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Don’t Throw Stones! Inside the Smart Solar Greenhouse
Solar greenhouses generate electricity and grow healthy crops (read more)
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Turning ‘Ol Sawbones to ‘Ol Screwbones
Making surgical screws from bones (read more)
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Hard, hard, hard… chewy: Glassy Carbon
New form of carbon that’s hard as a rock, yet elastic, like rubber (read more)
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3-D Printed Bionic Skin for Touchy Feely Robots
3-D-printed ‘bionic skin’ could give robots the sense of touch (read more)
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When Life Hands You Oranges…. Water Purification With Peel
Wastewater cleaned thanks to a new absorbent material made from fruit peels (read more)
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Track My Tendons! Keeping Tabs on Damaged Tissue
University of Utah bioengineers detect early signs of damage in connective tissues such as ligaments, tendons and cartilage (read more)
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But Can it Catch? Chemical Computer Recognises a Sphere
The prototype of a chemical computer detects a sphere (read more)
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The Lego Synthesiser: Sound Shaping Metamaterial Developed
Sound-shaping super-material invented (read more)
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Soft-Touch Robotics, Coming to a Rub Shop Near You
New robot has a human touch (read more)
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Modified Sawdust Mops Up Oil Spills
Sawdust reinvented into super sponge for oil spills (read more)
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Screw Your Noisy Drone, We’ve Got Electric Bubbles! MIT Make Ultra Lightweight Solar Cell
MIT develop thinnest and lightest solar cells ever (read more)
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Swiss Scientists Beat Off Rivals to Develop ‘Soft Gripper’
Technologists in Lausanne develop robotic fingers with a gentle touch (read more)
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But How Do You Get the Lid Off? Mesoglue Revolutionises Nano-Stickiness
A glue that binds metal to metal to glass to you-name-it, sets at room temperature, and requires little pressure to seal (read more)
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Glowing With Health – Fluorescent Agent Helps Cancer Surgery
Injectable Agent Illuminates Cancer During Surgery (read more)
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Seeking (and finding) the Soft-Bodied Jumping Robot
By seamlessly blending soft and rigid body parts — a structural innovation used by animals and insects — a team of Harvard scientists has created a new kind of durable, soft-bodied jumping robot (read more)
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Lifesaving Nano-Tattoo Monitors Bloodsugar
This first-ever example of the flexible, easy-to-wear device could be a promising step forward in noninvasive glucose testing (read more)