First-ever mobile app developed to cure tinnitus
After two decades of searching for a cure for tinnitus researchers announced promising results from a trial of a new app-based therapy.
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Joseph Shavit
- 2 days ago
Innovative new technology will heat and cool your house at half the price
Imagine if you could heat or cool your home just by plucking the desired comfort level out of the air. Literally.
Joseph Shavit
- 2 days ago
Artificial pancreas revolutionizes blood sugar control for kids with type 1 diabetes
The artificial pancreas has an insulin pump that uses advanced control algorithms based on the person’s glucose-monitoring information.
Joseph Shavit
- 5 days ago
Start-up captures waste heat from cloud data centers to heat public pools
Deep Green, a leading sustainable energy solutions company, has recently unveiled a new technology that has been dubbed the "digital boiler.
Joseph Shavit
- 6 days ago
New technology captures more carbon dioxide than a forest the size of Germany
0.5% of global carbon emissions could be captured during the crushing process of rocks used in construction, by crushing them in CO2 gas.
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 13
New farming robots snip weeds while preserving crops, eliminating the need for herbicides
Herbicide resistance is a growing problem in crops around the world, while widespread labor shortages have hit the agricultural sector hard.
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 13
Life-changing wrist device significantly reduces tics in Tourette syndrome
Wrist device designed to help control the symptoms of Tourette syndrome shows it significantly reduces the severity and frequency of tics.
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 10
Groundbreaking "water battery" will revolutionize clean energy
Lightweight, high-capacity lithium-ion batteries are widely used in mobile phones, laptops, and other necessities in today’s world.
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 7
Can ChatGPT revolutionize the world? Here is what it "thinks"
OpenAI’s ChatGPT may not be self-aware but it does know its place in the world and has an opinion on its potential to revolutionize humanity
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 6
Start-up's new 3D-printed limbs: A game-changer in the field of prosthetics
Cure Bionic's focus today - creating affordable, customized, and high-quality prosthetic limbs that can deliver a more fulfilling life.
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 5
Groundbreaking graphene circuit can generate limitless power
Physicist has successfully developed a circuit capable of capturing graphene's thermal motion and converting it into an electrical current.
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 4
Breakthrough new engine is more efficient than a steam turbine and has no moving parts
The team’s design can generate electricity from a heat source of between 1,900 to 2,400 degrees Celsius, or up to 4,300 degrees Fahrenheit.
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 4
Groundbreaking solar technology captures 10 liters of clean drinking water out of the air per day
By harvesting water vapor from the air and condensing it into liquid, atmospheric water generators can essentially pull water from the air.
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 3
Groundbreaking anti-dust tech paves way for self-cleaning surfaces
Dust is a common fact of life, and it's more than just a daily nuisance – it can get into machinery and equipment, causing breakdowns.
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 2
Gamechanging UV light kills bacteria and viruses without harming humans
A highly efficient LED that is deadly to microbes and viruses but safe for people has been engineered by three RIKEN physicists.
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 1
Scientists make incredible discovery in the ability to move things with our minds
Researchers from the National University of Singapore have advanced towards real-time, remote and wireless mind control of metamaterials.
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 1
Insulin injections are now obsolete with this gamechanging robotic pill
One reason that it’s so difficult to deliver large protein drugs orally is that these drugs can’t pass through the mucus barrier.
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 1
Future computers will run on human brain cells, study finds
A “biocomputer” powered by human brain cells could be developed within our lifetime, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers.
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 1
Groundbreaking new device can detect and analyze cancer cells from blood samples
The Static Droplet Microfluidic device is able to rapidly detect circulating tumour cells that have broken away from a primary tumour.
Joseph Shavit
- Feb 28
MIT researchers built an augmented reality headset that gives the wearer X-ray vision
The AR headset combines computer vision and wireless perception to automatically locate a specific item that is hidden from view.
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