A porous film devised by researchers at the University of Massachusetts can collect the electrical charges naturally present in humidity and convert them into an electric current.
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STEM CELL TREATMENT RESTORES FEELING, MOVEMENT AFTER SPINAL CORD INJURY
The 500,000 people who suffer spinal cord damage each year have had limited options for regaining feeling and movement. Now they have another.
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EXTRACTING CARBON FROM THE OCEANS, NOT AIR
Carbon capture technology—sucking excess carbon from the air and then storing it—has grabbed not only headlines, but billions of dollars in speculative investments.
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PLANT-BASED PLASTIC THAT DOESN’T TURN INTO MICROPLASTIC
Microplastics—those invisible granules of plastic that remain after a plastic container has degraded—cover the Earth from the ocean floor to the tops of Himalayan mountains.
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FULL POWER, SCOTTY! FUSION ENGINE FOR SPACE FLIGHT READY FOR LAUNCH
RocketStar, a development-stage company, says it has successfully tested a novel ion-drive rocket engine that gives 50 percent more thrust than conventional fuels, in part by incorporating a form of nuclear fusion.
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ENZYME MAY BE KEY TO ALZHEIMER’S
Clots of amyloid and tau proteins gumming up spaces between brain cells are signs of Alzheimer’s Disease but are no longer thought to be its cause.
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PATCH LETS PEOPLE SPEAK WITHOUT VOCAL CORDS
A small, self-energizing patch worn on the front of the throat can translate the movement of neck muscles into spoken words.
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FLATLAND: SCIENTISTS ARE BUILDING A CATALOG OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS
Graphene, a sheet of carbon atoms a few atoms thick, is seen as a miracle material: it’s 200 times tougher than steel per unit of weight, is an excellent electrical conductor, and weighs only a fifth as much as aluminum.
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TOP TREND 2024, EV GO FU: CENTURY-OLD BATTERY DESIGN STALLS EVs
Owners of some electric vehicles (EVs) are finding their new cars have an Achilles heel: a battery design more than a century old.
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NEW OPTICAL DISC HOLDS MORE INFORMATION THAN 5,000 DVDs
Scientists have made an optical disc from a new material called "dye-doped photoresist with aggregation-induced emission luminogens" (AIE-DDPR) that can store a “petabit” of data, equivalent to the capacity of more than 5,000 DVDs.