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A major challenge when it comes to preserving tissues and organs for transplantation is preventing the buildup of ice crystals that can cause critical damage, but an emerging technology may help sidestep the whole issue. Scientists have used a promisin… Continue reading Beating heart tissue supercooled and revived for the first time
In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the world’s most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, one of Russia’s largest financial institutions. Those publications set off speculation about a possible secret back-channel of communications, as well as a series of lawsuits and investigations that culminated last week with the indictment of the same former federal cybercrime prosecutor who brought the data to the attention of the FBI five years ago. Continue reading Indictment, Lawsuits Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story
Engineers at University of California, Berkeley have created an insect-like robot that can scamper along quickly and turn on a dime – perhaps literally. The bot owes its fancy footwork to… well, its fancy feet, which use varying voltages to alternate s… Continue reading Fleet-footed insect robot can turn on a dime (literally)
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, (UC Berkeley) have demonstrated yet another use for the ever-versatile wonder material graphene, using it as the basis for an advanced sensor that can image electrical signals from living cells and … Continue reading “Graphene camera” images the electric field of a beating heart
Advances in electronics, sensor technology and wireless communications are converging to open up some exciting possibilities in monitoring the human body from the inside, from sensors that track the status of orthopedic implants to gas-detecting device… Continue reading Ladybug-sized implant tracks oxygen levels in deep body tissues
Silicon has been the material of choice for electronics for decades, but it’s beginning to bump up against efficiency limits. The next step could be carbon transistors and circuits, and now engineers at UC Berkeley have created metallic graphene nanori… Continue reading Metalized graphene nanoribbons make wires for all-carbon electronics
A new study by bioengineers at the University of California (UC), Berkeley has revealed an interesting new pathway in efforts to fight off the effects of aging. The team’s research has shown how diluting the blood plasma of older mice can have a strong… Continue reading Diluted blood plasma found to reverse aging in mice
This cute, one-legged hopping robot out of UC Berkeley’s Biomimetics lab has been capable of doing sweet parkour-style double-jumps off walls since 2016. By 2018, it was hopping continuously to heights up to a meter (3.3 ft) or so, with pretty decent a… Continue reading Salto the jumping robot can now execute stylish precision landings
Were humans to one day make it to Mars, one of the problems we’d need to have solved long in advance is how to produce necessities like fuel and drugs without having to take them there ourselves. One way we could do this is by collecting carbon dioxide… Continue reading Hybrid reactor uses living bacteria to turn CO2 into useful molecules
Secure-messaging firm Signal was told by Amazon not to use its AWS servers for domain-fronting, a technique used to enable communications in countries such as Egypt, Oman, Qatar and UAE where the service is banned. Continue reading Free Speech Advocates Blast Amazon Over Threats Against Signal