Many people with diabetes endure multiple, painful finger pricks each day to measure their blood glucose. Now, researchers reporting in the journal ACS Sensors have developed a device that can measure glucose in sweat with the touch of a fingertip, and then a personalized algorithm provides an accurate estimate of blood glucose levels. Credit: Adapted from ACS Sensors 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.1c00139 Research paper: Touch-Based Fingertip Blood-Free Reliable Glucose Monitoring: Personalized Data Processing for Predicting Blood Glucose Concentrations https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acssensors.1c00139 News Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-05/acs-pss050521.php Playlist for Technology News Videos - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK2ccNIJVPpB_XqWWq_oaZGIDzmKiSkYc Health - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK2ccNIJVPpArLvIQIPxIkHzcSg6qPm0T ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkRrXUDwUgI

New research from Oxford Brookes University has found that the vertical turbine design is far more efficient than traditional turbines in large scale wind farms, and when set in pairs the vertical turbines increase each other’s performance by up to 15%. Credit: Oxford Brookes University Research paper: Numerical modelling and optimization of vertical axis wind turbine pairs: A scale up approach https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096014812100344X News Source: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/news/vertical-turbines-could-be-the-future-for-wind-farms/ Playlist for Technology News Videos - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK2ccNIJVPpB_XqWWq_oaZGIDzmKiSkYc ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EYg16afulg

In a report published in Resources Policy, researchers fromJapan and Sweden, analyzed the trends in global patent applications from the mining and minerals sector to reveal strategies for promoting R&D in mining-related climate change mitigation technology, or CCMT. Credit: Kyushu University/Fujii Lab/Science Graphics Research Paper: Trend and priority change of climate change mitigation technology in the global mining sector https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301420722003166 News Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/962720 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbmOgfJ86QM

Scientists have developed a new solar panel that can generate electricity at night. Researchers from Stanford University construct a device, which incorporates a thermoelectric generator that harvests electricity from the temperature difference between the PV cell and the ambient surrounding. They achieve 50 mW/m2 nighttime power generation with a clear night sky, with an open-circuit voltage of 100 mV, which is orders of magnitude higher as compared with previous demonstrations. Research Paper: Nighttime electric power generation at a density of 50 mW/m2 via radiative cooling of a photovoltaic cell https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0085205 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKNGiX9992I