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312 Days in the Stratosphere

“What does a balloon do while drifting a year through the stratosphere? Earlier this year one of our systems set a new Loon flight duration record of 312 flight days, so we’ve been asking ourselves this question as the …

3D printing the first ever biomimetic tongue surface

“Scientists have created synthetic soft surfaces with tongue-like textures for the first time using 3D printing. This opens new possibilities for testing oral processing properties of food, nutritional technologies, pharmaceutics and dry mouth therapies. UK scientists led by the University …

60-year-old limit to lasers overturned by quantum researchers

“A team of Australian quantum theorists has shown how to break a bound that had been believed, for 60 years, to fundamentally limit the coherence of lasers. The coherence of a laser beam can be thought of as the number …

A Simple 3D Printed Robot

“Allow me to date myself. I grew up with erector sets and then LEGO. Later in life, I used 8020 to build prototypes types of systems I designed. There were usually scrap pieces around the house that my children used …

A team borrows solar panel tech to create ultrahigh-res OLED display

“The display would feature brighter images with purer colors and more than 10,000 pixels per inch. By expanding on existing designs for electrodes of ultra-thin solar panels, Stanford researchers and collaborators in Korea have developed a new architecture for …

ADDING a 3-Wire Laser to a CR-10S 3D Printer

“I wanted BOTH a 3D Printer AND a Laser - in one device. With minimal switcharoos necessary to go from one to the other. So, I modified my wonderful Creality CR10S 3D printer (an Instructables prize!) by adding an inexpensive “5 …

AMD to Acquire Xilinx, Creating the Industry’s High Performance Computing Leader

“AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Xilinx (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for AMD to acquire Xilinx in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion. The combination will create the industry’s leading high performance computing …

Autonomous boats could be your next ride

“Five years in the making, MIT’s autonomous floating vessels get a size upgrade and learn a new way to communicate aboard the waters. The feverish race to produce the shiniest, safest, speediest self-driving car has spilled over into our …

Azure Powered AI Freezer Monitor

“An anomaly detecting freezer monitor designed to work in ultra low temperature scientific freezers. The Azure Powered AI Freezer Monitor is a maker hardware based IoT monitor that uses machine learning, or ML, to provide early warnings of potential equipment …

Breakthrough quantum-dot transistors create a flexible alternative to conventional electronics

“Quantum dot logic circuits provide the long-sought building blocks for innovative devices, including printable electronics, flexible displays, and medical diagnostics Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and their collaborators from the University of California, Irvine have created fundamental electronic building …