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The burgeoning world of sweat-powered wearables now includes a prototype battery from Singapore consisting of printed silver flake electrodes that generate electricity in the presence of sweat.
A new detector so sensitive it can pick up a single molecule of an explosive such as TNT has been developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Fibre-optic cables being embedded in the embankments of the M25 motorway in the UK will monitor strain, providing an early warning system of possible landslides.
Features editor Industry can have no excuses for a projected tight squeeze for power generation next winter. It should never have come to this, and it never should again.
Cheetahs have inspired the development of LEAP, a new type of soft robot that can move more quickly on solid surfaces than previous generations of soft robots.