Month: July 2017

Electrical signals running through our bodies central and peripheral nervous system, heart and brain, control and facilitate everything we do.  Our bodies break down the food we eat in a process called cellular respiration to create energy and power to do work as electrolytes cross cell membranes, creating ionic current electrical discharges.  Now a team of scientists at the University of Maryland (UMD)  published in the July 24 issue of Nature Communications, has invented an ion-based electrical battery that could have many important uses as wearable medical devices. Traditional batteries produce electrical current while the human body works on ionic current, so shockingly you don’t have...

Despite billions of dollars spent on recycling marketing, U.S. recycling efforts have not improved in 20 years. And recycling efforts do need to improve as we in the U.S. recycle less than 22% of our garbage. To top it all off according to the World Watch Institute, while the U.S. represents 5% of the world population, we produce more waste than any other country in the world. Luckily, Clarke the robot named after the sci-fi author Arthur C. Clark, and developed by AMP Robotics,  is on the job now to help us recycle the refuge from the 500 million tons of plastic produced...

There are so many benefits of 3D printing that can end up changing the world as we know it, but in a few cases perhaps not for the better.  The reliability has improved while the initial price barrier for 3D printers has dropped making them accessible to nearly everyone and allows users to make all kinds of products in their homes.  Getting started is fairly easy and there are many open-source product plan ideas that can be purchased, even items that are controlled and illegal to make at home.  A new University of Manchester study by Judith Aldridge, Professor of Criminology, has found 12...