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Science Innovations

23-03-2022
Tough and Stretchable Ionogels
Researchers at NC State University have developed new materials that fall under the broad category of ionogels that are tough and stretchable. Ionogels are polymer networks that contain salts that are liquid at room temperature. Such salts are called ionic liquids. The researchers have made ionogels that are nearly 70% liquid, but have remarkable mechanical properties. They dissipate a lot of energy when deformed, which makes them very difficult to break. Ionogels have advant...
16-03-2022
Robots to Check BP
Simon Fraser University researcher Woo Soo Kim has developed a technology by which humanoid robots can check blood pressure. The traditional blood pressure procedure was replaced by replicating the folding mechanisms of leeches in their design of 3-D printable origami sensors. The leech-inspired origami (LIO) sensors can be integrated onto the fingertips of a humanoid-sensing robot.  The LIO sensors integrated onto the robot's fingertips can be positioned on the patient'...
15-03-2022
Smart Watches to Monitor OCD
Researchers at the University of Basel are collecting data to investigate whether smartwatches can be used to help with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in the context of compulsive hand washing during the pandemic. Hand washing has become more than just a routine measure for many and they feel they must comply with it for fear of something terrible happening. The scientists are examining whether sensors on standard commercially available smartwatches can be used to distin...
28-12-2021
Chances of Life in Venus
With an atmosphere thick with carbon dioxide, and a surface hot enough to melt lead, Venus is a scorched and suffocating wasteland where life as we know it could not survive. The planet’s clouds are similarly hostile, blanketing the planet in droplets of sulfuric acid caustic enough to burn a hole through human skin. A new study supports the longstanding idea that if life exists, it might make a home in Venus’ clouds. The study’s authors, from MIT, Cardiff Universi...
23-12-2021
The Organs of our Body changes its Siz...
The smallest fish in the world till date is the Paedocypris which measures only 7 millimeters in length. This is nothing compared to the 9 meters of the whale shark. The small fish have many of the same genes and the same anatomy with the shark, but the dorsal and caudal fins, gills, stomach and heart, are thousands of times smaller! How do organs and tissues of this small fish stop growing very quickly? A multidisciplinary team led by scientists from the University of G...
17-12-2021
Semiconductors that Stretch like Human...
From rigid substrates, semi conductors are moving towards new, flexible substrates which have led to the fabrication of numerous devices. The Georgia tech researchers have created a material that acts like a second skin layer and is up to 200% more stretchable than its original dimension without significantly losing its electric current. The researchers say the soft flexible photo detectors could enhance the utility of medical wearable sensors and implantable devices, among o...
14-12-2021
Multimode Optical Fiber- the Rising St...
Researchers created a 3D imaging system with fibers roughly the width of a human hair. instead of traditionally used bulk fibers, these multimode optical fibers (MF’s) provide new, high-resolution 3D imaging systems. MFs are extremely efficient at transporting light and are designed to carry thousands of light rays, or modes, each of which can act as independent information channels within a very small area. Because of these characteristics, there is a great deal of interes...
Science Innovations
20-11-2021
Superconductivity to a new Version of ...
The world of superconductivity is at the verge of a great milestone. In recent years, there is a boom of realizing special superconductors that are two-dimensio...
Science Innovations
19-11-2021
Atoms can be made Invisible – A Brea...
The new perception of Pauli blocking can be compared to a seating arrangement in a hall. When the seaters occupy random chairs with vacant chairs in between. Th...
Science Innovations
11-11-2021
A Leap in Fusion Energy by Physicist
Researchers at MIT lab found that radio-frequency (RF) waves travel in the turbulent interior of a fusion furnace to maintain an efficiently, operating power pl...
Science Innovations
09-11-2021
Principle of Relativity can transfer d...
Researchers of University of Geneva (UNIGE) in association with researchers from McGill University, has developed a new system based on the concept of “zero-k...
03-11-2021
High Enrolment in MIT computer science
At MIT, there has been an interest in computer science programs, with high enrollment from students of all disciplines, starting from economics to life sciences and they are eager to learn how computational techniques and methodologies can be used and applied within their primary field. One of the core components of the college mission is to educate students who are fluent in both the language of computing and that of other disciplines. The prime goals of the Common Ground ar...