Super Wood Stronger Than Steel, Tougher than Titanium

Super Wood Stronger Than Steel, Tougher than Titanium

The Daily Journalist.   A way to make wood more than 10 times times stronger and tougher than before, creating a natural substance that is stronger than many titanium alloys has been discovered by engineers at the University of Maryland, [...]
New Technology Standard Could Shape the Future of Electronics Design

New Technology Standard Could Shape the Future of Electronics Design

The Daily Journalist.   Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered a way of enhancing the capabilities of an emerging nanotechnology that could open the door to a new generation of electronics. In a study published in [...]
New, More Powerful Depth Sensors Sensitive Enough for Self-Driving Cars

New, More Powerful Depth Sensors Sensitive Enough for Self-Driving Cars

The Daily Journalist. For the past 10 years, the Camera Culture group at MIT’s Media Lab has been developing innovative imaging systems — from a camera that can see around corners to one that can read text in closed books — by using [...]
Control Virtual Reality with Your Mouth

Control Virtual Reality with Your Mouth

How much reality can a person control with their mouth.  It virtual reality, it might be a bit more than real life. Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York have developed a new technology that allows users to interact [...]
Researchers Develop Wearable Solar Thermoelectric Generator

Researchers Develop Wearable Solar Thermoelectric Generator

A recent study, led by Professor Kyoung Jin Choi in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at UNIST has introduced a new advanced energy harvesting system, capable of generating electricity by simply being attached to clothes, windows, [...]
Quantum Computers Threaten to Destroy Internet Security As We Know It

Quantum Computers Threaten to Destroy Internet Security As We Know It

The Daily Journalist.   The era of fully fledged quantum computers threatens to destroy internet security as we know it. Researchers are in a race against time to prepare new cryptographic techniques before the arrival of quantum computers, [...]
Nanotech Cooling Curtain Offers Alternative to Air Conditioners

Nanotech Cooling Curtain Offers Alternative to Air Conditioners

 The Daily Journalist. Climate change is leading to ever higher temperatures and aridity in many areas, making efficient room cooling increasingly important. An ETH doctoral student at the Functional Materials Laboratory has developed an [...]
Nanotech Cooling Curtain Offers Alternative to Air Conditioners

Nanotech Cooling Curtain Offers Alternative to Air Conditioners

Climate change is leading to ever higher temperatures and aridity in many areas, making efficient room cooling increasingly important. An ETH doctoral student at the Functional Materials Laboratory has developed an alternative to electrically [...]
Veterans Receive DARPA's Revolutionary Prosthetic Luke Arm

Veterans Receive DARPA’s Revolutionary Prosthetic Luke Arm

A coordinated effort between DARPA and the Department of Veterans Affairs delivered a revolutionary prosthetic arm system to veterans living with amputation. Credit: DARPAAt a ceremony in New York on June 30th, two veterans living with [...]
Meet The Most Nimble Fingered Robot Ever Built, Dexner 2

Meet The Most Nimble Fingered Robot Ever Built, Dexner 2

Grabbing the awkwardly shaped items that people pick up in their day-to-day lives is a slippery task for robots. Irregularly shaped items such as shoes, spray bottles, open boxes, even rubber duckies are easy for people to grab and pick up, [...]
Detecting Never Agents With Finger Touch From A Lab-On-A-Glove

Detecting Never Agents With Finger Touch From A Lab-On-A-Glove

There’s a reason why farmers wear protective gear when applying organophosphate pesticides. The substances are very effective at getting rid of unwanted bugs, but they can also make people sick. Related compounds — organophosphate nerve [...]
Soldiers See Battlefield Clearly With Advanced Imaging Systems

Soldiers See Battlefield Clearly With Advanced Imaging Systems

The Daily Journalist.   On the military battlefield, atmospheric turbulence significantly deteriorates the performance of tactical and long-range imaging systems used for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations. In addition, [...]
Al-Based Smartphone Application Can Predict User's Health Risks

Al-Based Smartphone Application Can Predict User’s Health Risks

VTT has developed artificial intelligence (AI)-based data analysis methods used in a smartphone application of Odum Ltd. The application can estimate its users’ health risks and, if necessary, guide them towards a healthier lifestyle. [...]
Humanoid Robots To Replace Search And Rescue Workers

Humanoid Robots To Replace Search And Rescue Workers

The Daily Journalist.   Italian researchers are developing a humanoid robot to replace humans in search and rescue operations following disasters. Walk-Man is being taught to move and walk at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) [...]
Can Robots Write Meaningful News?

Can Robots Write Meaningful News?

Robots and computers are replacing people everywhere; doctors, pilots, even journalists. Is this leading to a dystopian society, or could it be something positive? With this in mind, researchers from the Media Management and Transformation [...]
Is FOG Computing More Secure Than Cloud Computing

Is FOG Computing More Secure Than Cloud Computing

Computer scientists in Italy are working on a new concept for remote and distributed storage of documents that could have all the benefits of cloud computing but without the security issues of putting one’s sensitive documents on [...]
PlugandWork Connects Existing Machines And Systems To Industrial Internet-Of-Things

PlugandWork Connects Existing Machines And Systems To Industrial Internet-Of-Things

Fraunhofer solutions integrate existing machines into modern production systems such as MES and SCADA. PLUGandWORK automatically generates a communication server for data exchange with other systems or IT systems. This means that medium-sized [...]
Cameras Can Steal Data From Blinking Computer Hard Drive Led Lights

Cameras Can Steal Data From Blinking Computer Hard Drive Led Lights

The Daily Journalist. Researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Cyber Security Research Center have demonstrated that data can be stolen from an isolated “air-gapped” computer’s hard drive reading the pulses [...]
Download DVD's In Seconds: Terahertz Wireless

Download DVD’s In Seconds: Terahertz Wireless

Hiroshima University, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, and Panasonic Corporation announced the development of a terahertz (THz) transmitter capable of transmitting digital data at a rate exceeding 100 gigabits [...]
Nordic Countries Are Bringing About An Energy Transition Worth Copying

Nordic Countries Are Bringing About An Energy Transition Worth Copying

The Daily Journalist.   What can we learn from the Nordic low-carbon energy transition given the new US leadership vacuum on climate change? A new study by Benjamin K Sovacool offers some important lessons. The Trump administration’s [...]