3D-Printed Polymer Photodetectors on Curved Surface a “Bionic Eye”

A University of Minnesota research team has 3D-printed an array of light receptors on a hemispherical surface, in a first step toward creating a...

Certain polyethylene-lined hips may last longer than others

Researchers in New Zealand found that artificial hip liners made of highly-cross-linked polyethylene showed less wear 10 years after implantation than liners made of...

Lego Wants to Completely Remake Its Toy Bricks (Without Anyone Noticing)

At the heart of this town lies a building that is a veritable temple to the area’s most famous creation, the humble Lego brick....

Airlines’ DIY Option: Make Your Own Parts

Owner-operator-produced parts are almost a DIY approach for airlines to get quality parts faster and cheaper. As airlines grapple with parts availability and costs, some...

Chemistry and Lasers Turn Any Plastic Surface Into a PCB

On the face of it, PCB production seems to pretty much have been reduced to practice. Hobbyists have been etching their own boards forever,...

Flight to the Future…to the world of Plastics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dIo0J-DMOY Starring Noel "Lois Lane" Neill as an Airline Stewardess! Also, the ever durable Lyle Talbot, who was in everything from "Ozzie & Harriet" to...

Chip makers are slowing down on the way to 7nm

Development costs are becoming a problem for some Building even smaller transistors have gotten too expensive for the majority of design firms in the near term....

Stretchy wires for the future

Scientists at Duke Chemistry, NC State Engineering and the University of California – San Diego have teamed up to create stretchable, flexible wires that...

First Carbon-Nanotube Mixed-Signal ICs

RRAM 3D integration and a self-healing technique remove metallic nanotubes that poison analog circuits All the amazing carbon-nanotube logic circuits we’ve heard about over the...

Predicting the magnetic properties of materials

Permanent magnets used in electric cars and wind turbines currently contain rare earth metals. Reducing the amount of these elements in magnets is important,...