Five reasons to heat your home using infrared fabric

New infrared fabric technology is easy to install, cheap to run and affordable so it has huge potential as a future alternative to heat pumps, especially for retrofit projects.

Michael Siebert, Lecturer in Architecture, School of Architecture, Design and Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University • conversation
Feb. 14, 2024 ~7 min

Here's one way to burn less fossil fuel -- use human energy to heat buildings instead

Extracting and storing human body heat we generate could improve building sustainability while cutting bills.

Amin Al-Habaibeh, Professor of Intelligent Engineering Systems, Nottingham Trent University • conversation
April 26, 2022 ~6 min


Research describes brain-based method for identifying cannabis impairment

Researchers have found a noninvasive brain imaging procedure to be an objective and reliable way to identify individuals whose performance has been impaired by THC.

Harvard Gazette • harvard
Jan. 11, 2022 ~4 min

James Webb Space Telescope: how our launch of world's most complex observatory will rest on a nail-biting knife edge

It will be a nail-biting wait as scientists launch and deploy the most complex observatory ever built.

Piyal Samara-Ratna, Principal Engineer, University of Leicester • conversation
Dec. 20, 2021 ~9 min

Infrared imaging could accurately screen for hidden COVID-19

Infrared imaging could make COVID-19 detection more accurate than traditional temperature checks, which can be unreliable.

Shirley Cardenas-McGill • futurity
March 22, 2021 ~6 min

Thermal cameras aren't perfect, but they can help control the coronavirus pandemic

Using infrared thermal imaging to screen for COVID19 poses no risk to the public but must be done correctly to be reliable.

Hamish Laing, Professor of Enhanced Innovation, Engagement and Outcomes, Swansea University • conversation
July 30, 2020 ~7 min

How to hide from a drone – the subtle art of 'ghosting' in the age of surveillance

Avoiding drones' prying eyes can be as complicated as donning a high-tech hoodie and as simple as ducking under a tree.

Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Associate Professor of Political Sociology, University of San Diego • conversation
July 28, 2020 ~7 min

Gene therapy and CRISPR strategies for curing blindness (Yes, you read that right)

Strategies to cure various types of blindness are looking more plausible after a series of recent breakthroughs using gene editing and gene therapy.

Hemant Khanna, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Massachusetts Medical School • conversation
June 25, 2020 ~9 min


How the Hubble Space Telescope opened our eyes to the first galaxies of the universe

Thirty years ago the Hubble Space Telescope began snapping photos of distant stars, providing a time machine that has taken astronomers back to when the universe was less than a billion years old.

Rodger I. Thompson, Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona • conversation
April 24, 2020 ~9 min

New plastic could bring infrared security to your home

Lenses made of a special type of plastic could lower the cost of infrared imaging for use in home security, fire protection, and autonomous vehicles.

Mikayla Mace-Arizona • futurity
Nov. 7, 2019 ~4 min

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