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Kitchen work tops and mirrors that effectively clean themselves could become reality thanks a new range of “smart” materials, according to scientists.

Technique may enable robotic animals that move with the strength and flexibility of their living counterparts. Many robotic designs take nature as their muse: sticking to walls like geckos, swimming through water like tuna, sprinting across terrain like cheetahs. Such designs borrow properties from nature, using engineered materials and hardware to mimic animals’ behavior. Now,

Biologists at the University of York have taken an important step in making it possible to clean millions of hectares of land contaminated by explosives. A team from the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP) in the University’s Department of Biology has unravelled the mechanism of TNT toxicity in plants raising the possibility of a

Could be applied to solar cells, ultracapacitors for energy storage, or advanced transistors for energy efficient electronics, among many other applications Researchers at Penn State’s Center for 2-Dimensional and Layered Materials and the University of Texas at Dallas have shown the ability to grow high quality, single-layer materials one on top of the other using

“With precision strike accuracy, the Shadow Hawk is an ideal solution in urban environments where low collateral damage is essential.” Lockheed Martin’s new Shadow Hawk weapon is deceptively small considering the influence it will likely have on warfare from this point forward. The era of unmanned warfare is about to go to a whole new

Promising drug by UAlberta researchers could save millions of lives. Heart failure patients who are getting by on existing drug therapies can look forward to a far more effective medicine in the next five years or so, thanks to University of Alberta researchers. Heart specialist Gavin Oudit and his research team discovered a molecule—angiotensin converting

A team of scientists from Oxford University has shown how the natural movement of bacteria could be harnessed to assemble and power microscopic ‘windfarms’. The study, published in the journal Science Advances, uses computer simulations to demonstrate that the chaotic swarming effect of dense active matter such as bacteria can be organised to turn cylindrical

The device will be used to treat bloodstream infections that are the leading cause of death in critically ill patients and soldiers injured in combat. The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced today that it was awarded a $9.25 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to further

Do little one-celled plants hold the key to our energy future? How to wean ourselves off fossil fuels? A tough question with a seemingly simple answer: use renewables. But alas, not that simple. As we all know, there are significant technological and economic hurdles. But hurdles are opportunities for the enterprising and the race is