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With approximately four million U.S. households cutting the cable per year, streaming and downloadable video content is here to stay, at least for a while. Netflix, which provides an online streaming service around the world, has 42…

Drones are wonderful things, with so many beneficial, cost-effective applications. But there are always those who want to take advantage of a good thing, and the malicious use of drones has halted flights, created sticky privacy issues, and…

Establishing secure quantum communications has been a priority for a while, with governments, militaries and businesses acknowledging ever-more-sophisticated cyberattacks and looking for more secure ways of transmitting information.…

With almost three million people infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria or fungi, resulting in 35,000 annual deaths in the U.S., we need to do something to ensure people don’t come down with difficult-to-treat pneumonia, bloodstream…

While science fiction doesn’t always end up becoming reality, researchers at Duke University are making some of the technology predicted by Philip K. Dick in the 1950s and Steven Spielberg at the turn of the century a reality. In one of…

Electronic consumption drives much of our global economy but takes a toll at both ends: significant increases in precious metals mining in production and large quantities of electronic waste that are not being recycled or safely disposed…

Copper, mu-metal and aluminum are traditionally used to provide electromagnetic shielding for electronic devices. Recently, Empa researchers have succeeded in applying aerogels based on cellulose nanofibers to microelectronics. These…

The ability to travel through space without also having to travel through time has been the stuff of legend for centuries. While the genie from Aladdin’s first lamp may be an early example, teleportation is most commonly the stuff of comedy…

Soft robots, with major commercial applications as robotic muscles, climbing robots, “edible” drug delivery robots, wearables and prosthetics, have only been around for the last decade or so. Designing robots that can replicate the same…

Data, data, data. We’re over the miracle of sending a single photo or document via email or messenger app and now our desire for data includes streaming movies and music and surfing the Internet for hours. The volume of data our society…

Whether writers will be replaced by AI-generated text or not, programs like Grammarly that suggest language improvements are gaining in popularity. As marketing and communications take place predominantly online, emails and chat bots are…

Mending damaged tissues and creating new ones is the goal of regenerative medicine including designing customized replacement organs that won’t be rejected by the body’s immune system. Now, in research published recently in the journal…

Between a quarter and a half million Americans who can’t speak sign, and the majority of them use American Sign Language. Recently, UCLA bioengineers have designed a glove-like device that can translate American Sign Language into English…

TMD monolayers are part of the building blocks for smaller, cheaper, and more efficient transistors, solar cells, LEDs, photodetectors, fuel cells, photocatalytic and sensing devices. Recently, a team led by the Department of Energy's…

First proposed in 2008, spin-gapless semiconductors offer both ultrafast and ultra-low energy electrical conduction. Now, a University of Wollongong team has published an extensive review of spin-gapless semiconductors (SGSs), a new class…