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Blog: Energy
Researchers have developed a battery that uses hemoglobin as an electrochemical reaction facilitator, functioning for around 20-30 days.
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Blog: Electronics & Computers
The open source code library — snnTorch — has surpassed 100,000 downloads and is used in a wide variety of projects, from NASA satellite tracking efforts to semiconductor companies optimizing chips for AI.
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Blog: Energy
Researchers led by Genki Kobayashi at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research in Japan have developed a solid electrolyte for transporting hydride ions at room temperature.
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Blog: Materials
Researchers constructed an electrocrystallization strategy to induce zinc texture growth. The adsorption of DMA induces Zn (002) texture growth and inhibits harmful side reactions.
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Blog: Energy
The transition to a society without fossil fuels means that the need for batteries is increasing at a rapid pace. One option is a sodium-ion battery, where table salt and biomass from the forest industry make up the main raw materials.
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Blog: Green Design & Manufacturing
Microgrids are an excellent way of addressing multiple challenges facing our national electricity supply. They support resiliency and flexibility and offer a sensible way to integrate renewables.
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Blog: Design
The new system is an electronic tattoo a few micrometers thick, which is designed to arouse a tactile sensation, enabling a person to perceive a touch.
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Blog: Research Lab
This marks the first time researchers have used the technology to generate hair follicles, which play an important role in skin healing and function.
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Blog: Materials
A research team from the University of Virginia has found a way to extract lithium from geothermal brines. The team’s method is called Targeted Extraction of Lithium with Electroactive Particles for Recovery Technology (TELEPORT).
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Blog: Energy
Researchers have improved on approaches that dissolve the Li-ion batteries in a liquid solution to reduce the amount of hazardous chemicals used in the recycling process.
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Blog: Aerospace
Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic is at the precipice of groundbreaking historic opportunity with the launch of its Peregrine Mission One (PM1), which, if successful, will make it the first U.S. commercial spacecraft to land on the Moon.
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Blog: Software
Software is a key component of automation, and with AI, software developers will be able to create more customized and optimized solutions for various tasks and challenges.
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Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Find out which five of our quizzes were the most popular in 2023.
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Blog: Materials
Which videos were the most popular this year? Find out, as we’ve curated the top 5 Tech Briefs videos from 2023. Relive their greatness here.
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
If you missed the most-popular engineering stories of 2023 on Tech Briefs, see the list below.
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Blog: Design
Choosing a present for an engineer is almost as daunting as performing the tasks of an engineer. With that in mind, we here at Tech Briefs aim to make your life easier with regards to the former.
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Blog: Materials
A new laser-based technique could speed up the discovery of promising metamaterials for real-world applications.
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Blog: Design
For the first time, researchers have succeeded in printing a robotic hand with bones, ligaments, and tendons made of different polymers using a new laser scanning technique.
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Blog: Design
In the winter of 2019, the National Football League hosted its Helmet Challenge Symposium in Youngstown, OH, bringing together 300 engineers, manufacturing experts, and innovators from across the country.
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Blog: Design
LIGO scientists and engineers working together to observe gravitational waves have achieved the remarkable feat of surpassing the quantum limit.
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Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The desire to understand how the brain generates and patterns behavior has driven rapid methodological innovation in tools to quantify natural animal behavior.
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Blog: Automotive
NeuroPair’s Fibermag treatment — which aims to help patients of Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) recover — took home the distinguished honor on Friday, November 10 in the heart of New York City.
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Blog: Medical
Robotic prosthetic ankles that are controlled by nerve impulses allow amputees to move more “naturally,” improving their stability.
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Blog: Data Acquisition
Big data and artificial intelligence are being used to model hidden patterns in nature, not just for one bird species, but for entire ecological communities across continents.
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Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
Taking inspiration from music-streaming services, engineers have designed the simplest way for users to program their own exoskeleton assistance settings.
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Blog: Medical
Virtual reality therapy could allow those with hoarding disorder to rehearse relinquishing possessions in a simulation of their own home, which could help them declutter in real life.
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Blog: Medical
Researchers have created smart, advanced materials that will be the building blocks for a future generation of soft medical microrobots.
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Blog: Green Design & Manufacturing
This past year’s Technology and Society articles in Tech Briefs magazine describe different ways engineers are making significant contributions to improving our lives.
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Blog: AR/AI
A Salk team has created GlowTrack, a non-invasive movement tracking method that uses fluorescent dye markers to train AI.
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