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Singapore's Tuas mega port has now successfully handled 10 million containers since it kicked off operations in September 2022, and is expected to handle 65 million shipping containers a year in the 2040s when its development is complete.

Surgical stitches are good for helping wounds heal, but they can pop open with too much movement. Scientists have now turned that weakness into a strength, developing stitches that generate an electric charge when stretched and heal wounds faster.

NASA scientists have discovered a third global energy field around Earth. Known as the ambipolar electric field, this force drives charged particles into space above the poles and joins the known gravity and electromagnetic fields.

It’s a fundamental principle of physics that particles with opposite charges attract each other, while those with the same charge repel. Scientists have now discovered that under certain conditions, particles can attract those of the same charge.

The brain’s natural defenses can make tumors in this part of the body difficult to treat, but scientists have found some early success using electrical fields in laboratory models that led to the selective death of tumor cells.

New research shows that swarms of insects like bees and locusts can actually produce atmospheric electric charges. By measuring the extent of this influence, the team found that large swarms could produce as much charge as a storm cloud.

It’s unsurprising but unfortunate that as we get older, our capacity to learn new skills diminishes. A new study by researchers at EPFL has found that non-invasive electrical brain stimulation can help older adults learn new motor skills much faster.

Could the future of rheumatoid arthritis treatment be a small implant designed to deliver bursts of electrical stimulation to a nerve that can regulate the body’s inflammatory reflex? Large clinical trials testing several implants are already underway.

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany are developing a way to harness electricity generated by a bacteria, a concept that may one day see smartphones running on electricity supplied by microscopic cyborgs.

Aiming to make sure we always uphold our gold standard of oral hygiene is Kolibree, a French start-up whose smart toothbrush tracks your brushing efforts to makes sure you are caring for the harder to reach places.

Scientists have developed new nanocrystals that allow solar panels to generate both electricity and hydrogen gas.

NovoTTF is first ever FDA approved cancer treatment for patients as an alternative to chemotherapy .