Technology

Injecting Gold Into the Eye Could Reverse Blindness, Researchers Claim

A surprising new approach to treating blindness is turning heads in the medical world: injecting microscopic particles of gold directly into the eye. Researchers say the technique could one day help restore vision for people…

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Wind in the Stratosphere: China’s Airship Turbine Turns Sky into Power Plant

China has successfully launched what it calls the world’s first megawatt-level airborne wind power system, lifting a massive “windmill” airship to nearly 6,560 feet (2,000 meters) above the ground. During a recent test in Yibin,…

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Laundry-Folding Robot Built in 24 Hours Showcases Rapid 3D Printing Power

A One-Day Robotics Challenge Building a working household robot typically takes months of design, testing, and refinement. Robotics developer Nick Maselli set out to compress that timeline. In just 24 hours, he built a functioning…

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‘Impossible’ Material: Researchers Create Glass-Plastic Hybrid That Defies Physics Theory

A Theory Turned on Its Head For decades, physics textbooks treated glass and plastic as fundamentally different classes of materials. Glass is rigid and brittle, its atoms frozen in a disordered structure. Plastics, on the…

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Waste Heat Could Be Turned Into Electricity With New Thermoelectric Material

Industries and machines waste a vast amount of energy every day. Factories, vehicles, power plants, and electronic devices release excess heat that disappears into the environment without doing useful work. Scientists are now developing a…

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Why This Self-Heating Lunch Box Could Make Office Microwaves Obsolete

A Lunch Box That Heats Itself Cold lunches may soon be a thing of the past. A newly launched self-heating lunch box, now raising funds on Kickstarter, promises to deliver hot meals anywhere by functioning…

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A Second Chance for Sight: How Eye Rebooting Could Change Vision Medicine

How ‘Rebooting’ Your Eye Could Cure Vision Loss For decades, vision loss caused by aging or nerve damage was seen as largely irreversible. Once the eye or the optic nerve failed, doctors could slow further…

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Receipts Get a Green Upgrade as EPFL Replaces Toxic Chemicals With Wood

Turning Receipts Green From grocery receipts to transit tickets, thermal paper is everywhere. Yet behind its convenience lies a chemical problem. Most thermal paper relies on bisphenols such as BPA or BPS to create printed…

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Radical Rear-Opening Helmet Redesigns Rider Safety

French helmet maker Roof has unveiled the DJagger, a rear-opening motorcycle helmet that does away with the traditional chin strap entirely. The new design aims to improve both safety and everyday usability, offering riders a…

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World’s First Large Plant Model Uses 150 Million Plants to Rethink Farming

US startup Carbon Robotics has unveiled what it calls the world’s first Large Plant Model (LPM), an artificial intelligence system trained on data from more than 150 million labeled plants. The company aims to use…

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