麻豆淫院 - latest science and technology news stories / en-us 麻豆淫院 internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: 麻豆淫院ics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Magnetic microrobot mechanically mixes microscopic materials Chemistry often conjures images of mixing fluids together in beakers, flasks, or test tubes. But often, chemistry happens on a much smaller scale. In many medical and industrial contexts, mixing fluids involves fractions of a milliliter, and for these applications, sometimes the best tool is a microscopic robot. /news/2025-06-magnetic-microrobot-mechanically-microscopic-materials.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Tue, 10 Jun 2025 11:00:01 EDT news668679065 Redefining physics to roll a ball vertically Researchers from the University of Waterloo have achieved a feat previously thought to be impossible鈥攇etting a sphere to roll down a totally vertical surface without applying any external force. /news/2025-06-redefining-physics-ball-vertically.html General 麻豆淫院ics Soft Matter Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:11:03 EDT news668092261 Origami structures unfold into seamless surfaces for deployable applications A study published in Nature Communications presents a way to create deployable structures that transform from compact folded states into expansive configurations with perfectly smooth surfaces. /news/2025-05-origami-unfold-seamless-surfaces-deployable.html General 麻豆淫院ics Fri, 30 May 2025 06:50:01 EDT news667732062 Improved rubber processing makes material ten times stronger and resistant to cracking Throughout its nearly 100-year manufacturing history, the crack resistance of natural rubber鈥攐ne of the world's most widely used biomaterials鈥攈asn't improved much. Until now. Materials researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have devised a way to produce natural rubber that retains its key properties of stretchiness and durability while greatly improving its ability to resist cracking, even after repeated cycles of use. /news/2025-05-rubber-material-ten-stronger-resistant.html Polymers Thu, 22 May 2025 13:11:41 EDT news667138295 Pneumatic soft robot mimics self rotating action of fruit fly larvae Soft-bodied robots are unlocking a new era of adaptive machines that can safely interact with the human body, squeeze through tight spaces, and propel themselves autonomously. /news/2025-05-pneumatic-soft-robot-mimics-rotating.html Biotechnology Thu, 22 May 2025 09:51:05 EDT news667126258 Astrobee learns to transport soft cargo: Open-source simulator models real ISS challenges Astrobee is a free-flying robotic system developed by NASA that is made up of three distinct cube-shaped robots. This system was originally designed to help astronauts who are working at the International Space Station (ISS) by automating some of their routine manual tasks. /news/2025-05-astrobee-soft-cargo-source-simulator.html Space Exploration Mon, 19 May 2025 08:00:01 EDT news666624973 Ultrasound unlocks a safer, greener way to make hydrogels Researchers at McGill University, in collaboration with Polytechnique Montr茅al, pioneered a new way to create hydrogels using ultrasound, eliminating the need for toxic chemical initiators. This breakthrough offers a faster, cleaner and more sustainable approach to hydrogel fabrication, and produces hydrogels that are stronger, more flexible and highly resistant to freezing and dehydration. /news/2025-05-ultrasound-safer-greener-hydrogels.html Polymers Materials Science Thu, 08 May 2025 13:20:07 EDT news665928650 Programmable double-network gels: Interspecies interactions dictate structure, resilience and adaptability A new study uncovers how fine-tuning the interactions between two distinct network-forming species within a soft gel enables programmable control over its structure and mechanical properties. The findings reveal a powerful framework for engineering next-generation soft materials with customizable behaviors, inspired by the complexity of biological tissues. /news/2025-05-programmable-network-gels-interspecies-interactions.html Soft Matter Tue, 06 May 2025 16:56:02 EDT news665769361 Bite-sized chunks of chicken with the texture of whole meat can be grown in the lab A bioreactor that mimics a circulatory system can deliver nutrients and oxygen to artificial tissue, enabling the production of over 10 grams of chicken muscle for cultured meat applications. These results are published in Trends in Biotechnology. /news/2025-04-sized-chunks-chicken-texture-meat.html Biotechnology Agriculture Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:00:01 EDT news663924601 Polymers with flawed fillers boost heat transfer in plastics, study reveals In the quest to design the next generation of materials for modern devices鈥攐nes that are lightweight, flexible and excellent at dissipating heat鈥攁 team of researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst made a discovery: imperfection has its upsides. /news/2025-04-polymers-flawed-fillers-boost-plastics.html Polymers Analytical Chemistry Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:39:04 EDT news662985541 Collective synchronized