Army-funded researchers discover how to make materials capable of self-propulsion, allowing materials to move without motors or hands. Credit: Yongjin Kim, UMass Amherst Army-funded researchers…
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Engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a microneedle patch that can be applied to the skin,…
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This half-meter-long prototype of a niobium-tin superconducting undulator magnet was designed and built by a team from three U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories. The…
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Artist’s representation of a halide perovskite photocathode. Researchers at Rice University and Los Alamos National Laboratory found halide perovskite semiconductors (silver) treated with a thin…
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Proposed hierarchical deformation mechanism paradigm for the equiatomic CrCoNi-based HEAs subjected to increasing degrees of deformation. Elastic deformation, dislocation-mediated plasticity, twinning-induced plasticity, TRIP, and finally…
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The multilateral nature of cybersecurity today makes it markedly different than conventional security, according to a new study co-authored by an MIT professor. New model…
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A collaborative study by a team of materials scientists and theoretical chemists demonstrates how a class of electroluminescent materials, key components of devices such as…
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Miniature robots created from bubbles can manipulate small pieces into interconnected structures. Credit: American Chemical Society Robots are widely used to build cars, paint airplanes…
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Artistic rendering of fast ion permeation inside single-walled carbon nanotubes. Small ions such as potassium, chloride, and sodium permeate through the inner volume of nanometer-wide…
View More Surprisingly Fast Transport in Carbon Nanotube Membranes Could Advance Human Health
ITER fusion reactor tokamak. Credit: ITER A tokamak is a machine that confines a plasma using magnetic fields in a donut shape that scientists call a…
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