Semiconductors

Oxford’s Bismuth Sulfide Finding Sidesteps a Key Solar Trade-off

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Oxford's Bismuth Sulfide Finding Sidesteps a Key Solar Trade-off
Photovoltaic panels at the Travers Solar Farm in Alberta, Canada. Photo: Kkiefuik, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Every solar panel is fighting a quiet battle inside its materials. The better a semiconductor is at absorbing sunlight, the faster the electrical charges it creates tend to disappear before they can be collected. A study led by the University of Oxford and published in Nature on October 28, 2026 shows that this trade-off is not a law of nature. In a material called bismuth sul...
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‘Khan Lab’ a hub of multiple innovation in field of sensor development and systems for precision health and psychiatry

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The Khan Lab at the University of Southern California focuses on sensors and systems for precision health and psychiatry. We are part of the USC Institute for Technology and Medical Systems (ITEMS), a joint Keck-Viterbi initiative on medical devices, with presence in both USC Viterbi School of Engineering and Keck School of Medicine of USC. 2022 A flexible electronic strain sensor for the real-time monitoring of tumor progressionAlex Abramson, Carmel Chan, Yasser Khan, Al...
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Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Scientists observed a quasi-periodic fast-propagating (QFP) wave train in corona

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Quasi-periodic fast-mode propagating (QFP) wave trains in the corona have been studied intensively in the past decade, thanks to the full-disk, high spatiotemporal resolution, and widetemperature coverage observations taken by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). In AIA observations, QFP wave trains are seen to consist of multiple coherent and concentric wavefronts emanating successively near the epicenter of the accompanying flares; they propagat...
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Cognitive Health and Older Adults

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Cognitive health — the ability to clearly think, learn, and remember — is an important component of performing everyday activities. Cognitive health is just one aspect of overall brain health. What Is Brain Health?Brain health refers to how well a person’s brain functions across several areas. Aspects of brain health include: Cognitive health — how well you think, learn, and rememberMotor function — how well you make and control movements, including balanceEmotional function — how well yo...
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Augmented Reality Navigation Systems 

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When GPS was invented in 1978 and made available to the public in the following decade, navigation changed profoundly. As it guides automobiles, airplanes, and ships at sea, GPS has had a tremendous impact on how we get around. However, there are still challenges to be overcome. How can augmented reality be used to guide users in indoor and outdoor environments? Augmented reality allows for powerful and intuitive solutions in navigation. By showing virtual guides in physical space through th...
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Apple ARKit 6 – augmented reality apps development kit that leverages Plane Estimation and Motion Capture, and add AR Location Anchors

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ARKit 6 introduces the option to capture a 4K video feed using the back camera during an ARKit session. 4K video is perfect for apps that integrate virtual and real-world content together for video creation, such as social media, professional video editing, and film production apps. Requires iPhone 11 or later or iPad Pro (5th generation). ARKit 6 introduces 4K video, so you can capture stunning high-resolution videos of AR experiences — perfect for professional video editing, film produ...
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University of Cambridge researchers successfully were able to demonstrate changing blood type of donor kidneys

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Researchers at the University of Cambridge have successfully altered the blood type on three deceased donor kidneys in a ground-breaking discovery that could have major implications for kidney patients.The project, funded by charity Kidney Research UK, could increase the supply of kidneys available for transplant, particularly within ethnic minority groups who are less likely to be a match for the majority of donated kidneys. Professor Mike Nicholson and PhD student Serena MacMillan used a n...
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Scientists at Steady High Magnetic Field Facility (SHMFF) in Hefei, China have developed a steady field of 45.22 Tesla, the highest steady magnetic field by a working magnet in the world.

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The hybrid magnet at the Steady High Magnetic Field Facility (SHMFF) in Hefei, China set a world record for the highest steady magnetic field by a working magnet when it produced a steady field of 45.22 tesla (T) on Aug. 12. It broke the previous world record of 45 tesla set in 1999 by a hybrid magnet at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the United States. This 45.22-tesla hybrid magnet is composed of a resistive insert nested in a superconducting outsert with a bore of 32 mm...
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‘Grand-Challenge.org’ – A  open source platform for end-to-end development of machine learning solutions in biomedical imaging.

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Grand Challenge is open source. It was largely written by research software engineers from the Diagnostic Image Analysis Group at Radboud University Medical Center. Radboud University Medical Center is also the responsible entity for the website https://grand-challenge.org. Grand Challenge was developed in 2010 to make it easy for organizers of challenges to set up a website for a particular challenge and to bring all information on challenges in the domain of biomedical image analysis avail...
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Ali Khademhosseini and Team of Researchers at Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI) in California have developed smart contact lenses that can diagnose cancer from tears