magnetic oscillations enable micropillar arrays to manipulate fluids and act as soft robots Researchers from Hanyang University have developed an innovative micropillar array capable of collective and rapid magnetic oscillations, demonstrating strong potential for advanced applications in robotics, fluid transport, and dynamic surface control. /news/2025-04-synchronized-magnetic-oscillations-enable-micropillar.html Nanomaterials Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:07:04 EDT news662814421 How physical forces shape plants from the inside out to generate their complex 3D shapes Plants don't just grow, they build. From towering trees to delicate flowers, complex plant shapes are sculpted with remarkable precision. Now a study by biologists and biophysicists at Universit茅 de Montr茅al reveals how plants build their organs in three dimensions. /news/2025-04-physical-generate-complex-3d.html Plants & Animals Molecular & Computational biology Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:10:12 EDT news662746201 3D printing method creates color-changing materials for smart textiles In a leap forward for materials science, a multi-institutional team of researchers has developed a pioneering method of 3D printing cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers (CLCEs), enabling complex, color-changing responsive materials and paving the way for novel applications like smart textiles and advanced robotics. /news/2025-03-3d-method-materials-smart-textiles.html Materials Science Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:53:04 EDT news662651581 Scientists uncover how microswimmers move faster in groups, paving way for tiny drug-delivering robots Scientists have revealed how tiny swimming cells鈥攕uch as sperm and bacteria鈥攁re able to move faster when traveling as a group, and the research could accelerate the development of microscopic robots that deliver drugs to specific regions of the body. /news/2025-03-scientists-uncover-microswimmers-faster-groups.html Bio & Medicine Nanophysics Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:43:04 EDT news662380981 A new law gives the energy needed to fracture stretchable networks Interconnected materials containing networks are ubiquitous in the world around us鈥攔ubber, car tires, human and engineered tissues, woven sheets and chain mail armor. Engineers often want these networks to be as strong as possible and to resist mechanical fracture and failure. /news/2025-03-law-energy-fracture-stretchable-networks.html General 麻豆淫院ics Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:34:57 EDT news661426491 Microscopic robots that swim towards chemical signals offer precise drug delivery solutions Imagine microscopic robots that can navigate the body, delivering medicine precisely to damaged tissues while avoiding side effects. Engineers at the University of Hawaii at M膩noa have discovered a new breakthrough that brings this vision closer to reality. /news/2025-01-microscopic-robots-chemical-precise-drug.html Bio & Medicine Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:33:03 EST news655986781 Stretchable, flexible, recyclable: 3D printing method creates fantastic plastic Princeton engineers have developed an easily scalable 3D printing technique to manufacture soft plastics with programmed stretchiness and flexibility that are also recyclable and inexpensive鈥攓ualities not typically combined in commercially manufactured materials. /news/2024-12-stretchable-flexible-recyclable-3d-method.html Polymers Materials Science Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:18:31 EST news653321905 New moves for self defense鈥攈ow plants can inspire future soft robotic design For plants, cleaning the air, providing food and medicines, and preserving our ecosystem is just another day's work. In the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, however, plants are being studied in new ways to inspire future biohybrid soft robotic designs. /news/2024-08-defense-future-soft-robotic.html Biotechnology Thu, 29 Aug 2024 13:08:59 EDT news644155736 Soft, stretchy electrode simulates touch sensations using electrical signals A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego has developed a soft, stretchy electronic device capable of simulating the feeling of pressure or vibration when worn on the skin. This device, reported in a paper published in Science Robotics, represents a step towards creating haptic technologies that can reproduce a more varied and realistic range of touch sensations. /news/2024-06-soft-stretchy-electrode-simulates-sensations.html Nanomaterials Fri, 28 Jun 2024 11:28:20 EDT news638792874 麻豆淫院icists propose path to faster, more flexible robots In a May 15 paper released in the journal 麻豆淫院ical Review Letters, Virginia Tech physicists revealed a microscopic phenomenon that could greatly improve the performance of soft devices, such as agile flexible robots or microscopic capsules for drug delivery. /news/2024-05-physicists-path-faster-flexible-robots.html Condensed Matter Sat, 18 May 2024 02:25:37 EDT news635217931 Biohybrid robot made from flour and oats could act as a biodegradable vector for