Imagine being able, with a small device on your skin, to monitor your blood sugar levels and detect if you have had too much alcohol. Engineers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have developed a prototype of such a wearable that can continuously monitor several health stats–glucose, alcohol, and lactate levels–simultaneously in real-time. This multi-tasking […]
Month: August 2022
Revolutionary New Qubit Platform Could Transform Quantum Computing
This article was viewed using a digital device that uses the bit as its primary unit of information. It can be either 0 or 1. Scientists around the globe are working to create a new type of computer that uses quantum bits or qubits. These qubits can simultaneously be 0 or 1 and could solve complex problems better […]
New Innovative Tool Reveals Unexpected Semiconductor Properties
Discovery uncovers the role of oxygen impurities within semiconductor properties Researchers investigating the properties of semiconductors combined with thin oxide sheets discovered a surprising source of conductivity that is derived from oxygen atoms within. Scott Chambers, a materials scientist from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory presented the findings of the team at […]
NeuroMechFly: A Morphologically Reliable Biomechanical Model of a Fly
Drosophila’s Digital Twin Professor Pavan Ramdya, School of Life Sciences at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) says that NeuroMechFly was built using two types of data. To build a biomechanical model that is morphologically accurate, we first took a fly and did a CT scan. We also had data from the fly’s real limb movements. This […]
The Surprising Bacterial Nanowire Discovery Could Lead to Living and Self Repairing Electrical Circuits
The cooling of Electrons in Bacterial Nanowires Accelerates The ground below our feet and beneath the ocean floor is an electricly-charged grid that bacteria has created by “exhaling” excess electrons from tiny nanowires in an oxygen depleted environment. Yale University researchers are studying how to increase this natural electrical conductivity in nanowires that are 1/100,000.00th the […]
Scientists Test a New Geothermal Energy System
Scientists have created a unique system that will help them harness energy from deep below the ground. The Stimulation and Flow System, the newest rock star from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and its partners is designed to study how water travels underground through very hot rocks and then transmits heat to surface. Several components, one […]
Patent-Pending Technology Transforms “Waste Carbon” into Valuable Chemicals and Useful Elements
Patent-pending process to remove biofuel contaminants from wastewater using a non-additive process that produces hydrogen to power its own operation Biofuel researchers have long sought to find a way to make biofuels that can convert waste from food crops, sewage, and other sources of renewable carbon into fuels. This would also keep waste carbon out […]
Photosynthesis Power: A Reliable, Renewable Biological Photovoltaic Solar Cell
This system is comparable in size to an AAA battery. It contains a non-toxic type of algae called Synechocystis which harvests energy from the sun via photosynthesis. This tiny electrical current is then used to power a microprocessor by interacting with an aluminum electrode. The system is made from inexpensive and easily recyclable materials. It can be easily […]
Ultrafast signal processing could be made possible by laser pulses. Computers could run a million times faster with these laser pulses
Complex scientific models can be simulated on the computer, and large data volumes such as editing video material require a lot of computing power and time. Researchers from the Chair of Laser Physics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) and a team from the University of Rochester in New York have demonstrated how the speed of fundamental computing […]
Protein-Based Logic Circuits: Printable and Self-Assembled
Scientists created simple logic functions using self-assembled protein-based circuits in a proof of concept study. This work shows that stable digital circuits can be made that exploit the quantum-scale properties of electrons. The problem with creating molecular circuits is the fact that they become less reliable as the circuit’s size decreases. Because electrons used to create current […]