A new amplifier design that overcomes a fundamental engineering trade off, creating a palm-sized laser that could move imaging from the workbench to the bedside
New treatments are needed for the millions of people with drug-resistant epilepsy. This article explores how neural networks are now able to simulate the complex quantum mechanical processes at the heart of the disease.
The thing I’m most excited about this new method is that it introduces a new prototyping stage. Having the hydrogel as the starting point means structures can be rapidly printed and tested for complex fit, geometry, and tolerance before costly metal infusion and sintering steps are committed.
As the risk of engineered pandemics and biological weapons continues to increase, experts now estimate there is a 1 in 8 chance of a pandemic killing over 90 million people by 2050.
Far-UVC light offers a new line of defence, promising to make the air we breathe as safe as the water we drink.
This would actually be great! I guess the core challenge to achieving this would be in designing a metamaterial that meets the structural demands (strength-to-weight ratio) of a car body while also performing the complex wave manipulation required for invisibility. I wonder how far we are from reconciling those two very different requirements. Perhaps with the use of AI for metamaterials design we could be closer than we think!
Agree, both screens and metamaterials for this application have their pros and cons. Manufacturing metamaterials at a large scale is an area I'm looking into next!