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Interview with Kerstin Borchhardt
Kerstin Borchhardt is an Associate Professor at the Institute of History and Theory of Art at Catholic Private University Linz. She has worked as a postdoc and lecturer at several German Universities and was a cooperating partner at UNAM in Mexico City. Her research interests include hybrid creatures, posthumanism, and the relationship of art, science, and popular culture. She has published…
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Titanic robots make farming more sustainable
There’s a lot riding on farmers’ ability to fight weeds, which can strangle crops and destroy yields. To protect crops, farmers have two options: They can spray herbicides that pollute the environment and harm human health, or they can hire more workers.
Unfortunately, both choices are becoming less tenable. Herbicide resistance is a growing problem in crops around the world, while widespread…
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Using mycelium to create a self-healing wearable leather-like material
A pair of biotechnologists at Newcastle University, working with a colleague from Northumbria University, all in the U.K., have developed a way to use mycelium to create a self-healing wearable material. In their paper published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials, Elise Elsacker, Martyn Dade-Robertson and Meng Zhang, describe their process and how well it worked when tested. Mycelium is…
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An Edible Rechargeable Battery
Edible electronics is a growing field that aims to produce digestible devices using only food ingredients and additives, thus addressing many of the shortcomings of ingestible electronic devices. Edible electronic devices will have major implications for gastrointestinal tract monitoring, therapeutics, as well as rapid food quality monitoring. Recent research has demonstrated the feasibility of…
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Interview with Claudia Schnugg
Interview with Claudia Schnugg
Dr. Claudia Schnugg is artscience scholar and curator. She holds a PhD in social and economic sciences with an additional focus on cultural sciences and media arts. Her ongoing practice in the field of art and science is twofold: as scholar she is researching artscience collaborations, investigating effects and impact of such art-science exchange on actors, organizations involved and the…
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Dialogues across the seas: the ocean that keeps us apart also joins us. Charting knowledge and practice in the Anthropocene
Dialogues across the seas: the ocean that keeps us apart also joins us. Charting knowledge and practice in the Anthropocene
This publication is about two events on the impact of the climate crisis on the seas and the marine environments. The first one was entitled “From the Mediterranean to the Pacific. Dialogues across the seas”, and took place on July 27-28, 2018, in Cervia, a coastal city nearby Ravenna where the Po Valley ends in the northern Adriatic Sea. Cervia is located in one of the most critical areas at…
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HumanitTies and Artificial Intelligence
HumanitTies and Artificial Intelligence
HumaniTies and Artificial Intelligence is a digital book of the European Commission on the relationship between Artificial Intelligence and society from different perspectives. The eBook, edited by Freddy Paul Grunert, with Massimo Craglia, Emilia Gómez Gutierrez and Jutta Thielen-del Pozo, presents 45 texts by authors from different humanistic and scientific backgrounds. Texts’ reviewers are…
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A new concept for low-cost batteries
A new concept for low-cost batteries
As the world builds out ever larger installations of wind and solar power systems, the need is growing fast for economical, large-scale backup systems to provide power when the sun is down and the air is calm. Today’s lithium-ion batteries are still too expensive for most such applications, and other options such as pumped hydro require specific topography that’s not always available.
Now,…
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Interview with Gabriele Romeo
Interview with Gabriele Romeo
Gabriele Romeo was born in Palermo in 1983. He has a bachelor’s degree in Science and Technology of the arts at the University of Palermo and a graduate degree in History of Art (with a specialization address on contemporary art) at the University of Bologna.
He followed a course of curatorship at the specialization school of the Fondazione Fotografia (Foundation for Photography/Fondazione…
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Tiny electromagnetic robot runs fast and re-forms after being squished
Tiny electromagnetic robot runs fast and re-forms after being squished
A squishy robot smaller than a postage stamp can run 70 of its body lengths every second – more than three times faster than a cheetah, relative to its body size.
“It is really, really fast and, to be honest, that was a little bit of a surprise,” says Martin Kaltenbrunner at Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria. “We actually bought a better version of a high-speed camera during the…
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CPUs PlasticArm: CPU Made Without Silicon
CPUs PlasticArm: CPU Made Without Silicon
Known for its core design IP that ends up in everything from IoT to smartphones to servers, Arm is now presenting that it has enabled one of its key microcontrollers in a new form factor: rather than using silicon as a base, the company has enabled a processor core in plastic. The technology has been in the works for almost a decade, but Arm has been waiting on the fabrication methods to create a…
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Brain-computer interface creates text on screen by decoding brain signals associated with handwriting
Brain-computer interface creates text on screen by decoding brain signals associated with handwriting
Scientists with the BrainGate research collaborative have, for the first time, used an implanted sensor to record the brain signals associated with handwriting and used those signals to create text on a computer in real time.
In a study published in the journal Nature, a clinical trial participant with cervical spinal cord injury used the system to “type” words on a computer at a rate of 90…
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Interview with Jeremy Hight
Interview with Jeremy Hight
Jeremy Hight is an artist,writer,theorist and sometimes digital curator. He created the field of Locative Narrative in 2002 with the collaborative project 34 North 118 West (https://collection.eliterature.org/3/work.html?work=34-north-118-west). His collaborative digital poetics work Carrizo Parkfield Diaries is in the permanent digital collection of the Whitney museum in New York.…
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"Smart clothes" that can measure your movements
“Smart clothes” that can measure your movements
In recent years there have been exciting breakthroughs in wearable technologies, like smartwatches that can monitor your breathing and blood oxygen levels.
But what about a wearable that can detect how you move as you do a physical activity or play a sport, and could potentially even offer feedback on how to improve your technique?
And, as a major bonus, what if the wearable were something you’d…
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New wearable device turns the body into a battery
New wearable device turns the body into a battery
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a new, low-cost wearable device that transforms the human body into a biological battery.
The device, described today in the journal Science Advances, is stretchy enough that you can wear it like a ring, a bracelet or any other accessory that touches your skin. It also taps into a person’s natural heat — employing thermoelectric…
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Interview with Jatun Risba Jatun Risba ('ki') is an artist of self, linguist of kinship and joker exploring beyond human paradigms.
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Surgical device inspired by parasitic wasps A surgical device inspired by parasitic wasps could make it easier and less painful to remove certain tumours and blood clots.
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