It's often claimed that 3-D printing – known in the trade as "additive manufacturing" – will change the way we live. Most recently, a team from Eindhoven University of Technology announced plans to build the "world's ...
Engineering
Jun 20, 2018
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Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have invented a new way to synthesize DNA that promises to be easier and faster, does not require the use of toxic chemicals ...
Biotechnology
Jun 18, 2018
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Enzymes found in nature can break down certain plastics, but not well enough to support industrial recycling and stem the scourge of plastic waste. Building on what nature has provided, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic ...
Biochemistry
Jun 13, 2018
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What's better than platinum?
Materials Science
May 31, 2018
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Scientists from the University of British Columbia have taken a crucial step towards starving out tuberculosis, following research into how the infection grows in the body.
Biochemistry
May 31, 2018
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The question of the origin of life remains one of the oldest unanswered scientific questions. A team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now shown for the first time that phase separation is an extremely efficient ...
Biochemistry
May 24, 2018
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The Standard Model. What dull name for the most accurate scientific theory known to human beings.
General Physics
May 23, 2018
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What makes kevlar stop a bullet, at the atomic level?
Materials Science
May 17, 2018
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In a laboratory experiment that mimics astrophysical conditions, with cryogenic temperatures in an ultrahigh vacuum, scientists used an electron gun to irradiate thin sheets of ice covered in basic molecules of methane, ammonia ...
Materials Science
Apr 25, 2018
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Bacterial cellulose (BC) nanofibers are promising building blocks for the development of sustainable materials with the potential to outperform conventional synthetic materials. BC, one of the purest forms of nanocellulose, ...
Materials Science
Mar 26, 2018
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