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More than 100,000 people are waiting for organ transplants at this moment. While every donation has the possibility of saving multiple lives, there aren’t enough viable organs to whittle down the waiting list. Enter Penn State. Researchers…

No, I’m not talking about the Beach Boys (yes, I’m an old); I’m talking about harvesting energy from vibrations in our surroundings. Researchers have developed an energy-generating device of piezoelectric composites and carbon…

Printed flexible electronics are used for skin patches, thin-film flexible photovoltaics, and automotive interior consoles, among many other uses. This approach to electronics combines additive manufacturing with flexible substrates,…

Millions of people watch the Geminids meteor shower every year. This intense event usually peaks around December 13th or 14th and appears to originate from the Gemini constellation, giving them their name. The Geminids are one of two meteor…

Merging is a nightmare. I’ve driven in California, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, New York, South Carolina, and several other states. It sucks everywhere and all comes down to a fundamental question: should I wait, or should I…

The holodeck has existed in the Star Trek universe since the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987. It used holograms to simulate any environment, including people and may be closer to becoming a reality. But, what does…

Saturn has more moons than any other planet in our solar system. With the recent discovery of 62 new spatial bodies in the system, the ringed planet now has a total of 145 moons, beating Jupiter’s 92, which also increased in February with …

Photovoltaic cells work by absorbing light, knocking electrons loose, and allowing them to flow, which creates an electrical current. They capture that current and transfer it to wires. Storing this energy in batteries can be expensive and…

I'm a gamer and worked in the games industry for many years. My favorite genres are stealth games and RPGs: Fallout, Skyrim, Bioshock, Far Cry, and the like. Despite this preference, I've likely put more hours into Minecraft than every…

What do you think would happen if we received a message from aliens? Hollywood loves to explore this premise. If you’re my age, you will likely have seen Contact, the 1997 movie based on Carl Sagan’s book of the same name. Luckily, the…

More than 8 billion people are alive on Earth today. The more our population increases, the more strain we put on our resources. Scientists are looking at insect protein as an integral part of feeding our future world. In fact, the insect…

Arcadia, a UK charitable foundation that works to preserve nature and cultural heritage and promotes open access to knowledge, donated $10 million to MIT Press to establish the Arcadia Open Acess Fund. The fund will support the MIT…

A research team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley has engineered bacteria to produce new-to-nature carbon products that could provide a powerful route to sustainable biochemicals, offering…

Lehigh Engineering researcher Arup SenGupta developed a way to turn carbon dioxide into a baking ingredient. The development means that we can store the carbon harmlessly in the ocean. The approach, recently published in Science…

Streaming and studying organic tissue are miles apart, but a new method of study brings them closer together than you might think possible. A groundbreaking technique developed by researchers affiliated with the USC Michelson Center for…