Case Western Reserve University

​We've already heard how batteries that are built into the structure of items – such as cars or satellites – could help extend run times without increasing bulk. Now, the flight time of a drone has been almost doubled, thanks to such "structural batteries."

We’ve had the internet of things for years now. You may well already have smart devices controlling your home. But what might the future of smart home technology look like? Two scientists at Case Western Reserve University believe it could well be something they are calling the “internet of ears.”

​Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) inflicts millions of people around the world with an increasing prevalence. A new study has found that people diagnosed with IBD have a significantly higher risk of heart attack, especially in younger patients.

​Origami has plenty to offer the world of robotics, the latest example of which is a tower-shaped soft robot that can grasp objects and could safely interact with humans, possibly even as a tool for invasive surgeries.

​​Although a lot of us may already slather on the vitamin E when we get sunburned, it looks like vitamin D might also help our skin to recover. In a recent study conducted by Case Western University, it was found that orally-administered vitamin D can actually promote healing.

By implanting recording electrodes under the skull of a paralyzed man and others into in his arm, scientists have reconnected his brain to his paralyzed muscles and enabled him to perform everyday tasks like drinking water and eating a forkful of food. ​

Bacteria have had almost 100 years to become impervious to penicillin antibiotics, so finding news ways to take them down is getting critical. Now researchers have found what all good combat specialists have long known – getting each other's back in a fight can be a winning strategy.​

When you're not as big as the rest of the guys, you need different strategies to thrive. That seems to be what's happened with a rare fish known as a a Minckley's cichlid. While big males of the species horde the females, the smaller guys use speed and stealth to make sure their DNA gets passed on.

In a similar vein to the recent stingray robot made of rat heart cells and a gold skeleton, researchers have created a robot from sea slug muscles attached to a 3D-printed body, aiming to one day send swarms of biohybrid robots on sea search missions.

New software has been developed that incorporates all the complexities of the equations of Einstein's general theory of relativity to help produce models of the cosmos far more complex and detailed than ever before constructed

Researchers have identified slow-moving brainwaves they say could be carried only by the brain's gentle electrical field, a mechanism previously thought to be incapable of spreading neural signals on its own.​​

There are already stem cells that are capable of repairing the damage done by multiple sclerosis, but getting them to do so has proven very difficult. Now, however, scientists may have found the answer – and it involves medications that were designed to treat athlete's foot and eczema.