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- A Raspberry Pi-based virtual reality system for small animals
- A new path for electron optics in solid-state systems
- Wireless aquatic robot could clean water and transport cells
- Fleeting flash is most-distant optical afterglow from gamma-ray burst ever detected
- Artificial 'neurotransistor' created
- Robot jaws shows medicated chewing gum could be the future
| A Raspberry Pi-based virtual reality system for small animals Posted: 14 Jul 2020 11:30 AM PDT The Raspberry Pi Virtual Reality system (PiVR) is a versatile tool for presenting virtual reality environments to small, freely moving animals (such as flies and fish larvae). The use of PiVR, together with techniques like optogenetics, will facilitate the mapping and characterization of neural circuits involved in behavior. |
| A new path for electron optics in solid-state systems Posted: 14 Jul 2020 10:27 AM PDT In combined theoretical and experimental work, physicists introduce and demonstrate a novel mechanism for electron optics in two-dimensional solid-state systems. The discovery opens up a route to engineering quantum-optical phenomena in a variety of materials and devices. |
| Wireless aquatic robot could clean water and transport cells Posted: 14 Jul 2020 08:17 AM PDT Researchers have developed a tiny plastic robot, made of responsive polymers, which moves under the influence of light and magnetism. In the future this 'wireless aquatic polyp' should be able to attract and capture contaminant particles from the surrounding liquid or pick up and transport cells for analysis in diagnostic devices. |
| Fleeting flash is most-distant optical afterglow from gamma-ray burst ever detected Posted: 14 Jul 2020 08:17 AM PDT Rapid follow-up of the optical afterglow from one of the most distant confirmed short gamma-ray bursts (SGRB), thought to be the merger of two neutron stars, is casting new light on these enigmatic objects. The observations confirmed the object's distance and placed it squarely in the epoch of cosmic high noon, when the Universe was in its ''teenage years'' and rapidly forming stars. |
| Artificial 'neurotransistor' created Posted: 14 Jul 2020 07:12 AM PDT While the optimization of conventional microelectronics is slowly reaching its physical limits, nature offers us a blueprint how information can be processed and stored efficiently: our own brain. Scientists have now successfully imitated the functioning of neurons using semiconductor materials. |
| Robot jaws shows medicated chewing gum could be the future Posted: 14 Jul 2020 07:12 AM PDT Medicated chewing gum has been recognized as a new advanced drug delivery method but currently there is no gold standard for testing drug release from chewing gum in vitro. New research has shown a chewing robot with built-in humanoid jaws could provide opportunities for pharmaceutical companies to develop medicated chewing gum. |
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