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Materials Inspired by Mother Nature Combining the secrets that enable water striders to walk on water and give wood its lightness and great strength has yielded an amazing new material so buoyant that, in everyday terms, a boat made from 1 pound of the substance could carry five kitchen refrigerators, about 1,000 pounds. One of

Wildlife poaching is on the rise in Africa, but the illegal activity could get a little tougher with these flying sentinels. Poachers, be warned: Airware’s drones are coming for you (except for the man who recently acquired a $350,000 permit to hunt an endangered black rhino in Namibia. The drones will probably have to leave him alone).

Scarce metals are found in a wide range of everyday objects around us. They are complicated to extract, difficult to recycle and so rare that several of them have become “conflict minerals” which can promote conflicts and oppression. A survey at Chalmers University of Technology now shows that there are potential technology-based solutions that can

As shown with lab-on-a-chip devices, sound is proving a great way to manipulate small objects

“It will open up an entirely new branch of carbon science” The unique structure of the thin sheet of pure carbon was inspired by pentagonal tile pattern found in the streets of Cairo. Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University and universities in China and Japan have discovered a new structural variant of carbon called “penta-graphene” –

Flexible design enables body-morphing capability Earthworms creep along the ground by alternately squeezing and stretching muscles along the length of their bodies, inching forward with each wave of contractions. Snails and sea cucumbers also use this mechanism, called peristalsis, to get around, and our own gastrointestinal tracts operate by a similar action, squeezing muscles along

A baby girl who was close to dying from cancer has been rescued by a cell therapy envisioned as a “one size fits all” treatment that had never been tested in people, doctors reported on Thursday. The development is significant because it indicates that cell therapies, which represent an exciting new front in the battle

An international research team is developing nanotechnology-based applications of hexanal, a natural plant extract that extends the storage life of harvested fruit. Bananas, mangoes and papayas: these tender tropical fruits are in high demand in export markets and an important livelihood source for producers. But freshness is key because these fruits spoil quickly and damage