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Engineers fabricate a chip-free, wireless electronic 'skin'

Engineers fabricated a chip-free, wireless electronic ‘skin.’ The device senses and wirelessly transmits signals related to pulse, sweat, and ultraviolet exposure, without bulky chips or batteries. Source link

Seeing universe's most massive known star

By harnessing the capabilities of the 8.1-meter Gemini South telescope in Chile, which is part of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, astronomers have obtained the sharpest image ever of the star R136a1, the [...]

Simple method destroys dangerous 'forever chemicals,' making water safe

If you’re despairing at recent reports that Earth’s water sources have been thoroughly infested with hazardous human-made chemicals called PFAS that can last for thousands of years, making even rainwater unsafe to drink, there’s [...]

Newly identified fossil insect used 360-degree vision and sticky feet to find and snare its meals

With bulging eyes, an elongated mouth and feet that oozed resin, a newly identified fossil insect is so different from anything alive today that it needed to be placed in its own, extinct family. Source link

Meteorite provides record of asteroids 'spitting out' pebbles

Scientists found marble-sized chunks of rock in an asteroid sample that wouldn’t disintegrate. They realized that these pebbles are physical evidence of a mysterious geological process first spotted on the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s [...]

Not all in the genes: Are we inheriting more than we think?

A fundamental discovery about a driver of healthy development in embryos could rewrite our understanding of what can be inherited from our parents and how their life experiences may shape us. Source link

Researchers invent self-charging, ultra-thin device that generates electricity from air moisture

Researchers have developed a new moisture-driven electricity generation device made of a thin layer of fabric, sea salt, carbon ink, and a special water-absorbing gel. The device works by keeping one end of the fabric dry, while the other [...]

New 3D model shows: Megalodon could eat prey the size of entire killer whales

Megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived, is famous for its huge, human-hand-sized teeth. However, there is little fossil evidence of its whole body. International researchers have now used an exceptionally preserved specimen to create [...]

Floating 'artificial leaves' ride the wave of clean fuel production

Researchers have developed floating ‘artificial leaves’ that generate clean fuels from sunlight and water, and could eventually operate on a large scale at sea. Source link

A new neuromorphic chip for AI on the edge, at a small fraction of the energy and size of today's compute platforms

An international team of researchers has designed and built a chip that runs computations directly in memory and can run a wide variety of AI applications — all at a fraction of the energy consumed by computing platforms for general-purpose [...]