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Robots Get Some Skin in the Game
Researchers at the University of Tokyo are binding engineered skin tissue to complex humanoid robot forms. The…
High-tech Stickers Could Help Farmers and the Environment
A lot of people got into houseplants during the pandemic. I was among them. One of the things I learned was the…
Gas Separation Gets Flexible
Gas separation is essential for industries, from medical applications like extracting nitrogen and oxygen to carbon…
What Chimps Know That We’ve Forgotten
Who eats tree bark, dead wood, and ferns with antibiotic and anti-inflammatory effects? Chimpanzees.
Chimpanzees…
How Do Catalysts Work at the Atomic Level?
Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) developed a way to study electrochemical…
Eye Tracking Biomarkers May Improve Autism Diagnoses
A recent paper published in JAMA Network Open describes a research study of autism diagnosis using eye-tracking…
A Device Smaller than a Hair May Change Our Understanding of Physics
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have fabricated a device no wider than a human hair that will help…
MIT Makes Steel with Electricity
Boston Metal, an MIT spinout, is ready to commercialize a new steelmaking method that can potentially clean up…
The Placebo Effect of AI
A new study from Aalto University in Finland suggests that people perform better when they use AI because they…
QED-C Raises Quantum Awareness And Communication On Capitol Hill
The Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C) recently hosted a groundbreaking event: the first-ever Quantum…