The original headline for the University of Oxford press release was “Batteries for miniature bio-integrated devices and robotics” but it’s not clear to me what they mean by robotics (soft robots? robotic prostheses? something else?). An October 25, 2024 news item on ScienceDaily announces the research, University of Oxford researchers have made a significant step...

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This October 28, 2024 article by Kiran Jacob for The Edge Malaysia is designed to boost businesses but, happily, it also provides some insight into how graphene is being commercialized in Malaysia, This article first appeared in Digital Edge, The Edge Malaysia Weekly on October 28, 2024 – November 3, 2024 Ominent Sdn Bhd, through...

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Alex Walls’ January 7, 2025 University of British Columbia (UBC) media release “Should we recognize robot rights?” (also received via email) has a title that while attention-getting is mildly misleading. (Artificial intelligence and robots are not synonymous. See Mark Walters’ March 20, 2024 posting “Robots vs. AI: Understanding Their Differences” on Twefy.com.) Walls has produced...

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An October 23, 2024 news item on ScienceDaily announces a radical (by my standards) new technology for agriculture, Photosynthesis, the chemical reaction that enables almost all life on Earth, is extremely inefficient at capturing energy — only around 1% of light energy that a plant absorbs is converted into chemical energy within the plant. Bioengineers...

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Ingenium is the ‘portfolio’ name and governing organization for the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and its January 2025 newsletter (received via email and visible here) lists a number of museum(s) events for the new year, i.e., January/February...

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I received (via email and it’s also here) a January 2, 2025 Northwestern University news release by Megan Fellman announcing Sir Fraser Stoddart’s (also known as, J. Fraser Stoddart) death on December 30, 2024, Note: Links have been removed, Sir Fraser Stoddart, a pioneer in nanoscience, dies at 82 Stoddart received the 2016 Nobel Prize...

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This is a little late (I’m sorry) but, on the plus side, it’s not a complicated application process. The residency is offered by the Port Renfrew Writers Retreat, from their About webpage, Founded in 2019 on the west coast of Vancouver Island, Port Renfrew Writers Retreat is a space for writing that relates to the...

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Let’s call this a cold open, This October 24, 2024 news item on ScienceDaily describes some of what is in the video The ideal material for interfacing electronics with living tissue is soft, stretchable, and just as water-loving as the tissue itself–in short, a hydrogel. Semiconductors, the key materials for bioelectronics such as pacemakers, biosensors,...

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This research comes from the UK according to an October 26, 2024 news item on phys.org, Note: A link has been removed, Researchers from Queen Mary University of London and Paragraf Limited have demonstrated a significant step forward in the development of graphene-based memristors and unlocking their potential for use in future computing systems and...

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Yes, as this October 23, 2024 Science China Press press release on EurekAlert notes, supercapacitors and memristors are not usually lumped together, In a groundbreaking development, Professor Xingbin Yan and his team have successfully merged two seemingly disparate research areas: supercapacitors, traditionally used in energy storage, and memristors, integral to neuromorphic computing. Their study introduces...

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