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3D-Printed Microstructure Forest Facilitates Solar Steam Generator Desalination

WASHINGTON, July 23, 2024 — Faced with the world’s impending freshwater scarcity, a team of researchers in Singapore turned to solar steam generators (SSGs), which are emerging […]

Trash-Sorting Robot Mimics Complex Human Sense of Touch

WASHINGTON, June 11, 2024 – Today’s intelligent robots can accurately recognize many objects through vision and touch. Tactile information, obtained through sensors, along with machine learning algorithms, […]

Harvesting Water from Air with Solar Power

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 2023 – More than 2.2 billion people currently live in water-stressed countries, and the United Nations estimates that 3.5 million die every year from […]

Wearing Your Heart (Monitor) on Your Sleeve

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2023 – Nearly 200 million people around the globe have coronary heart disease, which accounts for about one in every six deaths, according to […]

The Making of a Mona Lisa Hologram

WASHINGTON, May 30, 2023 – Holograms are often displayed in science fiction as colorful, life-sized projections. But what seems like the technology of the future is actually […]

Human-Machine Interfaces Work Underwater, Generate Their Own Power

WASHINGTON, August 9, 2022 – Wearable human-machine interface devices, HMIs, can be used to control machines, computers, music players, and other systems. A challenge for conventional HMIs […]

Electrode Design Paves Way for Better Biofuel Cells, Electrochemical Devices

WASHINGTON, May 24, 2022 — Enzyme electrodes are useful in a range of applications, including biosensing systems and electrochemical devices. Biofuel cells (BFCs) are specially promising candidates for […]

New Approach Needed for Forecasting Corrosion Within Bridges, Concrete Structures

WASHINGTON, March 29, 2022 — The most common cause of degradation and failures of reinforced concrete structures is chloride-induced corrosion of its embedded steel. This is a […]

Folding Design Leads to Heart Sensor with Smaller Profile

WASHINGTON, March 29, 2022 — As advances in wearable devices push the amount of information they can provide consumers, sensors increasingly have to conform to the contours […]