecond pulsars

“A group of astronomers has discovered 8 millisecond pulsars located within the dense clusters of stars, known as “globular clusters”, using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope. Millisecond pulsars are neutron stars, the most compact star known, that spin up …

Reducing blue light with a new type of LED that won’t keep you up all night

“To be more energy efficient, many people have replaced their incandescent lights with light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs. However, those currently on the market emit a lot of blue light, which has been linked to eye troubles and sleep disturbances. Now …

Regent is making a flying electric ferry with a top speed of 180 miles per hour

“A Boston start-up called Regent wants to make flying ferries the best way to travel between coastal cities. The start-up is developing an “electric seaglider” that can motor out of a harbor on a hydrofoil, take off at a low …