Microbots That Swarm to Build Structures
At SRI International in Silicon Valley, researchers have developed perhaps the most impressive microbot army yet: the MicroFactory. It’s an ant colony made robotic, with...
Space Nation app – allowing anyone to become an astronaut
New Astronaut Training App Can Get You a Free Trip to Space
HELSINKI, FINLAND, 2018 – Finnish startup Space Nation launches the Space Nation Astronaut...
MK27 creates polycarbonate glazed pavilion in São Paulo
Brazilian firm Studio MK27 has used timber, polycarbonate panels, white metal sheets to form an austere building for Micasa, a contemporary furniture retailer based...
Chemistry may have solutions to our plastic trash problem
Chemists explore ways to convert plastics into valuable products and to develop intrinsically recyclable polymers
The world’s mounting plastic trash crisis is hard to solve...
Volvo Cars aims for 25 per cent recycled plastics in every...
Volvo Cars, the premium carmaker, today announced its ambition that from 2025, at least 25 percent of the plastics used in every newly launched...
Forms in Nature a 3D Printed Chandelier
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A year and a half ago, we told you about Forms in Nature, a stunning light sculpture by Hilden & Diaz (Thyra Hilden and Pio Diaz) that casts...
Collaboration yields discovery of 12-sided silica cages
What do you call a materials science discovery that was given a major boost by a lecture from a Nobel laureate in chemistry, used...
Making new layered superconductors
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created new superconductors made of layers of bismuth sulfide (BiS2) and a high-entropy rare earth alloy oxyfluoride, containing...
Polypropylene robots utilize humidity gradient to generate signals
A team of researchers at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, has developed a type of soft robot that can...
TSMC stacked wafer tech double the power of Nvidia and AMD...
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, better known as TSMC, is holding its 24th annual Technology Symposium in Santa Clara right now, and it’s just unveiled a process...