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Stanford researchers have been working for years to advance a technology that could one day help people with paralysis regain use of their limbs, and enable amputees to use their thoughts to control prostheses and interact with computers. The team has been focusing on improving a brain-computer interface, a device implanted beneath the skull on the surface of a patient's brain. … [Read more...] about How thoughts could one day control electronic prostheses, wirelessly

Scientists have found a novel way to prevent pesky magnetic bubbles in plasma from interfering with fusion reactions -- delivering a potential way to improve the performance of fusion energy devices. And it comes from managing radio frequency (RF) waves to stabilize the magnetic bubbles, which can expand and create disruptions that can limit the performance of ITER, the … [Read more...] about Scientists propose a novel method for controlling fusion reactions

Purdue University innovators are working on inventions to use micro-chip technology in implantable devices and other wearable products such as smart watches to improve biomedical devices, including those used to monitor people with glaucoma and heart disease. The Purdue team developed a fully implantable radio-frequency transmitter chip for wireless sensor nodes and biomedical … [Read more...] about Implantable transmitter provides wireless option for biomedical devices

When it comes to the future of solar energy cells, say farewell to silicon and hello to calcium titanium oxide -- the compound mineral better known as perovskite. Cornell University engineers have found that photovoltaic wafers in solar panels with all-perovskite structures outperform photovoltaic cells made from state-of-the-art crystalline silicon, as well as … [Read more...] about For solar boom, scrap silicon for this promising mineral

An efficient in situ pathway to generate and attach oxygen functional groups to graphitic electrodes for supercapacitors by inducing hydrolysis of water molecules within the gel electrolyte. … [Read more...] about Novel approach improves graphene-based supercapacitors