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What really happens in donut shaped droplets?
Many people find themselves getting ever so annoyed with the drip, drip, drip of a leaking faucet.
Sustainable ceramics wave goodbye to the kiln
Normally requiring a great deal of heat to manufacture cement, bricks, bathroom tiles and porcelain crockery, a…
Plastic recycling revolutionized by polymer additive
When Geoffrey Coates, the Tisch University Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, gives a talk about plastics…
Scientists Explain How Graphite Turns Into Diamond
Researchers have finally answered a question that has eluded scientists for years: when exposed to moderately high…
Metamaterial Achieves Performance Predicted By Theoretical Bounds
In 2015 Jonathan Berger, UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineer and materials scientist, developed an idea that could…
Mission Impossible Self-Destructing Gadgets Not So Impossible
A new self-destruct mechanism can destroy electronics within 10 seconds through wireless commands or the triggering…
Single Flexible Fiber Delivers Signals In The Brain
A single flexible fiber no bigger than a human hair has successfully delivered a combination of optical,…
‘Wonder’ materials to revolutionize flexible tech
Following a breakthrough in measuring two-dimensional 'wonder' materials by the University of Warwick, gadgets are…
Bandages Light Up When In Contact With Certain Chemicals
A new 'living material'—a tough, stretchy, biocompatible sheet of hydrogel injected with live cells that are…
Laser Efficiency Boosted By ‘Lossless’ Metamaterial
A material that could reduce signal losses in photonic devices has been developed by engineers at the University of…