Lynda Delacey
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Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Cyborg step? Scientists engineer bioelectric cells
Researchers from the University of Maryland have created an electrogenetic “switching” system in bacterial cells that influences the way the single-celled organisms behave, linking organic and electronic systems together. → Read More
Hi-tech mooring records ocean acidity beneath Antarctic ice
Researchers from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science have deployed an innovative, sensor-studded mooring – as tall as the Empire State Building – beneath waters in Antarctica usually inaccessible through the winter. → Read More
Slo-mo energy harvesting could see finger presses powering touchscreen devices
Researchers from Penn State have developed a new technology that can harness the movements of a user's fingers against a touch screen to generate electricity. In time, the team hopes the technology could provide as much as 40 percent of the energy required by a next-gen smartphones and tablets. → Read More
New method uses sound to see vividly inside living cells
Researchers have developed a groundbreaking technique that uses sound rather than light to see inside live cells. The new technique provides insight into the structure and behavior of cells that could rival the optical super-resolution techniques that won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. → Read More
Mouse study suggests microgreens could offer macro benefits
When a “health food” trend hits the tables, it's hard not to feel a little cynical. But a new animal study by US Department of Agriculture researchers suggests that red cabbage microgreens, now popular in restaurants and on cooking shows, offers a way to reduce weight gain and high blood pressure. → Read More
Iconic diamonds shed light on our planet’s inner world
Researchers have discovered that the world’s largest, most famous diamonds were formed in a different part of the Earth’s mantle and through a different process to the smaller, more common diamonds that make up the vast majority. → Read More
Finally – a safe way to carry hydrogen fuel in your pocket
Hydrogen has great potential as a future clean energy source, but it's difficult to store safely. Now a Japanese research team has invented a compact, flexible polymer that could enable a plastic container of hydrogen that's safe to carry in your pocket. → Read More
“Starving” bacteria to double energy extraction from sewage
Global efforts to extract energy from sewage in forms such as heat, biogas and even electricity may get a boost thanks to the work of a team of biochemists and microbiologists from Ghent University, Belgium, who are collaborating on a pilot project with DC Water in Washington DC. → Read More
Swarms of sesnor-packed drones may soon be a windfarmer's best friend
Wind farmers may soon be using swarms of drones to solve the headache of downstream wind turbulence and identify the most efficient places to plant wind turbines, thanks to a team of researchers from Switzerland. → Read More
Light sculpting technique records neurons firing inside a mouse's brain
Rockefeller University researchers have taken a step closer to achieving the current "holy grail" of brain science – the ability to look into a living brain and see all the neurons firing in real time, with the subject free to move around and perform tasks. → Read More
CubeSats could soon be zooming around space under their own power
Rubik’s-cube-sized CubeSats are nifty, cheap way to study space, but they’re limited to low orbits – until now. Los Alamos researchers have created a safe and innovative rocket motor that could allow CubeSats to zoom around space and even de-orbit themselves when they’re finished their mission. → Read More
Metamaterials deliver simple, energy efficient "3D acoustic holograms" from any speaker
Engineers from Duke University have developed a way to create acoustic “holograms” that promise to be as magical as visual holograms – all by placing an array of 3D-printed acoustic building blocks in front of a sound wave. → Read More
Abundant silicon at the heart of cheaper renewable energy storage system
A team of researchers from Madrid is developing a thermal energy storage system that uses molten silicon to store up to 10 times more energy than existing thermal storage options and could form the basis for a new generation of low-cost solar thermal stations to store solar energy in urban centers. → Read More
World's biggest defence company builds plant to make energy from landfill
Last month, executives at Lockheed Martin’s Owego, New York plant cut the ribbon on a new self-sustaining bioenergy system that is helping power the facility, converting 3,560 tons of waste per year into clean electricity. → Read More
Jedi scientists freeze light in midair to bring quantum computers a step closer to reality
Remember when Kylo Ren used the Force to stop a laser blast in mid-air? In a Canberra laboratory, physicists have managed a feat almost as magical: they froze the movement of light in a cloud of ultracold atoms. This discovery could help bring optical quantum computer from sci-fi to reality. → Read More
Snappy star goes through two stages of evolution in just 45 years
2,700 light years from Earth, in the heart of the Stingray Nebula, a small star has allowed astronomers to observe something incredible: a dramatic contracting and heating phase followed by a rapid rebirth into a cooling, expanding star – just as astronomers predicted. → Read More
World’s first ciliary microrobots could change the way we take medicine
Science fiction is fast becoming reality, with scientists in South Korea developing an astonishingly fast-moving remote-controlled microrobot designed to travel through the human bloodstream to deliver treatment directly to the organs that need it. → Read More
Compulsive drinking in rats stopped cold by flipping neurons like switches
Researchers have discovered that deactivating neurons in the brains of alcohol-dependent rats completely stopped compulsive drinking behavior. While the usual caveats around animal research apply, the study offers hope that drug therapy might one day help people gain control over alcoholism. → Read More
Monkeys in captivity start to resemble humans – in their guts
A new study shows that monkeys in captivity lose so much of the diversity of their natural gut microbes, that the bacteria in their digestive tracts starts resembling those of modern Western humans. → Read More
Deciphering dolphin echolocation
A private dolphin research organization has released an image of an underwater diver that was created using data extracted from the high frequency clicks that dolphins emit when they perform echolocation. The image might reveal how certain animals “see” in underwater environments. → Read More