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Harnessing the power of motion: Scientists reveal how specially selected microscopic beads can convert everyday movements into electrical energy through friction, potentially revolutionizing wearable technology and offering new pathways for sustainable power generation.

Friction’s Electric Promise: Dr. Ignaas Jimidar on Powering the Future

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Self portrait, Image credit: Ignaas Jimidar, Friction’s Electric Promise: Dr. Ignaas Jimidar on Powering the Future In a significant advancement for sustainable energy, scientists are harnessing electricity from friction using innovative triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs). This technology captures energy from small scale motion when different surfaces interact. A key breakthrough involves using melamine-formaldehyde beads, whose unique […]

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Highly porous tin foam, developed through specialized processing techniques. This material, shown in the image, was studied by an interdisciplinary team at HZB to evaluate its performance as a battery electrode.

Innovative Battery Electrode Made From Tin Foam: X-Ray Imaging Reveals Internal Evolution

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Scientists have discovered that transforming tin into a highly porous foam structure may solve one of the biggest challenges facing next-generation batteries. This innovative approach, detailed in a recent study from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), could pave the way for energy storage that packs significantly…

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Octopus bimaculoides in repose, Cassady Olson, Ragsdale Lab

Eight Arms, Infinite Motion: Unraveling the Octopus’s Extraordinary Dexterity

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Octopuses are renowned for their intelligence and astonishing physical abilities, none more impressive than the dexterity of their eight arms. These flexible appendages can twist, bend, and curl in an almost limitless range of motion, allowing octopuses to navigate their surroundings…

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The new encryption technique uses light frequencies, i.e. colors, to encode quantum states. In tap-proof quantum communication, only the encoded quantum keys are exchanged between two users, Alice and Bob by Dr. Anahita Khodadad Kashi, Quantum Physicist, Germany

The Quantum Cipher: When Light Becomes the Unbreakable Lock of Tomorrow’s Digital Fortress

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Dr. Anahita Khodadad Kashi and Prof. Dr. Michael Kues demonstrated for the first time entanglement-based quantum key distribution using the frequency degree of freedom to enable scalable quantum networks., Image credit: Dr. Anahita Khodadad Kashi The Quantum Cipher: When Light Becomes the Unbreakable Lock of Tomorrow’s Digital Fortress We are standing at the brink of

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By KM3NeT, a next-generation neutrino observatory submerged up to 3,500 meters beneath the Mediterranean

The Deep-Sea Revelation: KM3NeT Detects the Most Energetic Neutrino Ever Observed

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One DU, equipped with 18 DOMs, is rolled up around a spherical structure called the LOM in preparation for installation in the sea. This picture is taken from inside the LOM, capturing the inserted DOMs., Imate credit: Patrick Dumas, CNRS The Deep-Sea Revelation: KM3NeT Detects the Most Energetic Neutrino Ever Observed Beneath the vast, undulating

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Kuhl’s pipistrelle bats by Dr. Aya Goldshtein, Scientist, Germany

Navigating with Precision: How Kuhl’s Pipistrelle Bats Use Acoustic Maps and Vision

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Echolocating bats have long captivated scientists with their remarkable ability to navigate through complete darkness. Recent research has revealed that these bats possess an “acoustic cognitive map,” allowing them to identify their location after being displaced and travel long distances solely using echolocation…

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