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…
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Tomorrow's protective materials harden on impact thanks to adaptive protein crystals
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, rather than thinning as familiar materials do…
Read moreVienna-Bratislava Hyperloop will be protected by the no longer fictional Vibranium
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 and Vienna via a tube, transporting passengers on the 70km track in eight minutes…
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