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Coating Enables Fabric to Mimic Muscle Movement
The technology may offer opportunities to design "textile muscles" that could be incorporated into clothes, making it easier for people with disabilities to move.
Toolkit to Aid in Design of Reconfigurable Metamaterials
A toolkit to aid in design of reconfigurable metamaterials provides smart strategies for exploring design possibilities.
Pacemakers Powered By the Sun?
Research provides data on the potential of powering medical implants with solar cells.
Lithium Recovery from Oil Brine
Production time for recovering lithium from heavy oil wastewater is reduced 99% compared with the use of solar evaporation technology.
Biofilter Catches What Current Air Filters Can’t
A soy-based filter developed by researchers from the U.S. and China captures hazardous gaseous molecules that escape commercial air purifiers.
Modeling Tools Help Optimize Bus Routes
The debut of wireless charging buses in Stockholm, Sweden included introduction of a model to propose optimal locations for installing chargers on the bus network.
Underwater Robots That Mimic Ocean Life
The instruments are equipped with temperature and other sensors to measure the surrounding ocean conditions while the robots "swim" up and down to maintain a constant depth by adjusting their buoyancy.
California University Buys All-Electric Buses
Undergraduates voted to pay up to $40 per quarter to the Associated Students of UCI to cover the bus purchase and other costs.
P&G Makes Shampoo Bottles from Waste Beach Plastic
Well-known shampoo will soon come in recyclable bottle made of waste beach plastic.
Gyroids May Shape Future of Structural Composites
MIT researchers used complex geometric shapes known as gyroids to shape unique 3-D form of 2-D graphene.
Liquid Crystal Design for Portable Chemical Sensors
Using computational modeling and lab experiments, researchers developed a framework for creating inexpensive liquid-crystal-based chemical sensors.
Everyday Use of Legal Metrology Standards
When you go to the grocery store and buy a pound of flour or a liter of soda, how do you know you are getting exactly one pound or one liter?
Self-assembling Perovskite Films: Alternative to GaN in LEDs?
The self-assembly technique yields uniform, ultra-fine-grained films, where previous fabrication processes have not.
Novel Technique for Low-Cost Nanowire Production
The method works at ambient temperature and pressure without the use of catalysts, toxic chemicals or processes such as chemical vapor deposition.
2016 Ranks as Warmest Year since 1880
Both the U.S. space agency NASA and the National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration say that Earth's 2016 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern record-keeping began in 1880.
Have a Look at This Free Circadian Stimulus Calculator
The CS metric was developed to quantify the impact of light on acute melatonin suppression, a marker of circadian system activation.
Supply Chain Dynamics Subject of MIT Study
Researchers studied the production of 57 different materials, goods, and services for evidence of dematerialization.
Done-on-One Machines from Okuma
The machines are capable of milling, turning, grinding, 3D-metal printing, and heat treating for a range of workpiece sizes and shapes.
Metamaterial Can Change from Hard to Soft—and Back Again
Researchers discovered a way to compose a metamaterial that can be easily manipulated to increase the stiffness of its surface by orders of magnitude—the difference between rubber and steel.
Transit Pain: Denver's Train to the Plane
The much-ballyhooed A Line, designed as a fast way to move passengers to and from downtown’s Union Station to Denver International Airport, has been plagued by glitches almost from the moment it opened last April.