Producing clean water at a lower cost could be on the horizon after researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and Penn State solved a complex problem that had baffled scientists […]
In the past year, lockdowns and other COVID-19 safety measures have made online shopping more popular than ever, but the skyrocketing demand is leaving many retailers struggling to fulfill orders while ensuring […]
Partner organisation IMPACT26 organizes a seminar and diner with Jonathan Berte, the CEO of Robovision. The subject of this session in February 2020 will be Artificial Intelligence. Jonathan Berte will tell us more about Deep […]
Bug Research Paves the Way for Search-and-Rescue and Exploration Tasks When they turn up in family pantries or restaurant kitchens, cockroaches are commonly despised as ugly, unhealthy pests and are quickly killed. […]
Clothing made from a reversible fabric could warm or cool wearers and keep them comfortable, bringing down buildings’ energy costs. Stanford researchers have developed a reversible fabric that, without expending effort or […]
New paper in Nature analyses the wide-scale negative impacts of damming rivers in the Amazon basin The Amazon basin will suffer significant and irreversible environmental damage if hundreds of planned dams are […]
From Apple’s Siri to Honda’s robot Asimo, machines seem to be getting better and better at communicating with humans. But some neuroscientists caution that today’s computers will never truly understand what we’re saying […]
How disposable Lithium batteries degrade during normal use has been tracked in real-time by a UCL-led team using sophisticated 3D imaging, giving a new way to non-invasively monitor performance loss and guide […]
Researchers from Holst Centre (set up by TNO and imec), imec and CMST, imec’s associated lab at Ghent University, have demonstrated the world’s first stretchable and conformable thin-film transistor (TFT) driven LED […]
Simulations and experiments aim to improve on spiders in creating strong, resilient fibers. David L. Chandler | MIT News Office After years of research decoding the complex structure and production of spider […]
Reinventing how these batteries are made also improves their performance and recyclability. by David L. Chandler | MIT News Office An advanced manufacturing approach for lithium-ion batteries, developed by researchers at MIT and […]
A material inspired by the unique physics of geckos’ fingertips could allow robotic hands to grip nearly any type of object without applying excessive pressure. By Bjorn Carey | Stanford University News A promising new adhesive material was born out of a scrap. David Christensen, a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford, was trimming a […]
by Ken Kingery | Duke University From ancient Egyptians roasting a dripping cut of beef next to the Great Pyramid of Giza to a Boy Scout learning to build a log cabin fire […]
by Institution of Mechanical Engineers A group of members from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ Spanish Group, in collaboration with Airbus, Altran, the Hospital Clínico San Carlos in Madrid, Speedpig and OpticaRoma, […]
One of the more recent members of The Future Leadership Institute is Mr. Teun Depreeuw. Teun Depreeuw is founder and owner of Muurtuin.be, a company specialized in designing, manufacturing, installing and maintaining vertical gardens. Click the picture to read more.
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