Scientists have designed a nature-inspired carbon tube aerogel thermal insulating material based upon the microstructure of polar bear hair. This lightweight, highly-elastic and more efficient heat insulator opens up new avenues for energy-efficient building insulation
Polar bear hair helps the...
For the first time nanorobots have been designed which can deliver drugs directly into the eyes without causing damage.
Nanorobot technology is a recent technique at the centre of focus of scientists for treating multiple diseases. Nanorobots (also called nanobots)...
Recent study has developed a new tooth mounted tracker which records what we are eating and is the next trend to be added to the list of health/fitness trackers
Different kinds of health and fitness trackers have been becoming very...
The first temperature-sensitive textile has been created which can regulate our body’s heat exchange with the environment
Our body absorbs or loses heat in the form of infrared radiation. At room temperature around 40 percent of heart transfer occurs in...
The brain ‘pacemaker’ for Alzheimer's disease is helping patients to perform daily tasks and take care of themselves more independently than before.
A novel study has for the first time attempted to use deep-brain simulation to counter brain activity related...
Recent studies have developed new wound dressings which accelerate healing and improve tissue regeneration in wounds.
Scientists discovered a very important aspect of wound healing in the late 1970s when the understanding of this process was at a very early...
Study has discovered a way to make batteries that we use every day to be more resilient, powerful and safe.
The year is 2018 and our everyday livesare now fuelled by different gadgets which either run on electricity or on...
Researchers have built a large virtual docking library which would assist in rapidly discovering new drugs and therapeutics
To develop new drugs and medications for illnesses, a potential way is to ‘screen’ a large number of therapeutic molecules and generate...
In a major advancement in3D bioprinting technique, cells and tissues have been created to behavelike in their natural environment so as to construct ‘real’ biological structures
3D printing is a procedure in which a material is added together and thus...
Researchers have developed an artificial sensory nerve system which can process information similar to the human body and it could effectively give sense of touch to prosthetic limbs
Our skin, body’s largest organ, is also the most important as it...
Engineers have designed a wireless ‘brain pacemaker’ which can detect and prevent tremors or seizures in patients suffering from neurological disorders
According to World Health Organization (WHO) neurological disorders affect more than one billion people worldwide and it causes more...
The scientists have developed a suitable material for use in thermo-electric generators based on ‘anomalous Nernst effect (ANE)’ that increases the voltage generating efficiency manifold. These devices can be comfortably worn in flexible shapes and sizes to power small...
A breakthrough study takes significant step forward in the quest to develop a DNA-based storage system for digital data.
Digital data is growing at an exponential rate today because of our dependency on gadgets and it requires robust long-term storage....
Scientists have for the first time created an injectable hydrogel which beforehand incorporates tissue-specific bioactive molecules via novel crosslinkers. The hydrogel described has strong potential for usage in tissue engineering
Tissue engineering is the development of tissue and organ substitutes...
Medical scientists from University of Pennsylvania have found that medical conditions could be predicted from contents of social media posts
Social media is now an integral part of our lives. In 2019, at least 2.7 billion people regularly use online...
Study had shown a scalable and affordable solution of directly capturing carbon dioxide from air and tackling carbon footprint
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a major greenhouse gas and a significant driver of climate change. A greenhouse gas in the atmosphere...
A wearable electronic device has been discovered which can attach to one’s body and act as a speaker and microphone
Discovery and design of wearable electronic devices which can be worn by customers on their body is on the rise...
Series of breakthroughs in quantum computing
An ordinary computer, which is now referred to as a classical or traditional computer works on the basic concept of 0s and 1s (zeroes and ones). When we ask the computer to do a...
Studies show how existing smartphone technology can be used to predict and control infectious and non-infectious diseases
The demand and popularity of smartphones is on the rise worldwide as it is an excellent way to connect. Smartphones are being used...
Wearable devices have become prevalent and are increasingly gaining ground. These devices usually interface biomaterials with electronics. Some wearable electro-magnetic devices act as mechanical energy harvesters to supply energy. Currently, no “direct electro-genetic interface” is available. Hence, wearable devices...
Scientists have successfully integrated latest AI tools (e.g. GPT-4) with automation to develop ‘systems’ capable of autonomously designing, planning and performing complex chemical experiments. ‘Coscientist’ and ‘ChemCrow’ are two such AI-based systems developed recently that display emergent capabilities. Driven...
Betavolt Technology, a Beijing based company has announced miniaturization of nuclear battery using Ni-63 radioisotope and diamond semiconductor (fourth generation semiconductor) module.
Nuclear battery (known variously as atomic battery or radioisotope battery or radioisotope generator or radiation-voltaic battery or Betavoltaic battery)...
The first website in the world was/is http://info.cern.ch/
This was conceived and developed at European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva by Timothy Berners-Lee, (better known as Tim Berners-Lee) for automated information-sharing between scientists and research institutions around the world....
Lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) face safety and stability issues due to overheating of separators, short circuits and reduced efficiency. With an aim to mitigate these shortcomings, researchers used a graft polymerization technique and developed innovative silica nanoparticles...
Scientists have developed a 3D bioprinting platform that assembles functional human neural tissues. The progenitor cells in the printed tissues grow to form neural circuits and make functional connections with other neurons thus mimicking natural brain tissues. This is...
