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A study led by scientists from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has successfully developed a super-strong, highly ductile and super-light titanium-based alloy using additive manufacturing, co...

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A team of engineers at Silicon Valley startup Light Field Lab is debuting its new high-resolution holographic display, SolidLight. In its announcement, officials with the company claim that it is...

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Imagine an iPad or a Kindle for the blind, with inflatable Braille that changes shape under a user's touch. A Cornell-led collaboration has made a crucial component for such a technology: A hapti...

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Chilean lawmakers on Wednesday approved a law establishing the rights to personal identity, free will and mental privacy, becoming the first country in the world to legislate on neurotechnology t...

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-09-neurotechnology-advances-chile-neuro-rights.html

Researchers at Harvard University and China University of Petroleum recently developed dynamic speckle holography (DSH), a new technique to measure three-dimensional (3D) maps of displacements th...

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-09-dynamic-speckle-holography-highly-effective.html

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, present a unique optical amplifier that is expected to revolutionize both space and fiber communication. The new amplifier offers high pe...

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-09-compact-amplifier-revolutionise-optical.html

Imagine having your own digital personal chef; ready to cook up whatever you want; able to tailor the shape, texture, and flavor just for you; and it's all at the push of a button. Columbia engin...

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-09-fully-autonomous-robot-chef.html

MIT researchers have developed a new method to 3D print mechanisms that detect how force is being applied to an object. The structures are made from a single piece of material, so they can be rap...

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-09-3d-printed-user-interacting.html

Researchers in UC Santa Barbara professor Yasamin Mostofi's lab have enabled, for the first time, counting a stationary seated crowd using WiFi signals, and without relying on people to carry a d...

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Equipped with a color 3D camera, an inertial measurement sensor, and its own on-board computer, a newly improved robotic cane could offer blind and visually impaired users a new way to navigate i...

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-09-modern-robotic-white-cane-21st.html

A team at LG Chem has announced on LG's News Room webpage that the company has developed a new kind of foldable screen display technology for use in mobile devices. As part of the announcement, o...

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-09-real-window-foldable.html

A University at Buffalo-led research team has modified noise-canceling headphones, enabling the common electronic device to "see" and translate American Sign Language (ASL) when paired with a sma...

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-09-headphones-language-doppler.html

A US judge has ruled that artificial intelligence can't get a patent for its creations, ruling that such a privilege is reserved for people.

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-09-patent-ai-inventor.html

If Rosie the Riveter had access to a new riveting technology, the character of WWII fame could have worked faster and made lighter products. Today, a newly patented riveting technique developed b...

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-09-riveting-technology-enables-lightweight-magnesium.html

A piece of science fiction technology could be one step closer to reality with a new development in haptic holograms.

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-09-tactile-holograms-future-tech.html

The team at Virgin Hyperloop has released a video detailing the company's plans for building its version of a hyperloop system. In the video, a voiceover describes the type of hyperloop the compa...

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-08-virgin-hyperloop-future.html

A team of researchers working at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology has created a new type of ink that can be used to print tiny 3D generators. In their paper published in the...

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-08-3d-printing-ink-tiny-thermo-generators.html

After dominating the electric vehicle market and throwing his hat into the billionaire space race, Tesla boss Elon Musk announced the latest frontier he's aiming to conquer: humanoid robots.

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-08-elon-musk-tesla-robot-physical.html

The spiderweb is an everyday architecture—non-monumental and easily overlooked. Yet artists and scientists are working to unlock the secret of its complex geometry, a mystery that could inspire...

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-08-decade-interdisciplinary-collaboration-3d-spider.html

Printable electronics could cause a proliferation of smart, connected devices, from household appliances that can communicate with each other to medical diagnostic sensors that can be placed on t...

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-08-team-technique-circuits-irregular-surfaces.html

Microwave engineers, infectious disease specialists and polymer scientists from the University of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt University and the University of Strathclyde have teamed up to create a no...

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-08-microwave-ambulance-technique-revolutionise-surfaces.html

A research team led by Prof. Liu Zhiqiang from the Institute of Semiconductors of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the team led by Prof. Gao Peng from Peking University and th...

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The Jamaican sprinter and her Olympic-record time captured everyone's attention. What's under foot, though, might have been a factor when Elaine Thompson-Herah broke a 33-year-old Olympic record ...

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Honda has announced on its News Room website the establishment of a startup called Ashirase, Inc.— the first new business venture to originate from the company's IGNITION program. Ashirase will...

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-07-vibrating-low-vision-people-city-streets.html

The touchscreen technology used in billions of smartphones and tablets could also be used as a powerful sensor, without the need for any modifications.

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-07-smartphone-screens-effective-sensors-soil.html

Designing future low-carbon energy systems to use power generated in excess of the grid's demands to produce hydrogen fuel could substantially lower electricity costs, according to new work publi...

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-07-green-hydrogen-production-curtailed-solar.html

A new wearable brain-machine interface (BMI) system could improve the quality of life for people with motor dysfunction or paralysis, even those struggling with locked-in syndrome—when a person...

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-07-wearable-brain-machine-interface-intentions-actions.html

Physicists of the Technische Universität Dresden introduce the first implementation of a complementary vertical organic transistor technology, which is able to operate at low voltage, with adjus...

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In a recent Nature Communications paper, a group of researchers led by Dr. Ning Yan of the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences at the University of Amsterdam showcases a practical membra...

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When their two-year-old son Biel started falling over a lot and had difficulty climbing stairs after learning to walk, Jaume Puig and his wife sought medical help to figure out the problem.

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