WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Europe Records Institute (EURI) Cancer Research UK: World's largest independent cancer research organization
13-04-2023
(WorldKings.org) Cancer Research UK funds the work of over 4,000 researchers, doctors, and nurses throughout the UK, supports over 200 clinical trials, and studies cancer and cancer risk in over a million people in the UK.
[Worldkings] Top ideas organizations in the world (P. 108) Experiment (USA): Fundraising platform for future scientific discoveries
04-04-2023
(Worldkings.org) Experiment is an online platform for discovering, funding and sharing scientific research. The organization is a group of scientists, designers, and technologists passionate about helping ideas grow.
[Worldkings] Top 50 Universities with Innovative Research (P. 50) University of Alberta (Canada): Successfully unlocked the technology of charging uniforms capable of killing bacteria
04-03-2023
(Worldkings.org) Did you know that there is clothing that can kill viruses and bacteria on contact? It helps protect the people who protect us (first responders), but getting that type of protective finish onto their uniforms is a big challenge.
[Worldkings] Top 50 Universities with Innovative Research (P. 49) Örebro University (Sweden): Developing breakthrough radar sensor capable of 'seeing' through fog
03-03-2023
(Worldkings.org) Radar sensors will be able to replace laser sensors on vehicles that operate in low visibility.
[Worldkings] Top 50 Universities with Innovative Research (P. 48) University of Waterloo (Canada): Making the first gecko robot to be an effective assistant for doctors in surgery
02-03-2023
(Worldkings.org) A small robot that could one day help doctors perform surgery was inspired by the incredible grasping ability of geckos and the efficient motion of inchworms.
[Worldkings] Top 50 Universities with Innovative Research (P. 47) Carnegie Mellon University (USA): Developing a breakthrough system that can see through walls thanks to wifi routers
01-03-2023
(Worldkings.org) Researchers have been working on ways to “see” people without using cameras or expensive LiDAR hardware for years.
[Worldkings] Top 100 innovation events in the world (P. 46) Meta joins the AI race with a new language model for researchers (USA)
28-02-2023
(Worldkings.org) Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta, formerly known as Facebook, will release a new large language model based on artificial intelligence (AI).
[Worldkings] Top 50 Universities with Innovative Research (P. 46) University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA): Inventing a revolutionary "electronic nose" that can "smell" diseases
28-02-2023
(Worldkings.org) The researchers produced a nanowire 10,000 times thinner than a human hair that can be cheaply grown by common bacteria and tuned to "smell."
[Worldkings] Top 50 Universities with Innovative Research (P. 45) Rice University (USA): Effectively transform plastic waste into valuable nanomaterials
27-02-2023
(Worldkings.org) Scientists create carbon nanotubes and other hybrid nanomaterials out of plastic waste using an energy-efficient, low-cost, low-emissions process that could also be profitable.
[Worldkings] Top 50 Universities with Innovative Research (P. 44) Ben Gurion University (Israel): Big breakthrough in developing robots to rescue people after floods
25-02-2023
(Worldkings.org) Potential uses for the robot include search and rescue, particularly in the event of natural disasters such as floods and tsunamis.