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This unassuming material is capable of capturing or releasing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in response to moisture swings.

Pulling carbon dioxide out of the air using moisture

A more efficient way to capture fresh water from the air

Bringing transformative potential to agriculture with a natural technology for ‘dimming’ genes

Staving off coral reef collapse via a new technique

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A reusable system that purifies water and builds itself

Deep Space Industries teams with UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory to demonstrate autonomous spacecraft maneuvering

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This Band Of Small Robots Could Build Entire Skyscrapers Without Human Help

Polymer implants could help heal brain injuries

Patently Obvious: Pitiful Patent System Has to Go

Who’s to Blame when Artificial Intelligence Systems Go Wrong?

Chulalongkorn University

Pusan National University

Lasers create custom medical devices, and make suturing easier

Researchers Work to Bring Cheaper, ‘Greener’ Lighting to Market with Inkjet-printed Hybrid Quantum Dot LEDs

Robot surrogates to train Marines

Innovative process to print flexible electronic circuits using a t-shirt printer

Targeting an early instigator of Alzheimer’s disease with new drugs

Sonic net could save birds and aircraft with wider implications

Cleaner and greener cities with integrated transparent solar cells

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Russian Academy of Sciences

Imperial College London

Osaka University

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

University of South Florida (USF)

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering

University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)

University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Jacobs School of Engineering

Sichuan University

The polyoxometalate power generator collects the natural atmospheric humidity and produces continuous electrical signals by the uneven distribution and directional movement of ions, realizing efficient collection and utilization of low-value energy. (Image: Nano Research, Tsinghua University Press)

Power from natural atmospheric humidity

A breakthrough to revolutionize polymer plastics recycling

Protecting computers against spy programs with a new cipher system

A new synthetic antibiotic strategy to defeat gram-negative bacteria like Salmonella, Pseudomonas and E. coli

Pairing this floating sponge with an oxidizing agent could help destroy harmful algal blooms. Adapted from ACS ES&T Water 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acsestwater.3c00202

Removing harmful algal blooms with a floating sponge

Junyi Zhao demonstrates using a simple ballpoint pen to write custom LEDs on paper (left). The same pens can be used to draw multicolored designs on aluminum foil (top right) and to create light up sketches (bottom right). (Images courtesy of Wang lab)

Handwritten electronics and devices from a ballpoint pen?

Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)

New York University Tandon School of Engineering

Peking University (PKU)

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT)

Tsinghua University (THU)

Tufts University