Entries are now open for the 20th Create the Future Design Contest, a global challenge to engineers and innovators around the world to design the next great thing. [ + ]

Researchers used a catalysis strategy to produce two-electron storage in organic radical batteries — a big advance in improving their storage capability. [ + ]

The university says the lab will foster collaboration and effective robotics development, providing experimental space and equipment to enable realistic experimental validation. [ + ]

After the ink is printed, it self-organises into a conductive pattern with a copper core–nickel shell nanostructure. [ + ]

The lightweight textile produced over 35 V using mild artificial movements that replicated slow body movements. [ + ]

The Lightweight Persistence Centric System (LightPC) makes the systems resilient against power failures by utilising only non-volatile memory as the main memory. [ + ]

Japanese researchers have developed wood-derived semiconductors that can be tuned for use in a range of sustainable electronic devices. [ + ]

LightSlingers use volume-distributed polarisation currents, animated within a dielectric to faster-than-light speeds, to emit electromagnetic waves. [ + ]

Scientists have fabricated a flexible material that lights up brightly when stretched and/or when an electric field is applied. [ + ]

Digi-Key Electronics has launched 'Revolutionizing Automation', a video series that explores automation and control technologies, as well as Season 2 of its 'City Digital' series on smart cities. [ + ]

Researchers will focus on taking raw materials and synthesising the core quantum systems of high-performance, scalable diamond-based quantum microprocessors. [ + ]

Autonomous systems experts reverse-engineered the visual systems of hoverflies to detect drones' acoustic signatures from almost 4 km away. [ + ]

Korean researchers have developed a 3″ meta-display that can be stretched up to 25% without image distortion. [ + ]

An approach that produces single-crystal graphene sheets on large-scale electrically insulating supports could help with the development of next-gen nanomaterial-based devices. [ + ]

The innovative honeycomb design enables light absorption from any angle and traps light inside the solar cell, enabling more energy to be generated. [ + ]