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Scientists from the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI) have developed a contact lens that can capture and detect exosomes, nanometer-sized vesicles found in bodily secretions which have the potential for being diagnostic cancer biomarkers. The lens was designed with microchambers bound to antibodies that can capture exosomes found in tears. This antibody- conjugated signaling microchamber contact lens (ABSM-CL) can be stained for detection with nanoparticle-tagged specific anti...
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Boston Scientific Corporation – Spectra WaveWriter™ Spinal Cord Stimulator (SCS) System. It offers non-opioid treatment option with multiple therapies for chronic spinal cord pain

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Spectra WaveWriter System offers non-opioid treatment option with multiple therapies for chronic spinal cord pain. Every chronic pain patient—and how he or she responds to any specific treatment—is unique. The Spectra WaveWriter Spinal Cord Stimulator (SCS) System allows you to provide patients with personalized, drug-free therapy that is clinically proven1 to help reduce chronic pain for a wide range of patients. SCS works by sending low electrical pulses, which vary in frequency, pulse ...
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GAN – Generative Adversarial Networks

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A generative adversarial network, or GAN, is a deep neural network framework which is able to learn from a set of training data and generate new data with the same characteristics as the training data. Generative modeling is an unsupervised learning task in machine learning that involves automatically discovering and learning the regularities or patterns in input data in such a way that the model can be used to generate or output new examples that plausibly could have been drawn from the ori...
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Evoware sustainable packaging without plastic

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Evoware Seawead-based packaging. Evoware makes packaging material from seaweed extract: some types of packaging can be eaten as well! Evoware products can be used as packaging for solid foods and also contain hot liquid, like tea, coffee or instant soup. Evoware offers seaweed-based sachets and food wrappings to replace multilayer plastic packaging for dry food and non-food products, for example, coffee sachets or packaging for cookies and soaps. The materials used in the packaging come ...
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Higher vitamin D levels in pregnancy could help babies become stronger

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Children are likely to have stronger muscles if their mothers had a higher level of vitamin D in their body during pregnancy, according to new research from the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit (MRC LEU) at the University of Southampton. Low vitamin D status has been linked to reduced muscle strength in adults and children, but little is known about how variation in a mother’s status during pregnancy affects her child. Low vitamin D concentrations are common among you...
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‘Pudu – FlashBot’  Building Delivery Robot

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Pudu Robotics is a world-leading tech-focused enterprise dedicated to the design, R&D, production and sales of commercial service robots FlashBot, the latest industry-leading robot with advanced IoT technology solution for building delivery service, featuring intelligent auto-building delivery service that can take the elevator to provide the safe and reliable room delivery, enabling digital management and services of hotels and office buildings for contactless delivery of customer-order...
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Tencent’s Ethereal Audio Lab – open-source technology

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Tencent’s Ethereal Audio Lab (TEALab) believe that the open-source technology and has made many solutions available as open-source. These include - Tencent Meeting provides an easy-to-use, smooth, secure and reliable cloud-based high-definition video conferencing solution that enables customers and users to host or join meetings anytime, anywhere. During the coronavirus outbreak, Tencent Meeting is providing free services and connecting users all over. https://tencent-meeting.updatest...
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World Robot Conference 2022 (WRC 2022) – being held from 18 to 21 August in Beijing, China.

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World Robot Conference 2021 is being held from August 18-22 in Beijing. More than 130 first-class companies will display over 500 exhibits and the latest products. The four trends of the exhibition this year are medical, bionic, humanoid and brain-controlled robots as it seeks to provide an important platform for enhancing international communication. https://youtu.be/0lNaJ2_hkIs More than 20 international organizations, including the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (IEEE RAS...
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Nagoya Institute of Technology scientists in Japan have devised a method to transfor Fish Scales Into Carbon Nano-onions

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Carbon Nano-onions - The development of nanoscale materials is an important area of research as it provides access to materials with unique properties that can be applied to improve quality of life. Multi-layer fullerenes, also known as carbon nano-onions (CNOs) are an exciting class of nanostructures which show great versatility and applicability. They find applications in several fields of technology and biomedicine. Nagoya Institute of Technology scientists in Japan have devised a method...
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Linköping University – Researcher Mehrdad Rafat, Neil Lagali and team have developed Bioengineered cornea that can restore sight to the blind and visually impaired

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Researchers and entrepreneurs have developed an implant made of collagen protein from pig’s skin, which resembles the human cornea. In a pilot study, the implant restored vision to 20 people with diseased corneas, most of whom were blind prior to receiving the implant. The study jointly led by researchers at Linköping University (LiU) and LinkoCare Life Sciences AB has been published in Nature Biotechnology. The promising results bring hope to those suffering from corneal blindness and low v...
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Dostarlimab -monoclonal antibody used as a medication for the treatment of endometrial cancer.

