Bidirectional chargers allow electricity to flow from electric vehicles back to the grid during peak demand? Given the current state of electric vehicle (EV) technology, coupled with existing pilot projects, we believe it’s more suitable to ask: what useful vehicle-to-grid applications can we implement today, and what valuable benefits await to be unlocked in the future? Vehicle-to-grid, or V2G, is actually a single, albeit sophisticated technology within a broader suite of EV charging grid ...

A collaborative research team in China found a key gene in a crop that might, via genetic engineering, substantially improve crop yields in alkaline soil. The study, published on Friday in the journal Science, described the breakthrough in agriculture that could increase the production of crops, including rice and maize, by at least 250 million tonnes should the newly-identified gene be applied to 20 percent of global under-utilized saline and alkaline soil. More than 1 billion hectares o...

Dr. H. Rusty Harris, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, has identified a new circuit element Dr. H. Rusty Harris, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, has identified a new circuit element Dr. H. Rusty Harris, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, has identified a new circuit element k...

Researchers at Swansea University in Wales may have discovered a way to create versatile solar cells with speed and at low cost that can be printed. Swansea University has established a low-cost and scalable carbon ink formulation capable of unlocking, for the first time, the potential for perovskite solar cells to be manufactured at scale. Using slot die coating in a roll-to-roll (R2R) process, materials engineers from the SPECIFIC Innovation and Knowledge Centre at Swansea University ha...

Testing vaccine candidates quickly with lab-grown mini-organs Developing and testing new treatments or vaccines for humans almost always requires animal trials, but these experiments can sometimes take years to complete and can raise ethical concerns about the animals’ treatment. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Central Science have developed a new testing platform that encapsulates B cells — some of the most important components of the immune system — into miniature “organoids” t...

The Go1 is Unitree's latest device and comes with a perfected drive & power management system, which enables a speed (depending on the version) of up to 3.7m/s or 11.88km/h with an operating time of up to 2.5 hours. Furthermore, the motors have a torque of 23.70N.m at the body/thighs and 35.55N.m at the knees, which also allow jumps or backflips. Unitree quadruped robot launched a new power intelligent inspection solution, designed a series of solutions for dangerous, urgent and repetiti...

Researchers at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) has created edible rechargeable battery, from materials that are normally consumed as part of our daily diet. A rechargeable battery made from food A team of researchers at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) has created a totally edible and rechargeable battery, starting from materials that are normally consumed as part of our daily diet. The proof-of-concept bat...

Lightyear is a car manufacturers with the mission to make clean mobility accessible to everyone, everywhere. A solar electric vehicle, or SEV, is just like an electric car, but with one critical difference. An SEV has an outer layer of integrated solar cells, and with them, can charge itself from the power of the sun. In other words, it doesn’t rely on plug-charging alone and can drive for weeks - even months - without needing to be charged. Lightyear uses hub motors and not conventional ...

GOOD Meat is real meat, made without tearing down a forest or taking a life. It is the first and only company in the world to sell cultivated meat. It's product is GOOD Meat cultivated chicken, which Singapore has approved for sale, and is currently available at select restaurants. GOOD Meat, World’s First-to-Market Cultivated Meat, Receives U.S. FDA Clearance Cultivated meat is also sometimes referred to as cultured meat, cell-based meat, clean meat, lab-grown meat, cell-cultured meat an...

Zero Cow Factory, a biotechnology company producing India's animal-free protein and dairy products using bioengineering microbes and precision fermentation. Zero Cow Factory use of cutting-edge bioengineering and life science-based technologies. Zero Cow Factory, is working assiduously on developing its own proprietary A2 casein-based solution, a weakness which plant-based ingredients have not yet been able to address successfully. The company has already demonstrated proof of conc...

It may look like Ruidong Zhang is talking to himself, but in fact the doctoral student in the field of information science is silently mouthing the passcode to unlock his nearby smartphone and play the next song in his playlist. It’s not telepathy: It’s the seemingly ordinary, off-the-shelf eyeglasses he’s wearing, called EchoSpeech – a silent-speech recognition interface that uses acoustic-sensing and artificial intelligence to continuously recognize up to 31 unvocalized commands, based...

BioCatch is the leader in Behavioral Biometrics and advanced fraud detection, leveraging technology built upon machine learning to analyze an online user's physical and cognitive digital behavior to protect individuals online. BioCatch Client Innovation Board is a novel, industry-led initiative focused on online behavior, which is a powerful method to protect banking customers and other internet users from online fraud. BioCatch's mission is to unlock the power of behavior and deliver ac...

QuanMol is a revolutionary company that specializes in providing cutting-edge solutions in molecular design using AI-powered technology. Quanmol Technology provides a solution to quantify molecules, and thus enables chemical product design. The company aims to improve the drug development process by providing AI-powered tools to medicinal chemists for data interpretation, reducing the cost and time associated with trial and error. QuanMol Tech with the goal of improving data analysis ...

Phinergy is a leading pioneer in metal-air technology, turning abundant metals into clean energy carriers. This revolutionary technology releases the abundant energy contained in metal, allowing various applications to efficiently leverage its high energy density for storing, transporting, and generating clean and safe energy. This revolutionary technology releases the abundant energy contained in metal, allowing various applications to efficiently leverage its high energy density for stori...

