The pull-up, an exercise dreaded by most, answers a basic question: are your muscles strong enough to lift your own body weight?
Materials Science
Apr 17, 2018
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Researchers have designed carbon aerogels that can be reversibly stretched to more than three times their original length, displaying elasticity similar to that of a rubber band. By adding reversible stretchability to aerogels' ...
Payments to protect carbon stored in forests must increase to defend against rubber plantations
Environment
Mar 2, 2018
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The concept of "from trash to treasure" holds true for the world of composting, where food waste is recycled into fertilizer for gardens. But what if compost could go beyond fertilizer? Now, one group reports in ACS Omega ...
Materials Science
Feb 21, 2018
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Researchers from Empa have developed a flexible material that generates electricity when stressed. In future, it might be used as a sensor, integrated into clothing or even implanted in the human body, for instance, to power ...
Condensed Matter
Nov 10, 2017
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In the past decades, large areas of forest in Sumatra, Indonesia have been replaced by cash crops like oil palm and rubber plantations. New research, published in the European Geosciences Union journal Biogeosciences, shows ...
Environment
Oct 25, 2017
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Mechanical metamaterials, which exhibit unusual properties such as shape morphing and programmability, have been found to display further surprising features. When the materials are a step in size larger, new rules seem to ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 26, 2017
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41
Imagine a tire that could heal after being punctured or a rubber band that never snapped.
Materials Science
Aug 15, 2017
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28
Goodyear's 1839 discovery of the vulcanization of natural rubber obtained from rubber trees marks the beginning of the modern rubber industry. A variety of synthetic rubber products were subsequently developed. In the journal ...
Materials Science
Jul 10, 2017
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Flexible electronic parts could significantly improve medical implants. However, electroconductive gold atoms do not easily bind to silicones. Researchers from the University of Basel have now modified short-chain silicones ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 14, 2017
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