A finding by a University of Central Florida researcher unlocks a means of controlling materials at the nanoscale and opens the door to a new generation of manufacturing…
It’s a user interface that goes far beyond graphical interaction and clumsy touchscreens. Today’s touch-based interfaces are like a stone flint to what MIT’s Tangible Media Group is working on. Materials with almost
It is a relatively well known fact that diamonds could make for pretty great semiconductors. They are thermally conductive, foregoing the need for bulky cooling, and they can handle high
Chemists at UC San Diego have created an “adaptive protein crystal” with a counterintuitive and potentially useful property: When stretched in one direction, the material thickens in the perpendicular direction,
Researchers can build complex, nanometer-scale structures of almost any shape and form, using strands of DNA. But these particles must be designed by hand, in a complex and laborious process.
Nowadays, wearable devices are everyday and mostly hard to get excited about, as useful as they are beyond their vanity features. Once in a while, however, a potential game-changer comes
Glue with completely adjustable strength and viscosity? Immensely more useful than you might imagine. This novel adhesive pretty much erases the various issues that come up in manufacturing and repair:
Two-photon excitation microscopy was first observed in 1961. Although it was first theorized about back in 1930s, only the invention of laser made it possible. Then it had to wait
There is no shortage of research teams and start-ups that are heavily involved in Hyperloop, the concept of engineer and business magnate Elon Musk, that is set on connecting Bratislava
For thousands of years, humans were the only judges of beauty. Even though the criteria for beauty change, for objects and humans both, the judges were always the same, until
