It is a relatively well known fact that diamonds could make for pretty great semiconductors. They are thermally conductive, foregoing the need for bulky cooling, and they can handle high voltages and power…
Chemists at UC San Diego have created an “adaptive protein crystal” with a counterintuitive and potentially useful property: When stretched in one direction, the material thickens in the perpendicular direction, rather than thinning as familiar materials do…
Nowadays, wearable devices are everyday and mostly hard to get excited about, as useful as they are beyond their vanity features. Once in a while, however, a potential game-changer comes in with a proof of concept that makes an impression…
Glue with completely adjustable strength and viscosity? Immensely more useful than you might imagine. This novel adhesive pretty much erases the various issues that come up in manufacturing and repair: damp environments, vibrating surfaces, and materials with properties anywhere between…
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It would not be an understatement to say that Internet of Things is gigantic, and growing even bigger every single day. Juniper Research states that there have already been 13.4 billion IoT connected devices in the year 2015, and a 285% growth is predicted by 2020…
Nanomachines have long been the dream of many scientists and science-fiction fans alike. However, with the latest research into nano-scale engines from the University Cambridge, we may finally be on the cusp of real life, fully functional nano-bots that appear to be extraordinarily efficient and scalable…
By 2050 the world’s urban population is expected to grow by 72%. This
Building materials for energy storing is a lot like baking. It requires the right ingredients in right amounts, and assembly in the correct order and under ideal conditions. And just like an overly sweet cake can benefit from a pinch of salt, the same appears to be true for batteries…
Although visually impressive, the inventions of Nikola Tesla haven’t been used for much aside from entertainment and education for the better part of the last century. This may be about to change, as scientists at Rice University have discovered that the strong force field emitted by a Tesla coil…
