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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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It’s Time To Start Judging Nonprofits Like For-Profits

The world’s fastest soft robots inspired by cheetahs

Filling Without Drilling

Better Barriers Can Help Levees Withstand Wave Erosion

via Columbia Engineering

Is It a Crow or a Raven? New Birdsnap App Will Tell You!

Unbreakable? An encryption key approach to security that is unclonable and not reverse-engineerable

Microbullet hits confirm graphene’s strength

The secret to 3-D graphene? Just freeze it

Researchers link absence of protein to liver tissue regeneration

The Scientific 7-Minute Workout

From Poop to Power: advances in recycling dirty water, and harvesting its content

Stunning Eco Stadium Scores Green Goal for 2010 World Cup

4D Printing to Rewrite Book on Cool Tech

Swinburne University of Technology

Mind reading equipment is much closer to becoming a reality than most people can imagine

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Electronic sensor the size of a single molecule could bring widespread benefits

How to produce the vital agricultural fertiliser, urea, at room temperature without using a lot of energy

Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM)

A CMA CGM ship at sea. Picture courtesy of CMA CGM.

A new device to sniff out the illegal wildlife trade

Princeton and Microsoft researchers have found a way to bring next-generation wireless technologies to bear on the massive problem of food waste, with a system that can effectively peek under the surface and determine the quality of a piece of fruit. The advance could help vendors optimize distribution and slash waste. Photos by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy

Bringing next-generation wireless technologies to bear on the massive problem of food waste

Mining is ripe for microreactors

Replacing chemical processing of rare earths with metal-loving microbes

The fungus (in red) collected all of the green plastic nanoparticles onto the first fungal threads encountering the polluted area, and cleaned up its surroundings. (Photo: Mafla Endara)

Can fungi help us deal with nanoplastics in soil?

Customized medication can be produced using laser 3D printing from powders that contain active ingredients. Image: Max Gmelch, SAOT

3D printing methods for manufacturing personalized medication

3D illustration of corona virus coronavirus COVID-2019 in microscope via Clinical Services Journal

AI tool helps to take a big step towards designing vaccines and therapies that are future-proof

University of Texas at Dallas (UTD)

The integration of biology and microelectronics using silk-based hybrid transistors

Causes of hydrogen generation and incessant accumulation within the cell in the aqueous rechargeable batteries CREDIT Korea Institute of Science and Technology

A breakthrough technology for the commercialization of cheaper, safer aqueous rechargeable batteries

Precooling homes in the middle of the day using renewable energy in the middle of the day can make a big difference

Fighting food waste: New system uses wireless signals in the sub-terahertz band to determine fruit ripeness

University of Toronto

Harnessing 40 percent of the sun’s heat to produce clean hydrogen fuel using only solar energy

Harnessing 40 percent of the sun’s heat to produce clean hydrogen fuel using only solar energy

The high-temperature electrothermal process is beneficial to soil fertility, with experiments showing germination rates improve by 20-30% in remediated soil. (Image courtesy of Tour lab/Rice University)

A rapid high-temperature process that removes heavy metals, organic contaminants from soils

A different way to generate electricity: Molecular thermal motion harvester devices

A schematic of ISOOS. CREDIT W. Xu, J. L. Li, Y. P. Li, H. F. Chen, S. Q. Yang, J. B. Zeng, Y. H. Wang. Networks of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles for Ocean Exploration: Advances and Prospects. Science and Technology Foresight, 2022, 1(2): 60-78.

Autonomous intelligent oceanic exploration is upon us

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Duke University

Artistic rendering of a photonic chip with both light and radio frequencies encoding data. Credit: B.Dong/University of Oxford.

Hardware processing for AI goes 3D resulting in 100-times enhancement in energy efficiency and compute density

Images created in DALL·E

Could quantum computing and artificial intelligence yield true generative AI?

Simulating models of hypothetical time travel can solve experimental problems that appear impossible to solve