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08/22/2018
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By Edsel Cook
This new cloaking material renders objects — and people — practically invisible
What do you think of a thin sheet that can trap almost all of the infrared light that hits it? Well, how about draping the sheet on things that need to be hidden from the heat-hunting electronic eyes of aerial drones? Wisconsin-based researchers reported creating a new material that can turn objects and people invisible […]
08/02/2018
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By Edsel Cook
Scientists create an electronic nose that can smell potential hazards such as spoiled food
Your smartphone may soon be able to catch a whiff of anything nasty in the air. German researchers have created a computer chip-sized electronic nose that can learn from the scents it encounters, an article in Alpha Galileo reported. The olfactory sensor is part of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)’s “smelldect” project. It can […]
04/04/2018
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By David Williams
Blindness reversed in mice with artificial photoreceptors made of gold and titanium
They were blind, but now they see. Lab mice in China were given the ability to see again by a group of researchers thanks to the use of gold and titanium oxide as replacement materials for natural photoreceptors. This is the focus of a new study that was recently published in the journal Nature Communications, […]
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