Snake bellies help scientists get a grip
For many of us, the bodies of moving snakes look like little more than wiggly strands of spaghetti.
Plants & Animals
Dec 17, 2015
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News tagged with surface textures
New 'smart database' will enable manufacturers to achieve efficiency gains by unravelling 100s of ISO standards
A huge expansion in the quantity and complexity of international standards is an increasingly serious issue in fields such as advanced engineering. Now, a research project headed by a University of Huddersfield professor ...
Software
Sep 8, 2015
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Compact nanoscale textures reduce contact time of bouncing droplets
Many natural surfaces can rapidly shed water droplets due to their water-repellent functionality. In 1945, scientists Cassie and Baxter linked the water-repellent function of natural surfaces to their surface textures. The ...
Disney Research develops method to provide tactile feedback in free air
Depth cameras and other motion-tracking devices allow people to use natural gestures to play computer games, yet the experience remains unnatural because they can't feel what their eyes can see. Disney Research, Pittsburgh, ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jul 19, 2013
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A new wrinkle for cell culture
Using a technique that introduces tiny wrinkles into sheets of graphene, researchers from Brown University have developed new textured surfaces for culturing cells in the lab that better mimic the complex surroundings in ...
Nanomaterials
Apr 23, 2015
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Biodegradable bags can hold a full load of shopping after three years in the environment
Biodegradable and compostable plastic bags are still capable of carrying full loads of shopping after being exposed in the natural environment for three years, a new study shows.
Environment
Apr 29, 2019
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Engineering research produces soft material with controllable surface textures that can be varied by squeezing
An MIT team has developed a way of making soft materials, using a 3-D printer, with surface textures that can then be modified at will to be perfectly smooth, or ridged or bumpy, or even to have complex patterns that could ...
Materials Science
Jun 11, 2015
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Image: Sentinel-1 captures Tobago oil spill
Before and after satellite images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission show the scale of the oil spill that occurred off the shores of Trinidad and Tobago's coastline earlier this week. The ship, identified as The Gulfstream, ...
Environment
Feb 16, 2024
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Research could improve laser-manufacturing technique
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers have discovered details about the behavior of ultrafast laser pulses that may lead to new applications in manufacturing, diagnostics and other research.
General Physics
Dec 19, 2011
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Tooth wear sheds light on the feeding habits of ancient elephant relatives
How can we ever know what ancient animals ate? For the first time, the changing diets of elephants in the last two million years in China have been reconstructed, using a technique based on analysis of the surface textures ...
Archaeology
Jul 28, 2016
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