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Dostarlimab, sold under the brand name Jemperli, is a monoclonal antibody used as a medication for the treatment of endometrial cancer. Dostarlimab is a programmed death receptor-1 (PD-1)–blocking monoclonal antibody. https://youtu.be/be4DhZHaTe0 Endometrial cancer (EC) is a disease where cancerous cells reside in the lining of the uterus (endometrium). There are four stages in EC, ranging from staying settled in the endometrium to the cancer spreading to other organs in the body. This ...
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AeroFarms – transforming agriculture by building indoor vertical farms using artificial intelligence and plant biology

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AeroFarms is transforming agriculture by building indoor vertical farms using artificial intelligence and plant biology. It uses the latest breakthroughs in indoor vertical farming, artificial intelligence and plant biology to fix broken food system and improve the way fresh produce is grown and distributed locally and globally. They have built a proprietary agriculture platform to grow a wide array of products, delivering superior flavor, better quality and improved nutrition with the m...
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Professor Amir Zarrinpar at the University of California–San Diego’s research shows Diabetes could be cured by using bacteria from healthy person’s Fecal Microbiota Transplantation

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New research has found that diabetes could be cured using healthy people's poop. Professor Amir Zarrinpar, of the University of California–San Diego's research show promsing resuts. Scientists have long tried to introduce genetically engineered bacteria into the gut to treat diseases. Experiments found microscopic organisms transplanted into mice stopped the progression of diabetes—and the technique could end the need for painful insulin injections for human patients in the future. I...
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‘Scewo’ – The new generation electric wheelchair that can also climb stairs

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Scewo is the only company in the world to manufacture an electric wheelchair that drives on two wheels and can climb stairs. Founded in 2017 based on a former student project of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Scewo enables wheelchair users to discover places in new ways. They believe in an everyday life in which people with restricted mobility can discover the world more independently and in new ways. It achieves this by combining ex...
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‘Pupil-labs’ – deep learning powered eye tracking glasses to help gain instant insight into human behavior.

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Pupil Labs has an eye tracking hardware and software. Their tools make the hidden patterns of human behavior visible and actionable. It empower researchers. With Pupil Invisible they have developed a new approach to mobile eye tracking that is powered by a novel end-to-end gaze estimation pipeline. You can put on the glasses and you will get gaze data immediately. Wear Put on the glasses and launch the Invisible Companion app. Capture Observe real-time gaze behavior, record, and...
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Stanford University – scientist use spinal fluid from young mice to reverse age related memory loss

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The cerebrospinal fluid from young mice is awash with factors that keep the brain sharp. Now, scientists led by Tony Wyss-Coray at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, report that when injected into the brains of old mice, CSF from young mice, or young people, revved expression of a host of oligodendrocyte genes within the hippocampus, counteracting the slump in proliferation and function of the myelin-making cells that typically occurs with age. The researchers tied the effects to...
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University College London has developed software (MotionInput v3) to make computer use more accessible using Voice, facial expressions, gesture, eye movement…

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Researchers at University College London have developed software that lets users control a computer using voice, facial expressions, hand gestures, eye movements, and larger body motions. The software, called MotionInput, was developed to enable touchless computing for a variety of purposes, from making computers easier to use for people with disabilities, to aiding professionals who have their hands full, like surgeons. The software, which is now onto the third version, is available to d...
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‘Kumulus-1’ a startup in Tunisia has developed a portable Atmospheric Water Generator (AWG)

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Kumulus is a water tech start up with mission to provide drinking water in an economical and sustainable way. It has build small portable machine that create drinking water from air! This machine can fit in a 1m3 cube and can be equipped with a solar power pack, making it fully autonomous and independent. The Kumulus-1 is a smart machine, offering options of mobile control through our dashboard and app, as well as functionalities that ensure water is delivered in a sustainable and economical...
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“Skynest” – Air New Zealand’s full-length sleeping pods on plane

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From 2024, Air New Zealand will offer a new Business Premier Luxe suite, a new Business Premier seat and the world's first Skynest. It will offer the most choice of any airline in its three cabins to get the best sleep in the sky. Research shows us the first night away from home is the hardest to get a good night's sleep so everything we do onboard is to help create a sense of calm – from the lighting and sleep ritual including sleepy teas and balms, to the healthier food choices and bre...
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‘The Good Patch’ – Plant based wearable wellness patches for common ailments, like – B12 Awake, Dream, Rescue, Cycle, Soothe.

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The Good Patch offers a variety of wellness products and patches for life’s common ailments. Simply peel and stick. Their state-of-the-art patches allow for a steady and consistent ingredient delivery over the course of 8-12 hours. Plant-based wellness patches. Dermatologist Tested and ApprovedOur patches are gluten free, dermatologically tested, paraben free, latex free, non gmo, cruelty free and vegan. B12 AwakeInfused with Caffeine, Green Tea, and Vitamin B12. Perfect for that early...
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‘LittleOne.Care’ – AI Based Infant monitoring that listens to sounds and movements and suggests what the infant is experiencing

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LittleOne.Care has developed an artificial intelligence system that monitors, tracks, and displays babies' quality of life 24/7 - anywhere, no matter the care institution. Monitoring is based on algorithms and neuron networks, with no radiation and no transmission. The device picks up all the sounds and movements made by the infant, performs an analysis, and suggests conclusions about what the infant is experiencing throughout the day. The data can also be used for early detection of potenti...
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