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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…

The NYC Media Lab announced new immersive educational content for all US-based educators. Developed in partnership with Verizon for the $1M Museum Initiative, more than 50 free augmented reality (AR)- and virtual reality (VR)-focused lesson…

Temperature swings in harsh environments wreak havoc on cameras and their optical performance. Research shows that the lens mounting structure is critical to ensure lens systems remain robust even when temperatures have a wide range.…

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…

Centipedes have no problems negotiating rugged terrain. They do so by wiggling body parts and limbs. When the wiggling stops, so do they. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are using centipede movement to develop a…

InPlay Inc. announced the NanoBeacon SoC IN100 in a wafer-level chip scale package (WLCSP). Measuring a mere 1.1mm x 2.0mm x 0.35mm, the device is the world's smallest Bluetooth System on a Chip (SoC). The NanoBeacon IN100 expands what is…

Researchers at MIT developed a tool that eliminates a source of bias in simulations. Researchers can easily and unknowingly select an algorithm that performs worse on actual data than the simulation predicted that it should. The new…

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…

Now, an AI-based semantic decoder can translate a person's brain activity while listening to a story, or silently imagining telling a story, into a continuous stream of text. Developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, it…

The World Economic Forum just published its Future of Jobs Report 2023. In a proverbial nutshell, the message is that there will be divergent outcomes for global labor markets in 2023. High-income countries are slowing tight labor markets,…