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Supercapacitor uses no conductive carbon
Energy storage devices called supercapacitors have become a hot area of research, in part because they can be…
Getting two-dimensional materials under control
Methods to control defects in two-dimensional materials, such as graphene, that may lead to improved membranes for…
Metamaterials go towards the light
Researchers have designed a device that uses light to manipulate its mechanical properties. The device, which was…
‘Supramolecule’ could reduce nuclear, agricultural waste
Indiana University researchers have reported the first definitive evidence for a new molecular structure with…
Student creates interactive Pac-Man game with microorganisms
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An easily assembled smartphone microscope provides new ways of…
Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Use your brain
New research, led by the University of Southampton, has demonstrated that a nanoscale device, called a memristor,…
ABRACADABRA: Dark matter might come to light
MIT physicists are proposing a new experiment to detect a dark matter particle called the axion. If successful, the…
Could you swallow your surgeon whole?
The 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir Fraser Stoddart and Bernard…
Manufacturing technique yields particle uniformity
In the latest issue of the journal Lab on a Chip, researchers from MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories…
I want to say just one word to you. Just one word…plastics
If the 1967 film "The Graduate" were remade today, Mr. McGuire's famous advice to young Benjamin Braddock would…