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Test platforms for charging wireless cars now fit on a bench

Tokyo Metropolitan University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Tokyo, Japan – Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have devised a rotating tabletop device to study wireless charging in electric vehicles. Testing on real tracks takes up vast areas at significant cost. The team not only built a prototype but used simulations to demonstrate safety and similar charging to a linear track. They successfully reproduced movement at 40 kilometers per hour, promising accelerated global research into next-gen charging for EVs.

Journal: IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology

Platform to map living brain noninvasively takes next big step

Rice University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A technology designed to read gene activity in the brain from a simple blood test has now cleared a major translational hurdle.

Journal: Neuron
Funder: David and Lucile Packard Foundation, National Institutes of Health

Why do we get a skip in our step when we’re happy? Thank dopamine

University of Colorado at Boulder
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Humans tend to move faster when they think they're going to get a reward. A new experiment explores the pathways in the brain that may be behind these patterns.

Journal: Science Advances

Reducing disease through gene manipulation

Texas A&M University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

To further the quantitative understanding of cellular decision making, researchers in the chemical engineering department at Texas A&M University have worked to interpret how a transcription factor dictates the alteration of gene expression in cells.

Journal: Science Advances

An upgrade to U-M developed tech enables researchers to see even finer transcription detail inside cells

Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The team behind the Seq-Scope method, which revolutionized the ability to map gene activity within intact tissue at microscopic resolution, enabling researchers to measure all expressed mRNA molecules and determine precisely where they are located within the tissue, has recently taken the technology even further.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Using moon dirt to build future lunar colonies

Ohio State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Simulated lunar dirt can be turned into extremely durable structures, potentially paving the way to more sustainable and cost-effective space missions, a new study suggests.

Journal: Acta Astronautica

From trash to climate tech: rubber gloves find new life as carbon capturers materials

Aarhus University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Millions of rubber gloves end up in incineration or landfill, but researchers at the Danish university, Aarhus University, have now developed a technology that can turn the used gloves into a way to capture CO₂. This offers a potential alternative to oil-dependent solutions, according to Simon Kildahl, who is leading the project.

Journal: Chem

50 years after whale hunting, the behavioral effects linger

University of Auckland
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research from the University of Auckland shows the long shadow from whaling extends to behaviour including breeding.

Journal: Current Biology

Study finds next-generation transistor performance inflated in most lab testing

Duke University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Two-dimensionsal semiconductors have long been studied as a complement or possible successor to silicon transistors, promising smaller, faster and more energy‑efficient processors. Now, findings from electrical engineers at Duke University suggest that the testing approach most commonly used inflates how these transistors perform on paper and cannot be translated into commercial technologies.

Journal: ACS Nano