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How to grow your own smart materials with live fermentation cultures
Added: 12 Jan 2021
Have you ever made your own soda bread or homemade yoghurt using a fermented 'starter culture'? Ima…
Nanoparticle drug-delivery system developed to treat brain disorders
Added: 6 Jan 2021
A team of bioengineers has proven a novel system of nanoparticles can successfully carry three time…
Graphene researchers throw physics out the window
Added: 16 Nov 2020
A Manchester University graphene research team has just thrown the physics textbook out of the prov…
A step towards an environmentally friendly Lithium ion battery
Added: 13 Nov 2020
We all love the idea of an electric car and Elon Musk's Tesla is almost accessible to even a poorly…
Self-watering soil could transform farming
Added: 9 Nov 2020
They say water is set to become more valuable than oil, with water scarcity becoming one of the mos…
Malaria test as simple as a bandage
Added: 5 Nov 2020
Testing for malaria could become as simple as putting on a bandage. That's the idea behind a platfo…
Multishot lens-free imaging could aid disease diagnosis
Added: 24 Sep 2020
A new type of imaging that does not require a lens and uses reconfigurable particle-based masks to …
Single-step 3D printing multimaterial microstructures
Added: 17 Sep 2020
Researchers have developed an automated 3D printing method that can produce multicolour 3D microstr…
Plant-based supercapacitor delivers 900 x energy efficiency
Added: 11 Sep 2020
In a new study, researchers at Texas A&M University have described their novel plant-based energy s…
Environmentally friendly silicon recycling
Added: 10 Sep 2020
Skoltech scientists and their colleagues from Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) have develope…
Fungus leather: new front-runner for sustainable clothing material
Added: 9 Sep 2020
In a new review paper by the University of Vienna, Imperial College London, and RMIT University in …
Reimagining the face mask: a design upgrade
Added: 4 Sep 2020
Imagine a reusable face mask that protects wearers and those around them from SARS-CoV-2, is comfor…
Coronavirus 'trap and zap' technology
Added: 24 Aug 2020
Rice University researchers plan to reconfigure their 'trap and zap' wastewater-treatment technolog…
Converting self-sterilising water filtration technologies for COVID-19 protection
Added: 24 Aug 2020
With the worldwide focus on coronavirus prevention and transmission, a new type of air-filter that …
Improved cybernetics hardware - human interfacing
Added: 17 Aug 2020
Although true 'cyborgs' -- part human, part robotic beings -- are science fiction, researchers are …
New international carbon dating standard
Added: 13 Aug 2020
Radiocarbon dating is set to become more accurate than ever after an international team of scientis…
Hydrogel paves way for biomedical breakthrough
Added: 4 Aug 2020
A University of Sydney team of biomedical engineers has developed a plasma technology to robustly a…
Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission launched
Added: 31 Jul 2020
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission is on its way to the Red Planet to search for signs of …
Graphene pizza: It is all about the toppings
Added: 28 Jul 2020
Graphene consists of a single layer of carbon atoms. Exceptional electronic, thermal, mechanical an…
Affordable carbon-loving materials for reduced industrial emissions
Added: 28 Jul 2020
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tenne…
