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Building Better Batteries by Borrowing from Biology

“A research team at Osaka University has reported a new advance in the design of materials for use in rechargeable batteries, under high humidity conditions. Using inspiration from living cells that can block smaller particles but let larger particles pass …

Disordered Materials Could Be Hardest, Most Heat-Tolerant Ever

“Computational simulations predict new class of carbides that could disrupt industries from machinery to aerospace Materials scientists at Duke University and UC San Diego have discovered a new class of carbides expected to be among the hardest materials with the …

For All Times, For All Peoples: How Replacing the Kilogram Empowers Industry

“Two unusual things happened on Nov. 16, 2018. Fifty-five nations from every continent (except Antarctica) agreed on something, and metrology, the science of measurement, was major news! On that day in Versailles, France, the world’s measurement experts voted to …

Fujitsu Develops World’s First Single-Panel Antenna to Simultaneously Support Multiple 5G Communications

“Compact base stations can be deployed in stadiums, train stations, other sites Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the development of the world’s first equipment technology to enable simultaneous communications to four users with a single antenna panel in the …

News  Hadrian X

Hadrian X

“Developed by Fastbrick Robotics Ltd., an Australian robotic technology company, Hadrian X handles the automatic loading, cutting, routing and placement of all bricks, following a computer-aided design, to complete the end-to-end bricklaying of a house in up to 3 days …

How to melt gold at room temperature

“When the tension rises, unexpected things can happen – not least when it comes to gold atoms. Researchers from, among others, Chalmers University of Technology, have now managed, for the first time, to make the surface of a gold object melt …

InSight Is Catching Rays on Mars

“NASA’s InSight has sent signals to Earth indicating that its solar panels are open and collecting sunlight on the Martian surface. NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter relayed the signals, which were received on Earth at about 5:30 p …

Living electrodes with bacteria and organic electronics

“Researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Campus Norrköping, have developed a method that increases the signal strength from microbial electrochemical cells by up to twenty times. The secret is a film with an embedded bacterium: Shewanella oneidensis. Adding bacteria …

Making it crystal clear: Crystallinity reduces resistance in all-solid-state batteries

“Scientists at Tokyo Tech examined the mechanisms behind the resistance at the electrode-electrolyte interface of all-solid-state batteries. Their findings will aid in the development of much better Li-ion batteries with very fast charge/discharge rates. Designing and improving lithium-ion (Li-ion …

New Device Widens Light Beams by 400 Times, Broadening Possibilities in Science and Technology

“By using light waves instead of electric current to transmit data, photonic chips—circuits for light—have advanced fundamental research in many areas from timekeeping to telecommunications. But for many applications, the narrow beams of light that traverse these circuits …