Precision agriculture is a general term to describe farming tools based on observing, measuring, and responding to within-field variability via crop management. It is made possible through the use of Global Positioning System (or GPS satellites) or Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), which enable farm managers to respond to field irregularities. This approach allows farmers to make important resource management decisions both on-site and in real-time. 'Precision Agriculture is als...

If you have hearing loss and experience difficulty understanding conversations, even when wearing high-powered hearing aids in each ear, you may need a different hearing solution. You can consider a bimodal solution — a cochlear implant on one ear with a hearing aid on the other. A bimodal solution may provide greater sound clarity and improved speech understanding, especially in noise.1 With a bimodal solution, you may also be able to determine where sound is coming from better, have an...

GestureTek is an American-based interactive technology company. The company's multi-patented video gesture control technology (VGC) lets users engage multi-media content, access information, manipulate special effects, even immerse themselves in an interactive 3D virtual world – simply by moving their hands or body. It delivers Kinect-like gesture-control without the need to wear, hold or touch anything. They invented and shaped the field of 'applied computer vision' for computer-human in...

The Daedalus Flight Pack is a jet suit capable of flying, hovering and powered jumps. It was created by British inventor Richard Browning, an athlete and Royal Marine Reservist.The Daedalus is different from other manned portable flight packs in that it uses additional jets attached to the hands. These enable it to be directed by moving the arms. The jets and powerpack are affixed to the wearer with metal frames; it uses five micro-gas turbines - two on each arm and one on the back. Thei...

BioSymetrics is a phenomics-driven drug discovery company that integrates clinical and experimental data, using machine learning, to translate human disease biology and advance precision medicine. BioSymetrics is applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities to the discovery and development of new drugs using a proprietary Contingent AI™ platform. Contingent AI™ understands relationships within the data to provide sophisticated insights from clinical data. ...

Logistics startup Zipline's new next-generation delivery drone, dubbed the Platform 2 or P2 Zip can autonomously recharge by parking itself to the hanging charging stations. Zipline's new drone, dubbed the Platform 2 or P2 Zip, is capable of carrying up to eight pounds worth of cargo within a ten-mile radius, and can land a package on a space as small as a table or doorstep. Logistics startup Zipline has flown more than 38 million miles with its autonomous electric delivery drones sin...

University of Manchester scientists have created a new material, dubbed ‘StarCrete’ which is made from extra-terrestrial dust, potato starch, and a pinch of salt and could be used to build homes on Mars. Building infrastructure in space is currently prohibitively expensive and difficult to achieve. Future space construction will need to rely on simple materials that are easily available to astronauts, StarCrete offers one possible solution. The scientists behind the invention used simula...

Britvic-owned Aqua Libra has created a WasteShark robot thats collect and remove plastic waste from the waterways. It was deployed in London's in Middle Dock at Canary Wharf in partnership with the Canary Wharf Group. The WasteShark is a marine robot designed to be harmonious with the environment, which will clear plastic waste from the area's bodies of water while collecting data to improve the surroundings. Aqua Libra, best known for its range of infused sparkling waters, is committe...

Tomorrow Bio is a mission driven organization based in Berlin that provides medical standby, medical biostasis teams, ensures readiness and training, and more. Tomorrow Biostasis offers cryopreservation program in Europe so you can potentially be revived in the future to live an extended life. Cryopreservation or cryoconservation is a process where biological material - cells, tissues, or organs - are frozen to preserve the material for an extended period of time. At low temperatures any ...

Toward the quantum future The Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, led by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is one of five research centers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy as part of a national initiative to develop and deploy the world’s most powerful quantum computers and sensors. SQMS brings together more than 400 experts from 28 partner institutions—national laboratories, academia and industry—in a mission-driven, multidisciplinary collaboration that...

RESEARCHERS DISCOVER AN UNEXPECTED LINK BETWEEN DNA WINDING AND METABOLISM IN THE GUT TO AMELIORATE AGEING Our genetic material is stored in our cells in a specific way to make the meter-long DNA molecule fit into the tiny cell nucleus of each body cell. An international team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, the CECAD Cluster of Excellence in Ageing research at the University of Cologne, the University College London and the University of Michigan have now be...

BioGPT is a type of generative language model, trained on millions of previously published biomedical research articles. Pre-trained language models have attracted increasing attention in the biomedical domain, inspired by their great success in the general natural language domain. Among the two main branches of pre-trained language models in the general language domain, i.e. BERT (and its variants) and GPT (and its variants), the first one has been extensively studied in the biomedical doma...

Researchers in Delft have succeeded in teleporting quantum information across a rudimentary network. This first of its kind is an important step towards a future quantum Internet. This breakthrough was made possible by a greatly improved quantum memory and enhanced quality of the quantum links between the three nodes of the network. The researchers, working at QuTech—a collaboration between Delft University of Technology and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)—are...

VisiRad™ computer vision helps radiologists see lung cancer in medical imaging. Through the power of deep learning and clinical expertise. IMIDEX is an AI company dedicated to saving lives from lung cancer. Our computer vision algorithms provide a second set of eyes for radiologist to help identify lung cancer at an earlier stage when survival is more likely. It is conducting incidental nodule detection studies with health care providers to demonstrate the clinical performance and impact of ...