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See-Through Computing

Lenovo’s ThinkBook laptop concept boasts a 17.3-inch micro-LED transparent display that looks like a glass pane and is less than 4 millimeters thick. The keyboard is replaced with a smooth surface, which users can project...

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Scanning Cars in Seconds

Brothers Amir and Ohad Hever had the idea for UVeye a decade ago, after witnessing the clunky system, involving manually checking underneath vehicles using mirrors, being used to sweep cars for bombs in a secure...

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Simplifying Skin Cancer Detection

When it comes to skin cancer, primary care physicians often struggle to distinguish malignant lesions from non-malignant ones, while dermatologists have long wait times. DermaSensor’s titular device is the first of its kind cleared by...

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A Rugged Portable Speaker

Most portable outdoor speakers are better suited to sit on a picnic table than go mountain biking or tubing down a river. The Hydrablast 2.0’s built-in mount, magnets, and carabiner, allow users to clip it...

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A New Way To Clean Steel

Making steel, an alloy of iron and carbon, is notoriously polluting. But Electra, a Boulder-based company looking to change that, opened its first pilot plant in 2024 and has already partnered with the largest U.S....

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Helping Climate-Friendly Farmers

Although carbon dioxide takes center stage in greenhouse gas talk, nitrous oxide (N2O) is the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture and third biggest overall. However, many companies have stalled out on curbing...

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Keeping Buildings Cool

To test its anti-flammability technology, NanoTech Materials slathered an egg in its Wildfire Shield coating and set it ablaze. It remained raw. Meant for buildings, the product contains their Insulative Ceramic Particle (ICP), a powder...

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Reducing Cattle’s Footprint

Cow flatulence is a significant contributor to the greenhouse gas in our atmosphere. Swiss-Dutch company DSM-Firmenich’s Bovaer addresses that issue at source: The feed additive slows down the last step of the methane production process...

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Reducing IUD Pain

When it comes to women's pain? "Nobody cares," says Ikram Guerd, global marketing VP for medical device company Aspivix. It wasn't until this August that the CDC even officially urged ob-gyns to offer medication to...

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A Protein Marketplace

After decades of research, scientists have identified millions of naturally occurring proteins. These proteins can be used as ingredients in foods and consumer-packaged goods to augment taste, texture, and other properties, but surprisingly, we still...

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Tackling Schizophrenia

People with schizophrenia now have a new drug to treat the neuropsychiatric condition. Cobenfy, which comes in capsule form, works on the muscarinic nervous system, a different network from existing treatments, which primarily target the...

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Saving Crucial Time

Sepsis is one of the leading causes of death in U.S. hospitals, and affects about 1.7 million people each year. Time is of the essence when diagnosing sepsis, but doctors have historically not had reliable...

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Jupiter-Bound Mission

One of the most tantalizing worlds in the solar system is Europa, a moon of Jupiter covered in a rind of ice, beneath which, scientists believe, lies a warm, salty, mineral-rich ocean—and possibly living organisms....

Fertility Helper

As a 32-year-old newlywed, Jennifer Hintzsche was diagnosed with unexplained infertility. Rather than pay $10,000 for intrauterine insemination, a procedure in which sperm is deposited directly into the uterus, Hintzsche—who has a Ph.D. in biology...

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