3D-printed exoskeleton could offer disabled children a helping hand
Sometimes it takes a child’s question to highlight the obvious. Why is there not a special shirt that children can wear that will help them?
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Joseph Shavit
May 18, 2021
COVID-19 testing method gives results within one second
Superfast, portable COVID-19 testing method detects the virus much faster than currently available methods
Joseph Shavit
May 18, 2021
World first concept for rechargeable cement-based batteries
Imagine an entire twenty storey concrete building which can store energy like a giant battery. That vision could someday be a reality.
Joseph Shavit
May 18, 2021
$10 billion Space telescope that will help us travel back in time
NASA’s new telescope has a considerable mission on its hands: to peer deeper into space and further back in time than ever before
Joseph Shavit
May 17, 2021
A Gen Z fund? How this 22-year-old raised $1.6 million to invest in underrepresented entrepreneurs
A newly graduated San Diego State University alum has raised $1.6 million—largely through her Twitter following—to invest in startups
Joseph Shavit
May 17, 2021
New technology converts waste plastics to jet fuel in an hour
Washington State University researchers have developed an innovative way to convert plastics to ingredients for jet fuel
Joseph Shavit
May 14, 2021
Sensors developed at URI can identify threats at the molecular level
New sensors are so powerful that they can detect threats at the molecular level. More sensitive than a dog's nose.
Joseph Shavit
May 13, 2021
This Alexandria company created a platform to host virtual charity poker events
The virtual gaming software simulates regular gameplay, without the actual gambling. Players are broken into groups of eight people
Joseph Shavit
May 11, 2021
Boosting body heat production: A new approach for treating obesity
A receptor that helps conserve energy when food is scarce may be the key to a safer approach to treating diet-induced obesity
Joseph Shavit
May 11, 2021
New material to treat wounds can protect against resistant bacteria
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a new material that prevents infections in wounds.
Joseph Shavit
May 9, 2021
The solar power generating bike path of the future
Many people are taking to biking for their preferred mode of transportation, prompting designers and city officials to reimagine bike paths.
Joseph Shavit
May 7, 2021
StartItUp is taking Silicon Valley's playbook and adapting it for small businesses
StartItUp, the first mobile-based platform to bring Silicon Valley incubation and entrepreneurial support to 6.5 million small-businesses
Joseph Shavit
May 6, 2021
Research breakthrough in the fight against cancer
New research combines two different approaches to more precisely and effectively deliver treatment to the specific cells affected by cancer
Joseph Shavit
Apr 30, 2021
Student' Innovative Idea Turns Plastic Waste into Durable, Low-Cost Tile
PET bottles are barely (less than 30%) recycled in America, a country that has the infrastructure to recycle it.
Joseph Shavit
Apr 30, 2021
Move over CRISPR, the retrons are coming
Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have created a new gene editing tool called RLR
Joseph Shavit
Apr 27, 2021
New waterproofing solution discovered effective on a variety of materials
Simon Fraser University chemistry professor and project lead Hogan Yu estimates that their patented waterproofing solution will be ...
Joseph Shavit
Apr 23, 2021
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen from Red Planet
The growing list of “firsts” for Perseverance, NASA’s newest six-wheeled robot on the Martian surface, includes converting some of Mars'
Joseph Shavit
Apr 20, 2021
Designing new probiotics and specially tailored diets to prevent diseases
A new mathematical model for the interaction of bacteria in the gut could help design new probiotics and specially tailored diets
Joseph Shavit
Apr 19, 2021
Once-a-week insulin treatment could be game-changing for patients with diabetes
Treating people with Type 2 diabetes with a new once-a-week injectable insulin therapy proved to be safe and as effective as daily insulin
Joseph Shavit
Apr 16, 2021
A new way for businesses to quickly compost food waste
When food waste goes to landfill it releases methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide.
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