reforestation Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) in collaboration with the University of Freiburg have developed a biohybrid robot, which consists of a flour-based capsule created using 3D microfabrication techniques, and two natural appendages from oat fruit capable of moving in response to air humidity. /news/2024-05-biohybrid-robot-flour-oats-biodegradable.html Ecology Biotechnology Mon, 13 May 2024 12:53:28 EDT news634823606 New tagging method provides bioadhesive interface for marine sensors on diverse, soft and fragile species Tagging marine animals with sensors to track and study their movements can provide researchers with important environmental and behavioral information, including energy usage, habitat changes, and migration patterns. But existing techniques to attach sensors currently largely rely on invasive physical anchors, suction cups, and rigid glues. While these techniques can be effective for marine animals with hard exoskeletons and large animals such as sharks, the traditional tag attachment methods are not ideal for more fragile species, such as squid and jellyfish. /news/2024-04-tagging-method-bioadhesive-interface-marine.html Ecology Biotechnology Tue, 16 Apr 2024 11:40:04 EDT news632486401 Researchers develop hedgehog safety test for robotic lawnmowers Researchers led by the University of Oxford have developed a new test to assess how dangerous robotic lawnmowers are to hedgehogs. They hope this will lead to a certification scheme that will allow consumers to choose 'hedgehog-friendly' mowers to help protect these lovable mammals. /news/2024-01-hedgehog-safety-robotic-lawnmowers.html Plants & Animals Biotechnology Tue, 16 Jan 2024 11:05:54 EST news624625549 Optimization of hard鈥搒oft material interfaces: A 3D printed imitation of bone鈥搕endon connections Most people can relate to having a laptop charger break right where the flexible cable meets the solid adapter. This is just one example of how difficult it is to effectively interface hard and soft materials. Using a unique 3D printing process, TU Delft researchers produced hybrid multi-material interfaces that reached a remarkable closeness to nature's design of bone鈥搕endon connections. Their research findings, recently published in Nature Communications, have numerous potential applications. /news/2023-12-optimization-hardsoft-material-interfaces-3d.html Polymers Materials Science Tue, 12 Dec 2023 10:59:42 EST news621601180 The first eco-friendly fluorescent artificial seed for monitoring soil temperature by using drones Researchers have invented a new kind of artificial seed to sense environmental parameters without impacting the health of the environment. /news/2023-11-eco-friendly-fluorescent-artificial-seed-soil.html Biotechnology Agriculture Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:11:29 EST news619809085 Paleobionics: A 450 million-year-old organism finds new life in softbotics Researchers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with paleontologists from Spain and Poland, have used fossil evidence to engineer a soft robotic replica of pleurocystitid, a marine organism that existed nearly 450 million years ago and is believed to be one of the first echinoderms capable of movement using a muscular stem. /news/2023-11-paleobionics-million-year-old-life-softbotics.html Biotechnology Paleontology & Fossils Mon, 06 Nov 2023 15:41:54 EST news618507705 A new formula to calculate the strength of thin conical structures Conical structures can have advantageous applications in a variety of fields, ranging from robotics to civil engineering. Studies have found that conical shells made of liquid crystal elastomer films can be effective lifters; devices that can generate thrust for robots and other vehicles. /news/2023-10-formula-strength-thin-conical.html General 麻豆淫院ics Soft Matter Wed, 25 Oct 2023 10:20:02 EDT news617447451 Scientists demonstrate the transport of light cargo using tethered and untethered soft robots made from hydrogels A team of University of Waterloo researchers has created smart, advanced materials that will be the building blocks for a future generation of soft medical microrobots. They published their results in Nature Communications. /news/2023-10-scientists-cargo-tethered-untethered-soft.html Nanomaterials Mon, 23 Oct 2023 07:43:00 EDT news617265771 Soft, living materials made with algae glow under stress A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego has developed soft yet durable materials that glow in response to mechanical stress, such as compression, stretching or twisting. The materials derive their luminescence from single-celled algae known as dinoflagellates. /news/2023-10-soft-materials-algae-stress.html Biochemistry Materials Science Fri, 20 Oct 2023 14:16:34 EDT news617030189 How origami might inform disease diagnoses Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering looked to origami to create new sensors that could someday be employed to detect deformations in organs and also for use in wearables and soft robotics. /news/2023-08-origami-disease.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Fri, 25 Aug 2023 14:00:01 EDT news612172101