Scientists peep deep into a diamond to examine its defects
Researchers take a deep look into a diamond to see how the atoms in its platelet defects are arranged in the hardest natural material...
3D Printer Buying Guide 2018
Since our buying guide last year, a lot has changed in 3D Print-Land. More functional desktop 3D printers have emerged, and a slew of...
UNYQ partners up with IKEA and Area Academy for the gaming community
UNYQ, a frontrunner in medical wearables, is teaming up with IKEA to present a one of a kind prototype that aims at making gaming...
Starch can replace normal plastic in food packaging
Eventually, all petroleum-based material in food packaging will have to be replaced with a bio-based material. Research done at Karlstad University shows that a...
Scientists create the thinnest films of liquid ever made
A team of physicists at the University of Vermont have discovered a fundamentally new way surfaces can get wet. Their study may allow scientists...
Plastics with a built-in self-destruct mechanism
Chemists in search of their Holy Grail: a plastic designed to die
Plastics were designed to last as long as possible, but they’re now blamed...
A new way to mend a broken heart
“Therepi” device attaches directly to the damaged heart, enabling delivery of medicine from a port under a patient’s skin to augment cardiac function.
After a...
New epoxy-based composites to cure underwater
Researchers at Technische Universität Wien (TU-Wien) in Vienna, Austria, have developed a “special formula” that allows epoxy-based composites to cure underwater. The research group, headed...
MOF material exhibits selective capture of toxic atmospheric gas
Led by the University of Manchester, an international team of scientists has developed a metal-organic framework material (MOF) that exhibits a selective, fully reversible...
Physicists create new class of 2-D artificial materials
In 1965, a renowned Princeton University physicist theorized that ferroelectric metals could conduct electricity despite not existing in nature.
For decades, scientists thought it would...
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