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Researchers prototype system for reading closed books
MIT researchers and their colleagues are designing an imaging system that can read closed books.Credit: Courtesy of Barmak Heshmat
MIT researchers and their colleagues are...
The sharing economy’s effect on business
Collaborative consumption is an expanding economic force in our country and globally, with consumers sharing everything from cars, bicycles and even agricultural equipment. It...
Lightweight, wearable tech efficiently converts body heat to electricity
Researchers have developed a new design for harvesting body heat and converting it into electricity for use in wearable electronics. The tech can be...
Link between walk, aggression discovered
Liam Satchell with a participant.Credit: Image courtesy of University of Portsmouth
The way people walk can give clues to how aggressive they are, a new...
Researchers Build World’s Largest Database of Crystal Surfaces and Shapes
Wulff shapes of the elements lithium, tin and hafnium taken from Crystalium. Image courtesy of the Materials Virtual Lab at UC San Diego
Nanoengineers at...
New technique generates human neural stem cells for tissue engineering, 3D brain models
This image show neuromuscular tissue engineering: hiNSCs (red) grown in co-culture with skeletal muscle (green), with cell nuclei visualized by blue DAPI staining.Credit: Dana...
Linking perception to action
A UC Santa Barbara researcher studying how the brain uses perception of the environment to guide action has a new understanding of the neural...
Mice born from ‘tricked’ eggs
Eggs can be 'tricked' into developing into an embryo without fertilisation, but the resulting embryos, called parthenogenotes, die after a few days because key...
New Fabric Uses Sun and Wind to Power Devices
A piece of fabric was woven with special strands of material that harvest electricity from the sun and motion. Credit: Georgia Tech
Fabrics that can...
Study links intelligence and chess skill
Michigan State University psychology professor Zach Hambrick, left, and graduate student Alexander Burgoyne discuss their findings that chess skill is related to intelligence.Credit: Michigan...
Group work can harm memory
Image credit: © astrid/ Flickr
A new study by psychologists from the University of Liverpool and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) reveals...
