This visualization shows layers of graphene used for membranes. (University of Manchester) Engineers at the University of Exeter have developed…
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ESA Selects Contractor for JUICE Mission to Jupiter and Its Icy Moons
Juice, the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission, in the Jovian system. Airbus Defence & Space in France has been selected…
Researchers Develop a New Device for Studying Changes in T Cells
Scientists at the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a passive-flow microfluidic device for imaging latent HIV…
UCLA Unveils An Augmented Reality Sandbox
The Augmented Reality Sandbox allows students to interact with a miniature landscape, sculpting mountains, valleys, rivers and even volcanoes, with…
Aluminum “Yolk-and-Shell” Nanoparticle Boosts Capacity and Power of Lithium-ion Batteries
The gray sphere at center represents an aluminum nanoparticle, forming the “yolk.” The outer light-blue layer represents a solid shell…
Solid Electrolyte Paves the Way for Rechargeable Batteries with Almost Indefinite Lifetimes
Illustrations show the crystal structure of a superionic conductor. The backbone of the material is a cubic-like arrangement of sulphur…
New Technique Could Enable Chips with Thousands of Cores
Researchers from MIT have unveiled the first fundamentally new approach to cache coherence in more than three decades, a memory-management…
New System Converts MRI Scans into 3D-Printed Heart Models for Surgical Planning
3D-printed heart models. Engineers and computer scientists at MIT and Boston Children’s Hospital have developed a new system that can…
New Protein-Based Sensor Detects Viral Infection, Kills Cancer Cells
This schematic shows the procedure for introducing the sensor system into human cells. Biological engineers from MIT have designed a…
“Data Science Machine” Replaces Human Intuition with Algorithms
Engineers from MIT have developed a new system that replaces human intuition with algorithms. The “Data Science Machine” outperformed 615…