A new, flexible, and self-powered sensor made by magnetoelectric materials can convert mechanical stimuli to electrical signals for robots with a “soft touch”.
A New Low-Cost Parasite Diagnostic System Could Benefit Billions
A cost‐effective, automated parasite diagnostic system that does not require special sample preparation or a trained user.
Enterprise Data Breach: Causes, Challenges, Prevention, and Future Directions
There exist multiple points for deploying complementary data leak prevention and detection (DLPD) techniques in an enterprise environment.
Efficient, Neuron-Inspired Computing
Jeong et al. argue that a change in paradigm away from the CPU+Memory computing approach and towards a materials approach which mimics biological neurons as synapses is needed.
Dung beetles inspire a new generation of robot
Robots modelled after dung beetles leverage nature’s ingenuity with efficient, space-saving object-rolling mechanics.
Study challenges theory of population collapse on Easter Island
Satellite imagery suggests that islanders lived sustainably rather than overexploiting resources.
Rose Marks, a botanist studying resurrection plants
Rose Marks uses her climbing skills in remote regions of South Africa to study how water-deprived plants might help develop drought-tolerant crops.
This haptic sleeve is moving wearable technology beyond smartwatches
A haptic sleeve combines a new kind of on-demand information with soft textiles, taking haptic technology to new levels.
How the bias in algorithms can help us spot our own
People recognize their own biases in algorithms’ decisions more than they do in their own—even when those decisions are the same.
The colorful secret behind stingrays’ electric blue spots
Dive into the mesmerizing world of sharks and rays, where vibrant blues emerge through never-before-seen structural colors.