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Looking to safeguard against lithium-ion battery failure, a team of scientists has developed a smart chip that can be embedded inside these batteries to monitor their health, offering a warning when they're at risk of catching fire or exploding. ​

A glue that performs at a high-level in wet environments could bring about all sorts of possibilities in areas like surgical care and ship maintenance. A team from Singapore's Nanyang Technological University claim to have developed such a glue, which hardens when an electrical voltage is applied.

Scientists have installed an electronic backpack on giant flower beetles, allowing them to be remotely controlled while in free flight. The technology not only gave the researchers a better insight into how the insects fly, but it could also find use in areas such as search-and-rescue.

Researchers have found that fiber optics can be used to build low-power, high-bandwidth artificial neurons that mimic their biological counterparts. This technology could lead to computers that think and learn like a human.

The recently-completed Learning Hub is a new educational building that will serve 33,000 students at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Designed by Britain's Heatherwick Studio, it looks like a big bunch of brutalist parsnips, and also boasts some sustainable design.

A 3D-printed partially-solar-powered, battery electric car is all set to hit the racetrack at Shell’s Eco-marathon Asia later this month.The urban concept car called the NTU Venture (NV) 8 can reportedly achieve a top speed of about 60 km/h (37 mph).

A smart window developed at NTU is able to tint itself blue, partially blocking incoming light, without the need for an external power source and also functions as a small transparent battery that recharges on its own simply by interacting with the oxygen in its surroundings.

Someday soon, your milk carton may be able to tell you that the milk has spoiled. This could be made possible by a new technique developed at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, which allows disposable electronics to be printed on a variety of surfaces, using an existing T-shirt printer.

A nanotube-based anode for lithium-ion batteries can charge cells to 70 percent of their capacity in only two minutes and has a very long lifespan of ten thousand charge/discharge cycles.

A startup from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore hopes to give 3D printing more mass market appeal with the Blacksmith Genesis, a new all-in-one 3D printer, scanner, and copier boasts a revolving platform and handles all of the tedious and tricky parts of the process for you.

There seems to be no end to the proposed human technologies based on attributes of the squid. Now, it turns out that the teeth inside the suckers on their tentacles might be the basis for materials that could be used in fields such as reconstructive surgery.

Researchers from Nanyang Technological University have discovered a solar cell material that both absorbs light and emits it. With a variety of potential applications, the researchers say the material, Perovskite, opens up the possibility of mobile devices with displays that double as solar cells.