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02/13/2020 / By Michael Alexander

Seashell-inspired shatterproof glass: Researchers engineer strong composite glass based on mother of pearl that can resist impact

Despite their delicate appearance, seashells are surprisingly durable. This unexpected durability comes from the tough, impact-resistant substance known as nacre, also known as mother of pearl. Nacre is an organic-inorganic composite material that also gives seashells their signature iridescence. It is made up of microscopic calcium carbonate tablets mortared together by proteins. Arranged like bricks, […]

02/11/2020 / By Ralph Flores

Reusing carbon dioxide: Scientists capture and convert it into useful molecules

Researchers at Michigan Technological University have developed a novel device that captures carbon dioxide (CO?) and converts it into useful products. The device, which the team presented at the Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration’s annual meeting in Denver, works just like a carbon scrubber to remove CO? from flue gas emitted from power plants. But unlike other scrubbers, which industries are […]

02/09/2020 / By Arsenio Toledo

French researchers claim to have created metallic hydrogen in a lab: Material can “conduct electricity indefinitely at room temperature”

Metallic hydrogen is a state of hydrogen wherein the element is able to conduct electricity. Scientists have spent close to a century attempting to create this material. A team of French researchers now claim that they’ve done it. Normally, hydrogen isn’t a great conductor. However, physicists since the 1930s have suspected that if hydrogen were to be […]

02/09/2020 / By Michael Alexander

Updating fluid-powered machines: Scientists design bizarre-looking lionfish powered by a blood-like compound

You’ve heard of robots that can run, lift, jump and crawl. Now, prepare to see one that can bleed. In a paper published in the scientific journal Nature, a joint team of researchers from Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania detailed how they built a soft robotic lionfish, complete with a multi-functional circulatory system. […]

02/07/2020 / By Lance D Johnson

World’s first hybrid expedition cruise ship sets sail for the Arctic: The Roald Amundsen is powered by marine gas oil and BATTERIES

Anyone who has ever operated a vehicle in the cold winter months of the North has had to deal with a dead battery. Who wouldn’t want to hop aboard a cruise ship, partially dependent on batteries, and set sail for the Arctic? The world’s first hybrid expedition cruise ship is scheduled to sail the Northwest […]

02/07/2020 / By Michael Alexander

Engineers develop robot gripping arm that “tastes” using bacteria

Much like how octopuses and squids use their tentacles, a new biohybrid robot developed by a joint team of researchers uses its fingers to “taste” the world around it. Created by a team of researchers from the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the biohybrid robot uses a bioengineered strain […]

02/06/2020 / By Edsel Cook

Engineers create nanophotonic structures that can compute using “light and waves”

Analog computing might get a new lease on life thanks to metamaterials that control electromagnetic waves. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) developed a metamaterial whose tiny structures manipulate light to solve mathematical equations. “Photonic calculus” encodes parameters into the properties of an electromagnetic wave. Once the wave passes through the metamaterial, its properties get altered by nanostructures. The modified electromagnetic wave serves […]

02/04/2020 / By Lance D Johnson

This uncanny AI can guess what you look like by analyzing voice recordings

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working on an AI project that can accurately map what people look like just by analyzing voice recordings from the internet. The researchers published their first paper on the project: “Speech2Face: Learning the Face behind a Voice.” The researchers trained the AI neural networks using millions of YouTube […]

02/03/2020 / By Arsenio Toledo

Say goodbye to flat tires: Michelin develops new ‘puncture-proof’ airless tires

Flat tires may soon be a thing of the past. Michelin and General Motors (GM) have announced the development of a prototype for production-ready airless tires, which could roll out and replace old pneumatic rubber tires by 2025. Both companies say they have been developing the airless tires for the better part of two decades. Michelin calls their […]

01/28/2020 / By Arsenio Toledo

Mining the next frontier: NASA invests in optical mining tech for use on asteroids, the moon

NASA is investing in optical mining technology that will make it easier for resources to be extracted from the moon and, potentially, asteroids. NASA, through its Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, will begin exploring the feasibility of developing technology that combines robotic rovers with mining tech that could turn mining in space from a science fiction […]

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