Several footprints believed to be from critically endangered Sumatran rhino have been found on Indonesia's Borneo island, raising hopes for the existence of an animal long thought to be extinct in that area, ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 28, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—An iPhone 5 with a layer of man-made sapphire covering its Gorilla Glass 2 screen has been demoed at the Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona. The purpose was to demonstrate how much more ...

Electronics - Consumer & Gadgets

Mar 01, 2013 3.5 / 5 (11) 4 |

(Phys.org)—Toray Industries has combined its no-scratch, no smudge technologies of 2012 and moved them up a notch with a recent demo at the nano tech 2013 exhibition in Japan. Toray showed off its touchscreen ...

Technology - Hi Tech & Innovation

Feb 01, 2013 3 / 5 (2) 2 |

Anyone who has tried to build a piece of furniture from scratch knows the frustration of painstakingly cutting pieces of wood, only to discover that they won’t fit together because the cutting was not ...

Technology - Engineering

Aug 08, 2012 4.8 / 5 (12) 8 |

These coatings offer protection against rust, scratches and moisture and improve adhesion: Surfaces with a nano coating. A new plasma process enables these coatings to be applied more easily and cost-efficiently ...

Technology - Engineering

May 10, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

A new genre of plastics that mimic the human skin's ability to heal scratches and cuts offers the promise of endowing cell phones, laptops, cars and other products with self-repairing surfaces, scientists reported today. ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Mar 26, 2012 4.9 / 5 (9) 6 |

Nissan today announced the latest piece of must-have kit for the iPhone - a ground-breaking self-healing iPhone case. The Nissan Scratch Shield iPhone case features the brand's pioneering self-healing paint ...

Electronics - Consumer & Gadgets

Jan 17, 2012 3.8 / 5 (5) 0

In the mid-1960s, before any Apollo hardware had flown with a crew, NASA was looking ahead and planning its next major programs. It was a bit of a challenge. After all, how do you top landing a man on the ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Dec 20, 2011 5 / 5 (8) 4

It might not seem like scraping the top of a cold stick of butter with a knife could be a scientific test, but engineers at MIT say the process is very similar to the "scratch test," which is perhaps the oldest ...

Physics - Condensed Matter

May 26, 2011 4 / 5 (3) 0 |

The free, open-source Scratch programming language, developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab by a team led by Mitchel Resnick, has found great popularity around the world as a way ...

Technology - Software

Apr 28, 2010 2.5 / 5 (2) 0

The engineers' dream of self-healing surfaces has taken another step towards becoming reality -- researchers have produced a electroplated layer that contains tiny nanometer-sized capsules. If the layer is ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Aug 03, 2009 5 / 5 (4) 0