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Special Report spotlights the eight amazing winners in 2024 as well as honorable mentions in each category, plus the top ten most popular entries as voted by our community.
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Spinal cord injury affects 17,000 Americans and 700,000 people worldwide each year. A research team at NeuroPair, Inc. won the Grand Prize in the 2023 Create the Future Design Contest for a revolutionary approach to spinal cord repair. In this Here’s an Idea podcast episode, Dr. Johannes Dapprich, NeuroPair’s CEO and founder, discusses their groundbreaking approach that addresses a critical need in the medical field, offering a fast and minimally invasive solution to a long-standing problem.
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Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are technologies that turn the chemical energy found in organic materials into electrical energy by using microorganisms. They are under the category of bio-electrochemical systems (BES), which are capable of producing power from a variety of organic wastes, including wastewater, agricultural waste, and even human faeces.
An anode (the electrode where oxidation takes place),
Railroads are a massively important part of a transportation system. But, while very efficient, the huge loads they carry on a vast and aging infrastructure can cause incredibly costly accidents, in loss of life and monetary terms. Train accidents appear to have increased by 25% in the last decade. Horribly obvious examples include the East Palestine, Ohio,
Proposal: Durable, Low-Cost Electric Vehicle with Solar Panel and Battery Cooling System
The proposed solution aims to develop a highly durable and cost-effective electric vehicle (EV) capable of long-distance travel at a nominal speed. This EV would accommodate up to four passengers and an additional load of 100 kg.
Millions of people all over the world experience tinnitus with very little traditional medicine can do. However, alleviating tinnitus could be accomplished with a device that would draw a small vacuum between the device and the tympanic membrane, ear drum, slightly changing the shape of the ear drum.
Our ears are constantly bombarded with sound waves.
Nowadays, various devices for open-loop monitoring in vehicles can be found. These devices consist of multiple video recording cameras; some even include audio recording systems. Due to the complexity of real-time monitoring of individuals, their interactions, moods, fatigue estimates, etc. The tracking of vehicle operation variables has been overlooked,
This power plant uses the landscape in three ways to create power that can be regulated keeping surges at a minimum. The power plant is adjacent to an area were deep water is on one side and lower land or water on the other.
Since the introduction of water cooling to offroad performance motorcycles in 1981 [1], the most integral part of engine thermal management has remained unchanged. The traditional design of radiators uses winding louvers to exchange heat with the surrounding air in repeated zigzagging patterns (shown in Figure 1).
Green-energy startup Planck Energies is developing a nanofibrious biopaint as a passive cooling coating. This product will improve building energy efficiency by reducing reliance on air conditioning systems. Crucially, this product will also offer low-cost cooling for populations in less industrialized, low income, or off-grid regions that cannot rely on A/C systems.
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tik-Tok, etc...have just made clear that 8 billion people, EVERYDAY, need to share something with others. While the digital platform is comfortable to use, it will never replace the pleasure to meet physically other people, other "human being" people.
The meeting points of today, which are more or less the same than 150 years ago,
Today, many cotton crops are dying as a result of poor quality and non-distribution of entomophages by hand for biological control of pests in cotton fields in our country.
We have created special equipment for the distribution of entomophagola. It attaches to a drone or tractor unit. At the same time,
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