Artificial intelligence learns to predict heart failure

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Computers have learned to predict survival in patients with a heart condition more accurately than is possible today. In the future, this may help doctors to identify patients at greatest... Read More

World’s first floating city one step closer to reality in French Polynesia

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San Francisco’s Seasteading Institute has signed a memorandum of understanding with the French Polynesian government that brings the world’s first floating city closer to reality. The Seasteading Institute first established... Read More

Researchers design one of the strongest, lightest materials known

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A team of researchers at MIT has designed one of the strongest lightweight materials known, by compressing and fusing flakes of graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon. The new material,... Read More

New drone dives like a bird and leaps like a flying fish

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Engineers have developed a prototype drone that dives like a gannet and launches like a flying fish, to collect water samples. Gannets are the largest seabirds in the north Atlantic... Read More

Engineers get under robot’s skin to heighten senses

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Most robots achieve grasping and tactile sensing through motorized means, which can be excessively bulky and rigid. A Cornell group has devised a way for a soft robot to feel... Read More

An innovative window system earns a European patent

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and visual comfort inside buildings and could also make window blinds obsolete one day. The European Patent Office has just granted the system patent protection. Are window blinds about to... Read More