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New tech 3-D prints ouchless COVID-19 vaccine patches
Many people dread getting shots. The long needles used to reach muscle can leave many yelling, “Ouch!” But one day, the jabs used to deliver vaccines could be replaced by stick-on patches. Their tiny,...
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Meet robots on a mission to help birds
Two zebra finches sit on a wooden perch. The small songbirds with orange cheeks and black-and-white striped throats normally live in Australia’s dry grasslands. But this pair at Leiden University in...
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These teens are using science to make the world a better place
For some, a science project might be an assignment. For others, it might be a fun hobby. But doing research can also be a chance to help others and make the world a better place. Just look at some of...
View ArticleEngineers cook up a new way to tackle CO2: Make baking soda
This is another in our series of stories identifying new technologies and actions that can slow climate change, reduce its impacts or help communities cope with a rapidly changing world. Carbon...
View ArticleLet’s learn about mind reading
Mind reading is hard. But not impossible. Modern technology can reach inside someone’s head and pull out their intent. Maybe that intent is to move a robotic arm. Or type something on a computer...
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Explainer: The hydrogen rainbow
Hydrogen gas has no color. Yet promoters of hydrogen power tend to use a rainbow of colors to describe it. Those hues are not just a pretty way to think about the clean-burning source of power. They...
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Hydrogen energy could help our climate — depending on its source
This is another in our series of stories identifying new technologies and actions that can slow climate change, reduce its impacts or help communities cope with a rapidly changing world. Hydrogen is...
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How to prevent the robot replication apocalypse
Self-replicating robots — robots that can make copies of themselves — have a bad reputation. Blame movies. And books and video games. Scientists Say: Robot For a long time, science fiction writers...
View ArticleScientists Say: Deep brain stimulation
Deep brain stimulation (noun, “DEEP BRAYN Stim-yoo-LAY-shun”) Deep brain stimulation, or DBS, is a medical treatment for various brain disorders. DBS has been used to help people with brain conditions...
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Bionic plants and electric algae may usher in a greener future
This is another in our series of stories identifying new technologies and actions that can slow climate change, reduce its impacts or help communities cope with a rapidly changing world. The Kingdom...
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Bits of trees can make and store energy for us to use
People tend to harvest trees for lumber and papermaking. But maybe electronics engineers are missing out on something here. “Turns out,” says Magnus Berggren, two major building blocks of wood have “a...
View ArticleScientists Say: Prime number
Prime number (noun, “PRYM NUM-ber”) A prime number is a number can be cleanly divided only by itself and 1. For instance, 2 and 3 are prime numbers. If you try dividing them by a number other than...
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Particles from tree waste could prevent fogged lenses, windshields
Cold winters can be extra annoying for people who wear eyeglasses. Practically every time they come indoors their lenses get fogged up. The same thing happens when the warm air from a car’s heater...
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How green is your online life?
This is another in our series of stories identifying new technologies and actions that can slow climate change, reduce its impacts or help communities cope with a rapidly changing world. In today’s...
View ArticleLet’s learn about flying drones for science
Drones are pretty versatile tools. These flying robots have delivered packages and fought fires. They conduct surveillance and shoot movies. And in recent years, they have gathered data for a wide...
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Offshore wind farms could do far more than just make clean power
This is another in our series of stories identifying new technologies and actions that can slow climate change, reduce its impacts or help communities cope with a rapidly changing world. Wind turbines...
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Balsa wood transistors could usher in ‘greener’ electronics
This is another in our series of stories identifying new technologies and actions that can slow climate change, reduce its impacts or help communities cope with a rapidly changing world. A team in...
View ArticleLet’s learn about the benefits of playing video games
Thirteen-year-old Willis Gibson recently made gaming history. On December 21, he became the first person to beat the Nintendo game Tetris — more than 30 years after the game’s release. Tetris has no...
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Synthetic biology aims to tackle disease and give cells superpowers
Kerstin Göpfrich builds machines. That’s not unusual for an engineer. But rather than hulking metal devices, she makes teeny-tiny ones. They’re designed to work inside our cells. Göpfrich leads a...
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To ‘green’ AI, scientists are making it less resource-hungry
This is another in our series of stories identifying new technologies and actions that can slow climate change, reduce its impacts or help communities cope with a rapidly changing world. Computing...
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