Hiking gear fabric has cooling effect that may make your next smartwatch more comfortable
A team of Purdue University engineers has discovered that a type of fabric typically used for hiking gear has remarkable heat-conducting properties on par with stainless steel, potentially leading to wearable electronics that successfully cool both the device and the wearer’s skin.
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Imagine a rubber band that was capable of snapping itself many times over, or a small robot that could jump up a set of stairs propelled by nothing more than its own energy.
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have discovered how to make materials that snap and reset themselves, only relying upon energy flow from their environment.
The discovery may prove useful for various industries that want to source movement sustainably, from toys to robotics, and is expected to further inform our understanding of how the natural world fuels some types of movement.
Credit: UMass Amherst
Credit: UMass Amherst / Nature
Research paper: Autonomous snapping and jumping polymer gels https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-020-00909-w
News source: https://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/umass-amherst-researchers-discover
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Researchers at Empa and ETH Zurich have made wood compressible and turned it into a micro-generator. When it is loaded, an electrical voltage is generated. In this way, the wood can serve as a bio-sensor - or generate usable energy. To ensure that the process does not require aggressive chemicals, naturally occurring wood-degrading fungi take over the task of modifying the wood.
Credit: ACS Nano / Empa
Research Paper: Enhanced mechanical energy conversion with selectively decayed wood https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/11/eabd9138
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A research group developed a full-set wireless self-powered ammonia leakage monitor system for ammonia-energy ships.
Credit: Nano Energy
Research paper: A full-set and self-powered ammonia leakage monitor system based on CNTs-PPy and triboelectric nanogenerator for zero-carbon vessels https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211285522003500
News source: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/952016
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According to new research conducted at the Indiana University School of Optometry, new biomarkers found in the eyes could unlock the key to helping manage diabetic retinopathy, and perhaps even diabetes.
Credit: Ann Elsner and Joel Papay
Research paper: Quantifying frequency content in cross-sectional retinal scans of diabetics vs. controls https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0253091
News Source: https://news.iu.edu/stories/2021/07/iub/releases/26-diabetic-retinopathy-biomarkers-optometry-study.html
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Search "earth day quiz" in Google to start attending "earth day quiz" which will give answer for the question "Which animal are you?"
It will give any of these these animals ( honey bee, giant squid, komodo dragon, pangolin, cuttlefish, mantis shrimp, honey badger, woolly mammoth, red-capped manakin, sea otter, whooping crane, etc) as result after completing the earth day quiz i-e after choosing your options for five questions.
On clicking the result animal, Google will show search results for that animal's name.
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Researchers from King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) have developed a solar-powered crystallizer that can be used to treat brine produced by water desalination plants in an eco-friendly way.
Treating waste brine using a self-cleaning crystallizer that runs on solar power could be an eco-friendly and efficient way to make seawater desalination more sustainable.
Credit: Nature; Zhang et al.
Research Paper: Designing a next generation solar crystallizer for real seawater brine treatment with zero liquid discharge https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21124-4
News Source: https://discovery.kaust.edu.sa/en/article/1103/a-salt-solution-for-desalinating-brine
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Artificial intelligence is part of our modern life by enabling machines to learn useful processes such as speech recognition and digital personal assistants. A crucial question for practical applications is how fast such intelligent machines can learn. An experiment at the University of Vienna has answered this question, showing that quantum technology enables a speed-up in the learning process.
The physicists, in an international collaboration within Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, and the USA, have achieved this result by using a quantum processor for single photons as a robot. This work, which contributes to the advancement of quantum artificial intelligence for future applications, is published in the journal "Nature".
Credit: Rolando Barry, University of Vienna
Research Paper: Experimental quantum speed-up in reinforcement learning agents https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03242-7
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Google is showing a Doodle in some countries for celebrating Jeanne Baret's 280th Birthday on 27th July 2020.
Jeanne Baret was a French botanist and explorer. In 1766, Baret departed France aboard the ship Étoile (Star) as part of an exploratory expedition and upon her return made history as the first woman to circle the globe.
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MIT researchers have shown how to use scrap aluminum plus water to generate the flow of hydrogen needed for a particular practical application.
Credit: Reza Mirshekari
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