A team of U.S. researchers has demonstrated, for the first time in human trials, a device that reads brain signals to automatically amplify the voice a listener wants to hear -- a potential lifeline for the 430 million people worldwide with disabling hearing loss.

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By using gold nanospheres engineered to capture light across the solar spectrum, researchers at Korea University took a step toward lowering barriers to more efficient and cost-effective renewable energy harvesting.

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Inspired by a technique that allowed astronomers to image a black hole, scientists at the University of Connecticut developed a lens-free image sensor that achieves sub-micron 3D resolution, promising to transform fields from forensics to remote sensing.

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Humans possess the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a sense that some animals have, according to new research.

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Lichens are symbioses between fungi and algae (and/or cyanobacteria) that play important ecological roles and colonize many substrates, including fossils.

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Scientists from University of Sydney and start-up Dewpoint Innovations have created a porous polymer coating that reflects up to 97% of sunlight and radiates heat into the air, keeping surfaces up to 6 degrees cooler than the surrounding air even under direct Sun.

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Instead of a traditional solid glass core, the newly-developed optical fibers feature a core of air surrounded by a meticulously engineered glass microstructure to guide light.

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In their new paper, Los Alamos National Laboratory planetary scientist Nina Lanza and colleagues looked at what would be needed to make the surface environment of Mars more Earth-like and what needs to be done now if there’s a hope of the Red Planet someday being able to sustain human life.

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In a new study by Tarleton State University scientists, okra and/or fenugreek extracts attracted and removed up to 90% of microplastics from ocean water, freshwater and groundwater.

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The new hybrid device combines decoupled sensors with a flexible wireless powering and transmitting module for emotion recognition, according to a research team headed by Penn State scientists.

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Northwestern University researchers have successfully achieved quantum state transfer over a 30.2-km fiber carrying 400-Gbps C-band classical traffic.

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A new class of atomically dispersed nickel catalysts directly converts captured carbon dioxide (CO2) to methane (CH4), according to Dr. Tomaz Neves-Garcia, a postdoctoral researcher at the Ohio State University, and his colleagues.

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MilliMobile is a first of its kind battery-free autonomous robot capable of operating on harvested solar and radio frequency power.

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An innovative battery charging system developed by electrical engineering students at the University of West Florida uses soldiers’ motion as they walk through the jungle to help charge the systems.

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A new study published in the Journal of Cleaner Production is the first to prove that waste coffee grounds can be used to improve concrete.

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EchoSpeech, developed by Cornell University researchers, uses speakers and microphones mounted on a glass-frame and emits inaudible sound waves towards the skin.

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Astronomers recently announced the discovery of TOI-700e, a habitable-zone, Earth-sized planet some 102 light-years away in the southern constellation of Dorado.

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Ancient Roman concretes have survived millennia, but mechanistic insights into their durability is an enigma.

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Solid- or liquid-state cooling strategies often rely on caloric effects in which materials are taken through some sort of phase change.

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The new technology can reduce the electronic industry’s reliance on batteries and broaden the expansion of the Internet of Things and its energy needs.

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