4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn't Hear About This Week

Volcano music and other rockin' EARTH SCIENCE stories! It's 4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn't Hear About!

WHO DID THE RESEARCH?

Volcanologist jams to the beat of the Earth's drummer

https://around.uoregon.edu/content/volcanologist-jams-beat-earths-drummer

University of Oregon

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

Geoscientists create deeper look at processes below Earth’s surface with 3D images

https://www.utdallas.edu/news/science-technology/geoscientists-add-deeper-dimension-to-study-of-areas-below-earths-surface

University of Texas at Dallas

Fiber Optic Seismic Array in Pasadena Tracked the Rose Parade

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/fiber-optic-seismic-array-pasadena-tracks-rose-parade

The California Institute of Technology

OptaSense Inc.

University of Alcalá and Spanish National Research Council in Spain

New tool for identifying endangered corals could help conservation efforts

https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=301169

The Pennsylvania State University

NOAA Restoration Center

University of North Carolina Wilmington

Can earthquakes be predicted? Can robots assist in HAZMAT disasters? How can wildfires be prevented? How can we stop flooding? It's research to the rescue: Smart Walls, robot responders, wildfire cocktail & seismic signs! And it's all here in episode 42 of "4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About."

WHO DID THE RESEARCH?

Smart Walls Construction

https://www.smartwallsconstruction.com

Dr. Jorge Cueto and Anthony Nesci

How Squishy Robotics created a robot that can be safely dropped out of a helicopter

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/18/how-squishy-robotics-created-an-robot-that-can-be-safely-dropped-out-of-a-helicopter

Squishy Robotics, Inc, https://squishy-robotics.com

UC Berkeley, Berkeley Emergent Space Tensegrities Lab

Wildfire Rx: Where medical science meets wildfire prevention

Dr. Eric Andrew Appel and Dr. Anthony Yu, Stanford University

LaderaTECH, https://www.ladera.tech

Perimeter Solutions, https://perimeter-solutions.com

Small quake clusters can’t hide from AI

Rice University

4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About - Episode 41

A mattress becomes a skateboard wheel!?! Something missing in a mammoth Maya monument. Rock 'n roll -- with real rocks! And a deep relationship. (Except one eats the other.)

It’s 4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About…all with funding from the National Science Foundation.

Utah’s rock arches continue to whisper their secrets

https://attheu.utah.edu/uncategorized/arches-whisper-secrets/

University of Utah

Upcycling spongy plastic foams

https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=300522

Northwestern University

Exploring Methane Seep Ecosystems

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/deep-sea-worms-and-bacteria-team-harvest-methane

California Institute of Technology

Largest and Oldest Known Maya Structure Found

https://nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=300785&org=SBE&from=news

University of Arizona

The singing, song-writing robot, privacy advisory, cloud seeding succeeding, safer self-driving, and arming yourself with tentacles. It’s 4 Awesome Discoveries and a Thing You Probably Didn’t Hear About.

New infrastructure will enhance privacy in today’s Internet of Things

https://cylab.cmu.edu/news/2020/02/19-privacy-assistant.html

Carnegie Mellon University

Internet of Things (IoT) Portal: https://www.iotprivacy.io/login

IoT Assistant app is available in both the Apple iOS and Google Play stores

Shimon: Now a singing, song writing robot

https://www.news.gatech.edu/2020/02/25/shimon-now-singing-songwriting-robot

Georgia Institute of Technology

“Into Your Mind,” music video by Shimon the Robot

Scientists demonstrate that cloud seeding can generate snowfall

https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=300089

University of Colorado

National Center for Atmospheric Research

University of Wyoming

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Idaho Power Company

Researchers look under the road to aid self-driving cars

https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=300108

MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab

Octopus-inspired robot can grip, move, and manipulate a wide range of objects

https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2020/02/tentacle-bot

Harvard University

Beihang University in Beijing, China

Festo SE & Co. KG, Germany

Credit: National Science Foundation

Stinging snot bombs, graphene from trash in a flash, coronavirus creature feature, and sweating robots – cool!

Researchers create 3D-printed, sweating robot muscle

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/01/researchers-create-3d-printed-sweating-robot-muscle

Cornell University

Italian Institute of Technology’s Center for Micro-BioRobotics

Rice lab turns trash into valuable graphene in a flash

https://news.rice.edu/2020/01/27/rice-lab-turns-trash-into-valuable-graphene-in-a-flash/

Rice University

Universal Matter Ltd.

