Solitons from new fibre laser could improve eye surgery
Short and powerful pulses are held together by high-order dispersion
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Fluids flow faster in liquid-walled channels
Replacing solid tube walls with magnetically confined ferrofluids reduces friction dramatically, providing a new way to pump blood without damaging it
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Artificial eye has the potential to outperform human vision
New device could help visually impaired people
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Wearable supercapacitor stores energy using human sweat
Device eliminates the need for harmful battery electrolytes
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Bioimpedance analyser tracks blood redistribution in spinning cosmonauts
Bioimpedance analysis can monitor blood circulation changes during rotation on a short-radius centrifuge used to explore artificial gravity
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For concussions, the eyes are windows to the brain
Measuring eye motion in real time could provide a way to diagnose traumatic brain injury due to sports-related head impacts
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Atomic magnetometer measures cardiac conductivity
A 50-fold improvement in imaging sensitivity could enable non-invasive measurement of the heart’s passive electrical properties
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Metasurface-based contact lens corrects colour blindness
New device incorporates nanosized gold ellipses and could help people who struggle to distinguish red from green
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Machines sense and see in nanoseconds
Novel sensor array captures and computes optical signals at the same time, lowering delay caused by intermediate processing
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Physicists unveil new simplified ventilator for COVID-19 patients
Dark matter researchers create device using off-the-shelf components
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