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Underwater cameras get a new power source — sound!
Needing no batteries, a new digital camera can run almost continuously to offer new, deeper insights into the ocean world.
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Needing no batteries, a new digital camera can run almost continuously to offer new, deeper insights into the ocean world.
This thin, flexible and lightweight loudspeaker could reduce noise in loud spaces. It also might enable listeners to experience sound in new ways.
To protect crops against viruses in their home country of Taiwan, two teens invented a novel approach to fight blights.
Bacteria with tweaked genes pump out proteins that can be used in a 3-D printer. With microbes in the mix, the living ink can make drugs or suck up chemicals.
Here’s what allows you to plug in and power up the devices in your life.
To climb walls, robot feet need to alternately stick and let go. A novel adhesive can do that. Its stickiness is controlled by electric fields.
Piezoelectric materials produce an electric voltage when they are bent or squished. This can let us harvest electricity from movement.
Game Boy revolutionized the gaming industry. A newer version could help slow the rate of climate change.
An accidental discovery helps scientists generate electricity out of thin —but humid — air with bacteria-made protein nanowires.
The Parker probe’s first data is giving scientists a look at what’s to come as the craft moves closer to the sun over the next few years.