C-Crete Technologies

Coronavirus outbreak raises question: Why are bat viruses so deadly?

https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/02/10/coronavirus-outbreak-raises-question-why-are-bat-viruses-so-deadly/

University of California, Berkeley

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Princeton University

Charité Universitätsmedizin, Germany

Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School

Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

Stinging water mystery solved - Jellyfish can sting swimmers, prey with 'mucus grenades'

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/s-swm021020.php

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

National Aquarium

University of Kansas

Rice University

Texas A&M University

Stanford University

California State University

Body surfing bees, unsinkable metal, faster space forecaster, and gutsy mealworms purge plastic!

Stanford researchers show that mealworms can safely consume toxic additive-containing plastic

https://news.stanford.edu/press/view/31674

Stanford University

Detecting solar flares in real time

https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299753

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information

University of Colorado Boulder

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at CU Boulder

Bees “surf” atop water

https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299799

California Institute of Technology

Spiders and ants inspire metal that won’t sink

https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/superhydrophobic-metal-wont-sink-406272/

Related technology by High-Intensity Femtosecond Laser Lab: http://www2.optics.rochester.edu/workgroups/guo/media.html

University of Rochester

Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics, and Physics in China

Credit: National Science Foundation

Spider eyes - jumping wise, kirigami graphene, design for the blind, and coming up for landing

Kirigami inspires new method for wearable sensors

https://mechanical.illinois.edu/news/kirigami-inspires-new-method-wearable-sensors

Keong Yong and Ezekiel Hsieh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Most complete exploration of fly landing maneuvers to advance future robots

https://news.psu.edu/story/593959/2019/10/23/research/most-complete-exploration-fly-landing-maneuvers-advance-future

The Pennsylvania State University

Colorado State University

National Centre for Biological Sciences in India

Stanford increasing access to 3D modeling through touch-based display

https://news.stanford.edu/2019/10/29/touchable-display-helps-blind-people-create/

Stanford University

Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute

Compact depth sensor inspired by spiders

https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2019/10/compact-depth-sensor-inspired-spiders

Harvard University

UC Berkeley

National University of Singapore

High five… and a half, snakehead stroll, designer meat, and capturing the symphony of life... It's 4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About!

Walking Frankenfish, and other news

Walking Frankenfish, and other creature features

Bizarre creature’s feature

Extra-long finger, super-short thumb

Another bizarre feature of this bizarre creature

Power of High-Speed Microscope to Illuminate Biology at the Speed of Life

https://zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/columbia-scientists-demonstrate-power-high-speed-microscope-illuminate-biology-speed-life

University of Columbia

Nagoya City University in Japan

Gimme Six! Researchers Discover Aye-Aye’s Extra Finger

https://news.ncsu.edu/2019/10/aye-aye-extra-finger/

North Carolina State University

Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris

Real texture for lab-grown meat

https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2019/10/real-texture-lab-grown-meat

Harvard University Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Harvard Materials Research Science and Engineering Center

Poor water conditions drive invasive snakehead onto land

https://news.wfu.edu/2019/10/22/poor-water-conditions-drive-invasive-snakeheads-onto-land

Wake Forest University

Maryland Department of Natural Resources

Wildfire cocktail, electronic tattoos, chill dinosaurs, and office polluters. It's 4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn't Hear About!

ENG/Light-up tattoos use electronics printed right onto skin

https://pratt.duke.edu/about/news/print-in-place-electronics

Duke University

University of Manchester UK

ENG/How much are you polluting your office air just by existing?

https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2019/Q4/how-much-are-you-polluting-your-office-air-just-by-existing.html

Purdue University

RJ Lee Group

BIO/Huge dinosaurs evolved different cooling systems to combat heat stroke

https://www.ohio.edu/news/2019/10/new-ohio-study-shows-huge-dinosaurs-evolved-different-cooling-systems-combat-heat

Ohio University

EdHR-ENG/Stanford researchers have developed a gel-like fluid to prevent wildfires

https://news.stanford.edu/2019/09/30/new-treatment-prevents-wildfires/

Stanford University

California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo

Desert Research Institute

Credit: National Science Foundation

3-D reconstructions show how ancient sharks found an alternative way to feed

https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/biological-sciences-articles/2019/september/3d-reconstructions-show-how-ancient-sharks-found-an-alternative-way-to-feed

University of Chicago

Brown University

University College Dublin

National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

Look out, invasive species: The robots are coming

https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/look-out-invasive-species-robots-are-coming

New York University

University of Western Australia

Grains in the Rain

https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299271

University of California Riverside

University of California Davis

Emory University

National University of La Plata in Argentina

Utrecht University in the Netherlands

Stevens researchers to develop handheld device to diagnose skin cancer

https://www.stevens.edu/news/stevens-researchers-develop-handheld-device-diagnose-skin-cancer

Stevens Institute of Technology

Hackensack University Medical Center