IK4-IKERLANek lankidetza hitzarmen bat izenpetu du Zuricheko ETH Unibertsitate ospetsuarekin (Suitza), zentroaren jarduera eremu garrantzitsuenetakoa den potentziako elektronikari lotutako I+G alorrean laguntzeko.

Medicine these days entertains all kinds of ambitious plans for reading off brain signals to control wheelchairs, or using electronics to bypass spinal injuries. But most of these ideas for implants that can interface with the nervous system run up against a basic materials problem: wires are stiff and bodies are soft.

That motivated some researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale, in Lausanne, Switzerland, to design a soft, flexible electronic implant, which they say has the same ability to bend and stretch as dura mater, the membrane that surrounds the brain and spinal cord.

Responsible for 400,000 deaths each year globally, air pollution has yet to be sufficiently addressed by the world's governments, researchers have warned. EurActiv France reports.

Air pollution damages the heart. According to an expert position paper published in the European Heart Journal, many types of cardiovascular disease are linked to poor air quality.

Look — I love my job. But damn do the folks at Disney’s research labs have a fun looking gig.

We’ve seen them build systems that let them 3D print impossible spinning tops, software to turn 3D models into massive parade balloons, and solutions for doing motion capture outdoors with nothing but a few GoPros.

Now they’re building robots that can draw sprawling pictures across the beach.