Testing a long-range Aera drone to raise the alarm on summer wildfires
Credit: Avy Dutch drone company Avy—an alumnus of ESA’s Business Incubation Center Noordwijk, next to the Agency’s ESTEC technical center…
Engineers develop polymer cores that redirect light from any source to solar cells
Rice University engineers designed and built windowpanes that redirect sunlight or illumination from indoors to edge-band solar cells. The central…
New wearable device turns the body into a battery
A thermoelectric power generator worn as a ring. Credit: Xiao Lab Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed…
Aging dams are ‘ticking time bombs’
The Mullaperiyar dam, which was built in the 20th century, is included in the list of UN University – Institute…
Engineers develop programming technology to transform 2-D materials into 3-D shapes
3D shape created in Yum’s lab Credit: UT Arlington University of Texas at Arlington researchers have developed a technique that…
Hydrogen-powered drives for e-scooters
POWERPASTE. Credit: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Hydrogen is regarded by many as the future of propulsion technology. The first hydrogen-powered cars are already…
Threads that sense how and when you move? New technology makes it possible
Scanning electron microscopy of carbon ink-coated threads. Straight thread on left. Bending the coated threads creates strain (right), which changes…
Electronic transfer tattoo with a crease amplification effect
Schematic illustrations and optical images of the three-layered METT. (A) Exploded schematics of the METT containing three circuit layers. (B)…
Engineers make smart plugs smarter
Associate Professor Sanjib Kumar Panda (left) and Dr Krishnanand Kaippilly Radhakrishnan (right) with a prototype of the Smart Electrical Outlet/Socket…
Watch a robot squid propel itself through water with rhythm
By Matthew Sparkes Robot squid that move to a rhythm can match the power efficiency of the real animals, a…