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The monthly service, MEL Kids, visually translates difficult-to-understand science concepts through hands-on experiments, an accompanying illustrated comic book and a lesson delivered via augmented reality app.
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FEATURED VIDEOS
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New science-education subscription service for kids
21 Aug 2019 -
Seeking welder with 'golden arm,' developer turns to cobot system
01 May 2019 -
Listen to a Bit of Space History
15 Nov 2018 -
Watch: 13 Ocean Solutions for Climate Change
04 Oct 2018 -
A First for Flat Lenses: Full-Color Imaging
03 Oct 2018
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Watch a drug-delivery microrobot navigate a colon
16 Oct 2020Source: S. HimmelsteinThe untethered payload-packing bot flips and tumbles through the colon under externally applied magnetic manipulation. -
Video: Fatigue testing prevents product failure in extreme temperature operating environments
16 Oct 2020Source: Engineering360 News DeskAerospace and other sectors require components that function reliably in extreme temperatures, underscoring the need for manufacturers to subject parts and components to a range of fatigue testing prior to implementation. -
Watch: Scare up these Halloween creations with lasers
15 Oct 2020Source: S. HimmelsteinSeasonally themed designs featuring patterns, family names or company logos can be created to spruce up one's surroundings or provide a new business revenue stream. -
Watch: First room-temperature superconductor developed
15 Oct 2020Source: S. HimmelsteinThe thermal challenge to broader deployment of superconductors may have been overcome with the discovery of a material capable of superconductivity at room temperature. -
Video: High tech transport device helps organs, vaccines keep their cool
14 Oct 2020Source: S. HimmelsteinVaccines and donor organs have been transported in enclosures as technologically sophisticated as beverage coolers, until now. -
Watch: Microreactors could keep electrified semis trucking
14 Oct 2020Source: S. HimmelsteinA rest stop power supply solution in the form of nuclear microreactors could fill a gap in recharging infrastructure for electric long-haul, 18-wheel trucks. -
Smaller. Denser. Faster.
14 Oct 2020Fischer Connectors' new products push innovation - next level of SWaP, cable management, data transmission. -
Tiny sensors can be affixed to moths, small drones
13 Oct 2020Source: Marie DonlonTiny drones or moths can be deployed to conduct research. -
Fluorescence can "see" what you can't
13 Oct 2020Fluorescence targets selected compounds in liquids. Find out the basics of fluorescence here. -
Video: New approach to 3D printing microfluidic channels
12 Oct 2020Source: S. HimmelsteinThe technique holds promise for synthesizing fluid channels at the micron scale for automated production of medical diagnostic and sensor systems. -
Video: The youngest person to achieve nuclear fusion
12 Oct 2020Source: S. HimmelsteinThe latest entrant into the Guinness Book of World Records was 12 years old when he demonstrated the merger of two deuterium atoms with a home-built fusor. -
Video: Argonne releases GREET 2020
12 Oct 2020Source: S. HimmelsteinThe 2020 version of the suite of GREET (Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Transportation) models and associated documentation has been issued. -
We are Gravotech
12 Oct 2020We shape the future of the Expression of Things! -
Tech company develops autonomous street sweepers
07 Oct 2020Source: Marie DonlonTake a look at the new technology cleaning up the streets. -
Watch an underwater robot mimic squid
07 Oct 2020Source: Marie DonlonWatch as an underwater robot propels itself like a fast-moving squid. -
Watch: Wearable sensor walks back the cost of gait analysis
06 Oct 2020Source: S. HimmelsteinFootwear-worn sensors are as accurate and more economical than current gold-standard mat tests used to assess fall risk. -
Killing COVID-19...on elevators
06 Oct 2020Source: Marie DonlonAn elevator manufacturer has developed technology for killing and preventing the spread of the COVID-19 virus in cabs. -
High-precision white light interferometers for industry and automation
05 Oct 2020Micro-Epsilon's white light interferometers are used for high-precision distance and thickness measurement with a subnanometer resolution. -
Watch and help NASA hunt for exoplanets
02 Oct 2020Source: S. HimmelsteinCitizen scientists are invited to help NASA explore for exoplanets through the newly launched Planet Patrol initiative. -
Video: Artificial organ growth supported by 3D-printed fluid system
02 Oct 2020Source: S. HimmelsteinA 3D-printed thermofluidic system remotely controls the positioning and timing of cell functions to build artificial tissues.