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Self-powered artificial synapse mimics human color vision
As artificial intelligence and smart devices continue to evolve, machine vision is taking an increasingly pivotal role as a key enabler of modern technologies. Unfortunately, despite much progress, machine vision systems still face a major…
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Eight with MIT ties win 2025 Hertz Foundation Fellowships | MIT News
The Hertz Foundation announced that it has awarded fellowships to eight MIT affiliates. The prestigious award provides each recipient with five years of doctoral-level research funding (up to a total of $250,000), which…
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Lotions and perfumes affect the air near our skin
Personal care products influence the chemistry of the air swirling around us.
Lotion and perfume disrupt chemical reactions that occur between ozone and skin oils, researchers report May 21 in Science Advances. More work is needed to…
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Building a Library of Reverberation with the Echo Thief
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Chris Warren, aka the Echo Thief, sits in a chair in the center of his sound lab…
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Engineers develop self-healing muscle for robots
A University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering team is another step closer to developing soft robotics and wearable systems that mimic the ability of human and plant skin to detect and self-heal injuries.
Engineer Eric Markvicka, along with…
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Predicting underwater landslides before they strike
Below ocean wind farms, oil rigs and other offshore installations are mammoth networks of underwater structures, including pipelines, anchors, risers and cables, that are essential to harness the energy source. But much like terrestrial…
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Robot Talk Episode 123 – Standardising robot programming, with Nick Thompson
Claire chatted to Nick Thompson from BOW about software that makes robots easier to program.
Nick Thompson is CEO of BOW and exited founder of One Beyond Ltd, an international software…
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Males weren’t always bigger than females in this hominid species
An ancient, distant human cousin from southern Africa called Paranthropus robustus has for the first time revealed molecular clues to its evolutionary status.
Protein sequences preserved in four partial P. robustus teeth from…
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Electronic tattoo gauges mental strain
Researchers gave participants face tattoos that can track when their brain is working too hard. Published May 29 in the Cell Press journal Device, the study introduces a non-permanent wireless forehead e-tattoo that decodes brainwaves to measure…
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