3D printers are revolutionizing manufacturing by allowing users to create any physical shape they can imagine on-demand. However, most commercial printers are only able…
By combining math with 3D printing, researchers from Boston University have created a new material that seemingly defies logic: Light and air have no trouble…
Newly developed edible organic coating solution increases the shelf life of fruits and vegetables, keeping them fresh and flavorful. A Santa Barbara-based startup called…
MIT engineers have created soft, magnetic 3-D-printed structures that can transform their shape almost instantaneously by the wave of a magnet. The structures are…
Physicist Aaswath Raman details the technology he's developing to harness "night-sky cooling" -- a natural phenomenon where infrared light escapes earth and heads to…
A new 3D printed material is making a move. Scientists have embedded tiny particles of magnetic iron into a silicon rubber to create a…
Graphene is hailed as a wonder material by scientists, but what could it actually be used for? CNET takes a look.
Researchers have developed a new kind of semitransparent polymer called TUEG3 (poly[thioureas] and ethylene glycol), that maintains both rigidity and healing properties, without requiring any…
The class of compounds called perovskites have a particular crystalline structure and a growing body of evidence suggests that perovskite materials could change the face…
When engineers want to make an object weigh less, they literally cut corners. Using a tool called topology optimization, they enlist computers to snip as…
Branch Technology is developing a 3-D printing process that can build structures on Mars. Step into their Tennessee workspace in this 360-degree video by The…
Science Magazine shows us how an international team of scientists made the new material, called “twistron harvesters,” by tying a carbon nanotube string into a…
Superglue is great for fixing all kinds of stuff, but even the most fast-acting powerful superglues are unable to fuse some kinds of surfaces together.…
The shells of marine organisms are though, but one type of shell stands out above all the others in its toughness: the conch. Researchers at…
Imagine a future in which every home has an appliance that pulls all the water the household needs out of the air, even in dry…
3D printers normally print using polymers, but glass has all sorts of advantages. Now researchers have found a way to 3D print with glass, with…
Researchers at MIT have developed a coating that could stop the buildup of hydrate ices that slow or block oil and gas flow. These hydrates…
A team of MIT engineers has successfully designed a new 3-D material with five percent the density of steel and ten times the strength, making…
As elaborated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, heat is a powerful force that can affect a material in many ways. Almost all solid materials…
What do you get when you combine the strongest materials from the plant world with the most elastic ones from the insect kingdom? Super-performing materials…
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