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Polymers Aug 9, 2022

3D printing of short-carbon-fiber-reinforced thermoset polymer composites

The 27-second video plays on a loop and it's mesmerizing to watch: Carbon fiber material pouring out of a 3D printer and slowly swirling and stacking like soft-serve ice cream.

Space Exploration Aug 8, 2022

100 days of the Minerva mission

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti was launched to the International Space Station on 27 April as a part of Crew-4 for her second mission, Minerva. One hundred days in, mission Minerva is still going strong. From completing ...

Nanomaterials Jul 27, 2022

Artificial skin sweats on command

Following the breakthrough with their first sweating artificial skin two years ago, Danqing Liu's multidisciplinary team hasn't been sitting still. Their goal: an artificial skin that sweats as naturally as possible. They ...

Plants & Animals Jul 25, 2022

'Necrobotic' spiders: Manipulating dead spiders' legs with a puff of air to serve as grabbers

Spiders are amazing. They're useful even when they're dead.

Plants & Animals Jul 18, 2022

Skin: An additional tool for the versatile elephant trunk

A new study from Georgia Institute of Technology suggests that an elephant's muscles aren't the only way it stretches its trunk—its folded skin also plays an important role. The combination of muscle and skin gives the ...

Bio & Medicine Jul 15, 2022

Bacteria-based biohybrid microrobots on a mission to one day battle cancer

A team of scientists in the Âé¶¹ÒùÔºical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have combined robotics with biology by equipping E. coli bacteria with artificial components to construct biohybrid ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Jul 13, 2022

Starfish embryos swim in formation like a 'living crystal,' could inform the design of self-assembling robotic swarms

In its earliest stages, long before it sprouts its signature appendages, a starfish embryo resembles a tiny bead, spinning through the water like a miniature ball bearing.

Space Exploration Jul 12, 2022

China is considering a nuclear-powered mission to Neptune

One look at the Planetary Decadal Survey for 2023–2032, and you will see some bold and cutting-edge mission proposals for the coming decade. Examples include a Uranus orbiter and probe (UOP) that would study Uranus' interior, ...

Space Exploration Jul 12, 2022

A swarm of swimming robots to search for life under the ice on Europa

When Galileo pointed his telescope at Jupiter 400 years ago, he saw three blobs of light around the giant planet, which he at first thought were fixed stars. He kept looking, and eventually, he spotted a fourth blob and noticed ...

Materials Science Jul 7, 2022

Scientists develop durable material for flexible artificial muscles

UCLA materials scientists and colleagues at the nonprofit scientific research institute SRI International have developed a new material and manufacturing process for creating artificial muscles that are stronger and more ...

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