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A new method to increase the energy density of lithium (Li-ion) batteries has been developed by Yuan Yang, Assistant Professor of materials science and engineering at Columbia Engineering. He has built a trilayer structure that is stable…

The first entirely 3D-printed organ-on-a-chip with integrated sensing has been made by Harvard University researchers. Built by a fully automated, digital manufacturing procedure, the 3D-printed heart-on-a-chip can be quickly fabricated in…

The October 21st cyberattack that snarled traffic on major websites reveals weaknesses in the Internet of Things that need to be addressed, Stanford cybersecurity expert Herb Lin says. But stricter security requirements could slow…

A next gen gene-editing system developed by Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University scientists has successfully cured a genetic blood disorder in living mice using a simple IV treatment. Unlike the popular CRISPR gene-editing…

According to Rice University scientists, layers of graphene separated by nanotube pillars of boron nitride may be a suitable material to store hydrogen fuel in cars. The Department of Energy has set benchmarks for storage materials that…

A way to tailor a facial capture system to the characteristics of a specific actor's expressions while dramatically reducing the time and effort it would normally require has been developed by Disney Research. Instead of exhaustively…

Physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) and University of Queensland (UQ) have produced near-perfect clones of quantum information using a new method to surpass previous cloning limits. A global race is on to use quantum…