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- Versatile new material family could build realistic prosthetics, futuristic army platforms
- A light bright and tiny: Scientists build a better nanoscale LED
- One step closer to bomb-sniffing cyborg locusts
- When will scientists learn to use fewer acronyms?
| Versatile new material family could build realistic prosthetics, futuristic army platforms Posted: 14 Aug 2020 01:33 PM PDT Nature's blueprint for the human limb is a carefully layered structure with stiff bone wrapped in layers of different soft tissue, like muscle and skin, all bound to each other perfectly. Achieving this kind of sophistication using synthetic materials to build biologically inspired robotic parts or multicomponent, complex machines has been an engineering challenge. |
| A light bright and tiny: Scientists build a better nanoscale LED Posted: 14 Aug 2020 11:29 AM PDT A new design for light-emitting diodes achieves a dramatic increase in brightness as well as the ability to create laser light -- characteristics that could make it valuable in a range of applications. The device shows an increase in brightness of 100 to 1,000 times over conventional submicron-sized LED designs. |
| One step closer to bomb-sniffing cyborg locusts Posted: 14 Aug 2020 11:29 AM PDT Research has determined that locusts can smell explosives and determine where the smells originated -- an important step in engineering cyborg bomb-sniffing locusts. |
| When will scientists learn to use fewer acronyms? Posted: 14 Aug 2020 07:17 AM PDT Researchers have analyzed 24 million scientific article titles and 18 million abstracts between 1950 and 2019, looking for trends in acronym use. Despite repeated calls for scientists to reduce their use of acronyms and jargon in journal papers, the advice has been largely ignored, their findings show. |
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