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