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A Health Monitoring Wearable That Operates Without a Battery
University of California, Irvine researchers have developed a self-powered, wireless wearable device that can monitor a user's pulse.
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Researchers Develop Innovative 3D-Printing Technology for Glass Microstructures
An international team of researchers has developed a three-dimensional printing process for glass microstructures.
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'Pop-Up' Electronic Sensors Could Detect When Heart Cells Misbehave
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a tool that monitors the electrical activity inside heart cells using tiny "pop-up" sensors that...
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What's in the Water?
Researchers have mapped the global pathways of nitrogen and pathogens from human wastewater.
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Botnet Buster Finds IoT Command and Control Centers
University of California, Riverside computer scientists have developed a tool that cripples botnets by fooling them into exposing their Internet of Things command...
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Lip-Reading Software Helps Users of All Abilities to Send Secure Messages
New lip-reading software can learn from its users continuously.
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Computing Clean Water
Researchers have computationally modeled affinity between solutes and membrane surfaces, to characterize their effects on water purification.
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This Robot Doesn't Need Any Electronics
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have created a four-legged soft robot that doesn't need any electronics to work. The robot only needs a constant...
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Can I Mix Those Chemicals? There's an App for That!
A new open source computer program can advise users to prevent the mixture of incompatible chemicals.
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This Deep Neural Network Fights Deepfakes
A new deep neural network architecture can identify manipulated images at the pixel level with high precision.
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AI Helps Track Down Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts
Researchers used machine learning to discover 72 fast radio bursts from a mysterious source about 3 billion light years from Earth.
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Mobile Device Can Accurately and Inexpensively Monitor Air Quality Using Machine Learning
c-Air is a new, cost-effective mobile device designed to measure air quality.
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