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The materials that will be game-changers in solar technology, medical applications, defense technologies and nanotechnology.
MIT Makes Steel with Electricity
Boston Metal, an MIT spinout, is ready to commercialize a new steelmaking method that can potentially clean up…
Are There Rare Earth Elements in Coal Mines?
Research at the University of Utah documented elevated concentrations of rare earth elements (REEs) in active mines…
What Fire Ants Can Teach Us
A few years ago I stood on an amazingly picturesque hill in Costa Rica overlooking Lake Arenal. I closed my eyes,…
3D Printing 1,000x Smaller Than a Grain of Sand
Researchers in Sweden have 3D printed silica glass micro-optics on the tips of optic fibers that are as tiny as the…
The Hidden Life of Semiconductor Material
Substrate materials play an essential role in information processing. Using advanced imaging, a research team led…
Watch: This Intelligent Fluid is Smarter than You
Dive into the future of robotics with our latest video on Harvard's revolutionary programmable metafluid.
This…
MIKROE Partners With Allegro MicroSystems To Introduce New Click Boards Targeting…
MikroElektronika (MIKROE), the embedded solutions company that dramatically cuts development time by providing…
U.S. Army Is Working On Yarn-Powered Tech
The U.S. Army is funding fiber arts.
Researchers at North Carolina State are creating yarn-shaped…
Brain-Inspired Wireless System Taps Into Salt-Sized Sensors
Brown University researchers just developed a novel approach for a wireless network that efficiently transmits,…
What Happened To Wyoming’s Lithium?
A ticker-tape parade was the only thing missing when lithium deposits were discovered in southwest Wyoming near…