UK based startup Invisibility Shield Co. has created a shield that using lenticular lensing to hide an object behind the shield, while displaying the background.
Researchers from GE, Yale, UCLA, and the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research demonstrated a new treatment for diabetes using ultrasound. Targeting an area of the liver with short ultrasonic bursts can reverse the onset of hyperglycaemia with this non-invasive treatment.
Engineers at MIT and The Rhode Island School of Design have developed a piezoelectric fabric that can capture sounds by detecting vibrations and convert them into electric signals like a microphone. It is envisaged that the acoustic fabric could be used to monitor heart rates and respiratory sounds of the wearer. The fabric can also reverse the process and play sound that can be picked up by other fabric.
Professor Hideyuki Sawada from Kagawa University has created an utterance robot that manipulates the shape of a mouth and nasal cavity to produce sounds that simulate how humans speak. The robot also uses machine learning to hear its own utterance and improve them over time.
Australian scientists have discovered how to map the geological history of the earth in grains of sand, by measuring the distribution of zircon within the sand.
Researchers at Linköping University have created and connected synthetic organic neurons and synapses to those of a Venus fly trap plant and successfully triggered the plant to close its leaves.
Researchers at the University of Texas have developed a new technique to fight antibiotic resistance in bacteria by identifying and inhibiting proteins that help store and spread resistance information.
Did you know that Pablo Escobar brought 4 hippos into his estate in Colombia? After he died in 1993, the hippos were left run wild. Fast forward almost 30 years and there are now 400 of them ravaging the ecosystem of the Colombian landscape near the estate. This great episode of shortwave debates the different conservation options that the Colombians are investigating to manage the hippo population, which could reach 500 by 2030 if left unchecked.
Researchers in Kyoto University in Japan have demonstrated how the magnetic field generated by the conductive waves of a tsunami arrives about a minute before the waves themselves, and can be used as an early warning sign and a means to predict the height of the wave.
Researchers at Northwestern University have built a scattered light holographic camera that can see the unseen. The camera indirectly scatters coherent light onto hidden objects and detects any subsequent light scattering that arrives back into the camera. An image is then reconstructed using this returned scattered light to visualise hidden objects.
