A team of researchers at the University of Cambridge successfully replaced a battery with algae to provide continuous power to a microprocessor. The tiny system is roughly the same size as an AA battery and runs an ARM Cortex M0+ … Read more
MIT engineers have developed a paper-thin loudspeaker that can turn any surface into an active audio source. This thin-film loudspeaker produces sound with minimal distortion while using a fraction of the energy required by a traditional loudspeaker. The hand-sized loudspeaker … Read more
Enlarge / Fragment of the Antikythera mechanism, circa 205 BC, housed in the collection of National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Image reader comments 37 with 29 posters participating Share this story The mysterious Antikythera mechanism—an ancient device … Read more
Ochre, an iron-rich rock, has been used as paint pigment by humans for hundreds of years in various applications, such as body paint, sunscreen and as a component in adhesives. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 … Read more
These little pigs are snoozing. Amanda Kooser/CNET If you’ve heard one porcine grunt, you haven’t heard them all. There’s a lot of communication happening through pig sounds, if you know what to listen for. A team of researchers has come … Read more
Homomorphic encryption is considered a next generation data security technology, but researchers have identified a vulnerability that allows them to steal data even as it is being encrypted. “We weren’t able to crack homomorphic encryption using mathematical tools,” says Aydin … Read more
Micro-sized cameras have great potential to spot problems in the human body and enable sensing for super-small robots, but past approaches captured fuzzy, distorted images with limited fields of view. Now, researchers at Princeton University and the University of Washington … Read more
One of the engineering headaches in the global marathon towards a large functional quantum computer is the control of many basic memory devices – qubits – simultaneously. This is because the control of one qubit is typically negatively affected by … Read more
That’s why it’s important not to lean too heavily on these licensed technologies, Luther said, and to instead allow human users to ultimately try to identify images — as genealogists, collectors, and family members tracking down their ancestors have long … Read more
You are here: 21 June 2021 Malaria kills around 400,000 people every year, with the vast majority of deaths occurring in children aged under five from the world’s most vulnerable societies. It is a global health crisis and there is … Read more