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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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Helping save endangered species with a new mathematical model

Computer security: Is this the start of cyberwarfare?

Knowledge for earnings’ sake

Free-swimming microbots for medical applications

Reality dawns for fast and flexible ionic transistors for bioelectronic devices

Griffith University

Prototype Lab in a Needle Could Make Real-time Mobile Laboratory Testing a Reality

Inexpensive perovskite LEDs now rival the efficiency if not the stability – yet – of much more expensive organic LEDs

Placecast Debuts Location-Based Mobile Marketing Technology ShopAlerts

A sample of LionGlass, a new type of glass engineered by researchers at Penn State that requires significantly less energy to produce and is much more damage resistant than standard soda lime silicate glass. Credit: Adrienne Berard / Penn State. Creative Commons

A revolutionary new type of glass requires significantly less energy to produce and is 10x more damage resistant

Wake Forest University

LiFi internet breakthrough: 224Gbps connection broadcast with an LED bulb

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Non-invasive brain stimulation technique could transform learning

New chip could allow antenna arrays to replace satellite dishes

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Polytechnic University of Milan

Keio University

Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)

Örebro University

Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

Tel Aviv University

San Francisco State University (SFSU)

Ioffe Institute

University of Zilina

Boyce Thompson Institute

Colorado State University (CSU)

University of Kentucky (UK)

University of Giessen

Uppsala University

Could AI replace humans in social science research?

Soon, satellites could replace expensive deep-?sea cables as the internet backbone. (Illustration: ETH Zurich / Yannik Horst)

A feasible internet backbone via satellite will soon eliminate the necessity of expensive deep-sea cables

Using just thin air and plastic waste to produce clean sustainable fuels

These flexible fibers, which are embedded with sensors and light sources, can be used to manipulate and monitor the connections between the brain and the digestive tract. Credits:Image: Courtesy of the researchers

New technology that can probe the neural circuits that influence hunger, mood, and a variety of diseases

Detecting inflammation non-invasively with a wearable sweat sensor

University of Vermont Medical Center

University of Huddersfield

University of St Andrews

Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO)

University of Paris-Sud