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How Much Do You Know About the History of Television?

Television was king during the second half of the 20th century — what do you know about the history of the technology?

Precision Drug Delivery with Magnetic Steering, Light-Triggered Release

Researchers have demonstrated that microscopic drug-delivery containers can be magnetically steered to their targets, advancing the development of precision medicine...

Microrobots Navigate Complex Biological Environments

Fabricated with a gel side for carrying drugs and a magnetic side for steering, researchers have developed microrobots that can navigate complex biological environments like intestines....

Zinc Detected in Clogged Syringes

Researchers have found that, in rare cases, zinc from the needle shield can leach into the drug solution to be injected and possibly contribute to syringe clogging. They were asked by the pharmaceutical...

Painless Diabetes Care: Smarter Drug Delivery

A wearable technology enables real-time, noninvasive tracking and optimized treatment for diabetic patients. It enables precise drug dosing through continuous, real-time monitoring of disease...

Drug-Delivery System Tackles Lupus

A new system sends medication directly to the spleen where certain immune cells cause the disease known as lupus, or Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.

Lifelike Simulation Accelerates Middle-Mile Autonomous Trucking

Gatik Arena is a next-generation simulation platform designed to accelerate the development and validation of autonomous vehicle (AV) systems. Gatik, which targets autonomous...

AI Model Can Predict Cardiac Arrest Better than Doctors

A new AI model is much better than doctors at identifying patients likely to experience cardiac arrest. The linchpin is the system's ability to analyze long-underused heart imaging, alongside a full spectrum of medical records, to reveal previously hidden information about a patient's heart health.

Four New Military Ground Vehicles Unveiled at DSEI 2025

Several defense companies unveiled new military ground vehicles for a wide variety of international programs and applications during at the Defense & Security Equipment...

Air Force Supports Development of Large Format Metal 3D Printer Demonstrator

3D Systems will continue its development of large format metal 3D printing technology under a new $7.65 million contract awarded by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to...

AFWERX Tests Alternative Navigation System on Osprey MK III

A bright orange dart drifted in the air at approximately 1,000 feet. The cloudless, bright blue skies practically swallowed up the 7-foot, 50-pound unmanned aerial system as it...

A New Depth Perception System for Explosive Ordinance Disposal Robots

What started as a school project has developed into a promising innovation for explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) operations across the Department of Defense (DoD).

EV Battery Safety: Advanced Coatings, Composite Solutions for Fire and Blast Protection

Thermal runaway in electric vehicle batteries is rare, but it can happen, producing smoke, fire, and explosions. This uncontrollable, self-heating state can transfer intense heat to adjacent cells and cause pressure buildups that exceed the mechanical limits of cell casings. Read on to learn how to avoid it.

AI-Powered Action for Rapid Disaster Response

A system uses drone imagery and artificial intelligence to rapidly assess damage after hurricanes and floods, offering life-saving insights in minutes.

The Flexible Materials Fixing Medicine and the Environment

What if the future of medicine, farming, and clean water relied on a material that's mostly water? Meet hydrogels—soft, flexible, and powerful materials that mimic living tissue and...

Handling the Rarest Materials on Earth

They’re called "hot cells"—not for their looks, but for the intense radioactivity inside. At Oak Ridge National Lab, these shielded labs let scientists safely handle some of the rarest, most...

Catching Up on (and Advancing) MXenes

Haozhe “Harry” Wang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) at Duke University and an expert in developing new methods for manufacturing materials, continues to push the boundaries in MXene research.

SonoTextiles: What if Your T‑shirt Could Listen?

ETH Zurich researchers, led by Prof. Daniel Ahmed, have crafted "SonoTextiles"—smart fabrics that ditch traditional electronics in favor of acoustic waves zipping through glass microfibers....

Inside Slate's Warsaw Factory

Slate bought a factory. The 1.4 million sq. ft. (130,000 m3) facility was formerly a printing company. Sears, JCPenny, and Radio Shack catalogs emerged from the RR Donnelley & Sons printing plant for...

Humanoid Robots in the Operating Room

As waiting rooms fill up, doctors get increasingly burnt out, and surgeries take longer to schedule and more get cancelled, humanoid surgical robots offer a solution. That’s the argument that UC San...

Multi-Robot Lab Racing to Discover the Next Quantum Dots

Researchers at North Carolina State University have unveiled Rainbow, a first-of-its-kind multi-robot self-driving laboratory that autonomously discovers high-performance quantum dots...

A Tangled Robot

The slimy, segmented, bottom-dwelling California blackworm is about as unappealing as it gets — but get a few dozen or a thousand together, and they form a massive, entangled blob that seems to take on a life of its own.

New Vision-Based System Teaches Machines to Understand Their Bodies

In an office at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), a soft robotic hand carefully curls its fingers to grasp a small object. The...

Trelleborg Expands European Medical Device and LifeScience Manufacturing

Trelleborg Medical Solutions has opened 43,055 sq ft (4,000 sq m) of manufacturing space in Hal-Far, Malta, helping medical device and life science customers bring...