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Rice students develop an award-winning adaptive exercise harness for astronauts to use in space

Rice University
Grant and Award Announcement

A team of Rice engineering students has designed an innovative space exercise harness that won this year's Technology Collaboration Center’s Wearables Workshop and University Challenge. Their design answered a challenge posed by the HumanWorks Lab and Life Science Labs at NASA and Johnson Space Center.

Mayo Clinic takes the next step in making heavy particle therapy available in the Americas for patients with aggressive cancers

Mayo Clinic
Business Announcement

In a bold step to transform cancer care, Mayo Clinic is bringing new hope for patients diagnosed with the most aggressive and treatment-resistant cancers. Mayo Clinic opened the new 228,000-square-foot Duan Family Building at its Jacksonville, Florida location. The building will house the first carbon ion therapy program in the Western Hemisphere, and advanced technology that can seamlessly deliver both carbon ions and protons to treat the same tumor.

First-of-its-kind technology helps man with ALS ‘speak’ in real time

University of California - Davis Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

UC Davis researchers have developed a brain-computer interface that can instantaneously translate brain activity into voice as a person tries to speak — effectively creating a digital vocal tract.

Journal: Nature
Funder: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research Program, NIH/National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, ALS Association, Simons Collaboration for the Global Brain, NIH/National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Department of Veterans' Affairs

How trace elements are recycled in the deep sea

ETH Zurich
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Trace metals such as iron or zinc that are stored in deep-sea sediments are lost forever to phytoplankton on the ocean surface. This is what geochemists believed for a long time about the cycle of micronutrients in seawater. Now, researchers at ETH Zurich have discovered that this is not the case.Trace metals such as iron or zinc that are stored in deep-sea sediments are lost forever to phytoplankton on the ocean surface. This is what geochemists believed for a long time about the cycle of micronutrients in seawater. Now, researchers at ETH Zurich have discovered that this is not the case.

Journal: Nature

USTC develops weakly space-confined all-inorganic perovskite light-emitting diodes

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Prof. XIAO Zhengguo's team from the University of Science and Technology of China of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a novel strategy based on weakly space-confined, large-grain crystals of all-inorganic perovskite to prepare perovskite films with larger crystalline grains and higher temperature resistance.

Journal: Nature

World’s first non-silicon 2D computer developed

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a world first, a team led by researchers at Penn State used two-dimensional materials, which are only an atom thick and retain their properties at that scale, unlike silicon, to develop a computer capable of simple operations. The advancement, published in Nature, represents a major leap toward the realization of thinner, faster and more energy-efficient electronics, the researchers said.

Journal: Nature
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, Army Research Office, Office of Naval Research

Cyborg tadpoles with soft, flexible neural implants

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Bioengineering researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a soft, thin, stretchable bioelectronic device that can be implanted into a tadpole embryo’s neural plate, the early-stage, flat structure that folds to become the 3D brain and spinal cord.

Journal: Nature