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 E-Mail IMAGE: A standard radio control-based drone, upgraded with necessary hardware and software and equipped with a simple 2D camera for the detection of a symbolized landing pad view more  Credit: Malik Demirhan and Chinthaka Premachandra in "Development of an Automated Camera-Based Drone Landing System, " published in IEEE Access by IEEE Xplore, under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0... Initially earmarked for covert military operations, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) o...

Credit: University of Southampton Scientists at the University of Southampton and University of Edinburgh have developed a flexible underwater robot that can propel itself through water in the same style as natures most efficient swimmer - the Aurelia aurita jellyfish. The findings, published in Science Robotics, demonstrate that the new underwater robot can swim as quickly and efficiently as the squid and jellyfish which inspired its design, potentially unlocking new possibilities for underwa...

In AIP Advances, researchers describe how to exploit DNA origami as a platform to build superconducting nanoarchitectures. The structures they built are addressable with nanometric precision that can be used as a template for 3D architectures that are not possible today via conventional fabrication techniques. Inspired by previous works using the DNA molecule as a template for superconducting nanowires, the group took advantage of a recent bioengineering advance known as DNA origami.

 E-Mail IMAGE: Short circuits in lithium metal batteries usually result from the lithium depositing unevenly on the anode during the charging process, forming protruding sharp needles known as dendrites. These cause the... view more  Credit: Illustration: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology There are high hopes for the next generation of high energy-density lithium metal batteries, but before they can be used in our vehicles, there are crucial problems to solve. An inte...

 E-Mail Lucid Technologies, a new UPF spinoff, is to bring to the audiovisual market computer products that will streamline the film postproduction process, automatically improving films aesthetic appearance. Thus, the company will exploit cutting-edge technologies protected by two international patents developed by the Image Processing for Enhanced Cinematography (IP4EC) research group of the UPF Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC). The companys first product is a ...

 E-Mail IMAGE: IoT chemical sensor that detects minute quantities of gas molecules adsorbed on the surface of the thin nanosheet view more  Credit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Overview: Third-year doctoral student Toshiaki Takahashi, associate professor Kazuhiro Takahashi, and their research team from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology developed a testing chip using semicond...

 E-Mail IMAGE: The new material could be used to develop devices that convert blood pressure into a power source for pacemakers. view more  Credit: Image of pacemaker by Lucien Monfils, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license. A new type of ultra-efficient, nano-thin material could advance self-powered electronics, wearable technologies and even deliver pacemakers powered by heart beats. The flexible a...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Lead author Dr Karina Hudson uses the UNSW lab dilution fridge, used to reach cryogenic temperatures view more  Credit: FLEET Why is studying spin properties of one-dimensional quantum nanowires important? Quantum nanowires-which have length but no width or height-provide a unique environment for the formation and detection of a quasiparticle known as a Majorana zero mode. A new UNSW-led study overcomes previous difficulty detecting the Majorana zero mode, and produces...

Credit: INRS A research team from the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has developed a process for the electrolytic treatment of wastewater that degrades microplastics at the source. The results of this research have been published in the Environmental Pollution journal. Wastewater can carry high concentrations of microplastics into the environment. These small particles of less than 5 mm can come from our clothes, usually as microfibers. Professor Patrick Drogui, who led ...

 E-Mail IMAGE: The device processing for the double-clamped GaN bridge resonator on Si substrate: (1) The as-grown GaN epitaxial film on Si substrate. Except for the AlN buffer layer, no strain removal layer is... view more  Credit: Liwen Sang Liwen Sang, independent scientist at International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science (also JST PRESTO researcher) developed a MEMS resonator that stably operates even under high temperatures by reg...