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If you’re driving in the rain, you need your windscreen wipers to work. Maintaining a clear view is equally important for any surgery involving a laparoscope. Which is why the device, a slender rod with a camera tip, has recently been modified by an engineering student from BYU in Utah. He developed a kind of windscreen wiper for camera...

Gyro Gearloose was famous for his inventions. Take the amazing bread-buttering machine. How owls might have inspired him is anyone’s guess. Cue the latest design from an Alabama-based company that could have the potential to revolutionize the aviation industry. Its prototype has two engines mounted to the rear rather than under the wings. Its three pairs of wings are...

Connecting with like-minded people is important. Now, thanks to a new platform launched by an Atlanta-based startup, women from the LGBTQ community can do just that. Members need to be female, queer and over 24 years old. And it isn’t just about establishing contacts. The network offers events, travel recommendations and a business directory. First launched as a Facebook...

We use around 46,500 liters of water per year. Most of it winds up in wastewater treatment plants. Now a research team at the University of Gothenburg is on the hunt for a sustainable solution that ensures the water in fish farms is kept clean and the fish healthy. Contamination can be caused by fish sludge, made up of...

If you have a picnic you take your rubbish with you when you go. Now a team of Florida University students is applying the same logic to space. Cleaning up what’s been left behind. The team is refining a satellite-like cube that picks up space trash with the help of integrated robots. Trash is brought closer to the earth...

Nature offers plenty of scope for innovation. From street-lamps to cooling packaging and micro-hydraulic robots. Taking inspiration from one of the strongest materials in the world - spider’s silk - a team of scientists from the University of Cambridge has developed a new alternative to single-use plastics. First came protein research to ascertain what made the spider’s silk so...