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Shapeshifting minibots printed with 3-D 'ink'

Jun 13, 2018 (AFP)

The shape-shifting material holds promise for flexible robotics and medicine, said the researchers, mooting tiny devices that can envelop a drug, transport it t...

Soaking up the water and the sweat - a new super desiccant

Jun 12, 2018 (SPX)

The new super dessicant, made from graphene oxide, significantly outperforms current drying agents, and is twice as absorbent as the industry standard, silica g...

Researchers mimic comet moth's silk fibers to make 'air-conditioned' fabric

Jun 12, 2018 (SPX)

New York, NY - May 17, 2018 - Fabrics made from silkworm fibers have long been treasured for their beautiful luster and refreshing coolness. Columbia Engineerin...

New 3D printer can create complex biological tissues

Jun 12, 2018 (SPX)

"Tissues are wonderfully complex structures, so to engineer artificial versions of them that function properly, we have to recreate their complexity," said Ali ...

A multimaterial, voxel-printing method turns imaging datasets into physical objects

Jun 12, 2018 (SPX)

A new data processing method pioneered by the Wyss Institute in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab removes that roadblock by converting various different form...

One-step, 3D printing for multimaterial projects developed by WSU researchers

Jun 12, 2018 (SPX)

The advance could potentially help manufacturers reduce manufacturing steps and use one machine to make complex products with multiple parts in one operation. U...

Scientists find ordered magnetic patterns in disordered magnetic material

Jun 12, 2018 (SPX)

While most electronic devices rely on the flow of electrons' charge, the scientific community is feverishly searching for new ways to revolutionize electronics ...

Cooling by laser beam

Jun 11, 2018 (SPX)

Research carried out by SISSA scientists a year ago had already provided several basic principles of the phenomenon. A new study published on Physical Review Le...

FEFU scientists have created a new type of optical ceramic material

Jun 11, 2018 (SPX)

The new type of optical ceramics was designed by young scientists' team of the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) under Denis Yu. Kosyanov, Ph.D., senior res...

New mechanisms discovered to separate air

Jun 11, 2018 (SPX)

Scientists from Shinshu University and PSL University, France, theoretically proved concerted motion of the nanowindow-rim to selectively allow molecules to pas...

Is there an end to the periodic table

Jun 11, 2018 (SPX)

Next year will mark the 150th anniversary of the formulation of the periodic table created by Dmitry Mendeleev. Accordingly, the United Nations proclaimed 2019 ...

JUICE comes in from extreme temperature test

Jun 08, 2018 (ESA)

One of the major challenges facing ESA's JUICE (JUpiter Icy Moon Explorer) will be the extreme temperatures that the spacecraft and its suite of instruments wil...

Large-scale and sustainable 3D printing with the most ubiquitous natural material

Jun 07, 2018 (SPX)

However, researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have recently demonstrated the use of cellulose to sustainably manufacture/fa...

Engineers convert commonly discarded material into high-performance adhesive

Jun 07, 2018 (SPX)

These sticky substances often are made from petroleum-derived materials, but what if there was a more sustainable way to make them? Now, a team of engineers at ...

Airbus-built Aeolus wind sensor satellite ready for shipment

Jun 07, 2018 (SPX)

The instrument is so sensitive that it could be damaged by a sudden loss of pressure. For this reason, air transportation has to be avoided and for the first ti...

Microsoft sinks data centre off Scottish island

Jun 06, 2018 (AFP)

The Northern Isles data centre consists of a 40-foot (12.2 metre) long white cylinder containing 864 servers -- enough to store five million movies -- and can l...

Supercomputer Astronomy: The Next Generation

Jun 05, 2018 (SPX)

ATERUI II simulates a wide range of astronomical phenomena inaccessible to observational astronomy, allowing us to boldly go where no one has gone before, from ...

Zn-InsP6 complex can enhance excretion of radioactive strontium from the body

Jun 04, 2018 (SPX)

It has been reported that internal exposure to 90Sr could be associated with the development of leukemia and osteosarcoma. Therefore, compounds inhibiting the a...

Microsoft says buying GitHub for $7.5 bn

Jun 04, 2018 (AFP)

The tech giant, based in Washington state, is a heavyweight in terms of software whose source codes are not openly available or modifiable, exactly the counter ...

Firing up a new alloy

Jun 04, 2018 (SPX)

"In space the rules of sintering change," said Rand German, principal investigator for the investigation titled NASA Sample Cartridge Assembly-Gravitational Eff...