自然与生物多样性
How mixed reality is helping scientists study forests
To measure vegetation in the wild, researchers set up a Microsoft HoloLens as a mixed reality sensor to feed their application called VegSense.
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自然与生物多样性
Algae sex could save corals from climate change
Researchers already knew the importance of algae known as dinoflagellates to the health of coral as the oceans warm, and have now confirmed the tiny creatures not only multiply by splitti...
气候行动
Ancient Mars was more like Iceland than Idaho
New research indicates that, more than 3 billion years ago, seasons in Gale Crater on Mars were probably something like those in Iceland.
新兴技术
How excess heat is being harnessed into solar power electricity
Arrays of aligned single-wall carbon nanotubes could channel wasted heat and greatly raise the efficiency of solar energy systems, report researchers.
健康与医疗系统
This wireless sensor would give epilepsy patients more freedom
Wiring a brain to record epileptic seizures binds a patient to a machine. It’s uncomfortable, to say the least, but engineering students want to untether them.
自然与生物多样性
How cleaning up sulfur-emitting coal plants could improve local health
Cleaning up or replacing coal-fired power plants that lack sulfur pollution controls could help nearby residents breathe cleaner, healthier air, according to a new study that measured the...
健康与医疗系统
This app could help Parkinson sufferers beat paralysis
Engineering students at Rice University designed an iPhone app to help patients with Parkinson’s disease overcome a symptom known as “freezing,” in which the legs temporarily refuse to fo...
新兴技术
Gentle nudges teach robots to better assist us
Like toddlers, robots can use a little help as they learn to function in the physical world. A new program uses gentle physical feedback to guide machines toward the most helpful, human-l...
第四次工业革命
We need to give our brains difficult tasks to understand 'real thinking'
Neuroscientists say a full understanding of the complexity of the human brain will require new research strategies that better simulate real-world conditions.
第四次工业革命
These 3-wheeled nanocars are the size of just one molecule
Scientists are driving three-wheeled, single-molecule “nanoroadsters” with light and, for the first time, seeing how they move.
第四次工业革命
These nanotubes can self assemble into wires
The strong force field emitted by a Tesla coil causes carbon nanotubes to self-assemble into long wires, a phenomenon scientists are calling “Teslaphoresis.”
第四次工业革命
Is this the only 2D superconductor?
Scientists have determined that two-dimensional boron is a natural low-temperature superconductor. In fact, it may be the only 2D material with such potential.