Exoskeleton and robotic arm reduce factory lifting strain by up to 65% - More and more robots are assisting workers in factories. However, human-robot collaboration is still far from seamless. Researchers from Prof. Lorenzo Masia's team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now developed ...
Scientists May Have Discovered How To Heal Damaged Kidneys - Researchers have uncovered a molecular pathway that appears to block kidney regeneration after injury. The body’s ability to repair damaged organs is surprisingly limited, especially after serious injuries to the heart or kidneys. Now, UCLA researchers have found that a drug originally developed to...
Flexible AMOLED phone panel prices face pressure amid ongoing memory cost rise - Global smartphone buyers may see continued pricing pressure across display supply chains as a weak handset recovery and rising memory costs weigh on panel makers. In China and other markets, aggressive promotions have not revived replacement demand, leaving flexible AMOLED panels under the heaviest pressure...
Advances in materials science are helping unlock secrets of nanomaterials - New instruments on the horizon promise the most precise tools yet to study and experiment on the smallest and most complex materials ever manufactured. In a paper published in the journal Nature Materials, University of Cincinnati ...
EU bets on digital euro to cut US tech addiction - The EU believes a digital euro is the answer to cutting its dependence on U.S. payment systems like Visa and Mastercard, as well as Apple Pay and Google Pay, as the bloc seeks to favor European firms over others.
The Amazon’s Mysterious “Ghost Dog” Has Been Hiding a Big Secret - Camera traps are revealing that the Amazon’s “ghost dog” is less rare than feared but still depends on protected forests. For decades, the short-eared dog (Atelocynus microtis) has ranked among the least understood carnivores in Latin America, and perhaps among the least understood canids anywhere....
Pressure and Ultrasonic Flow Sensing for Smarter Fluid Systems - Modern fluid systems demand accurate, reliable monitoring to detect inefficiencies, prevent failures, and optimise performance. Engineers often face challenges with measurement accuracy at low flow rates, maintenance from mechanical wear, and complex calibration processes. This paper explains how non-invasive...
A Commodore Boombox: The 1350 as You’ve Never Heard it Before - No, this isn’t another product from [PeriFractic]’s revived company, though we hope he’s taking notes. This is, in fact, a hack on the beloved 1530 Datasette, using the tape mechanism …read more
Scientists Discover Troubling Link Between Processed Foods and Preschool Behavior - Early childhood diets higher in ultra-processed foods were associated with more behavioral and emotional challenges two years later. The preschool years are a critical period for both brain development and the formation of lifelong eating habits. New research led by the University of Toronto suggests...
Rickrolling the World Cup - Sometimes, hacking requires a certain amount of restraint, especially when you find a system woefully unsecured. It would be so easy to play some pranks, but [bobdahacker] chose not to …read more
The Trains With Rubber Tires - The train was one of the game-changing inventions that defined the Industrial Age. No more would humanity rely on tempestuous animals to haul goods and passengers great distances across the …read more
Coherent 2D/3D van der Waals epitaxy enables single-crystal perovskite heterostructures - A strategy for coherent epitaxy of 2D/3D van der Waals perovskite heterostructures is shown to achieve atomically sharp interfaces, enable direct visualization of ordered ligand passivation, and produce spiral structures with chiroptical activity. The method is scalable to macroscopic single-crystal thin...
One Commodore, Five Displays - If you had one monitor back in the 8-bit era, instead of having to wait to use the family TV, you were already amongst the blessed. If you had five, …read more
After Decades of Mystery, Researchers Locate a Missing Page of the Archimedes Palimpsest - A newly identified Archimedes Palimpsest leaf could help recover lost ancient mathematics using modern imaging techniques. A page from one of the world’s most important ancient manuscripts has resurfaced after being missing for decades. Researchers have identified a long-lost leaf from the Archimedes...
Coherent 2D–3D van der Waals perovskite epitaxial heterostructures - Coherent 2D–3D van der Waals perovskite heterostructures are grown by cross-dimensional epitaxy, yielding atomically sharp interfaces, controllable domains, spiral chiroptical structures and stable gate-tunable rectification.
AI data center buildout fuels optical interconnect race, but 6-inch InP wafers hit supply wall - Technology giants are continuing to expand AI computing infrastructure, driving demand for high-performance optical interconnect components. US optical communications leaders Coherent and Lumentum are actively developing 6-inch indium phosphide (InP) wafer production technology. Industry sources said...
