Graphical abstract. Credit: Acta Materialia (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2023.119632 When Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. candidate William Frieden Templeton intended to take a…
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers and their collaborators have created a new responsive material called a liquid crystal elastomer, made…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new glass-ceramic composite shows great promise for the safer storage of nuclear waste. “Simply put,…
Rendering of pleurocystitid (left) next to the soft robot they modeled after the ancient sea creature. Credit: Richard Desatnik. Soft…
Gallium oxide crystals are produced in Japan with a 20 kW diode laser using the high-power optical system of the…
The top map shows the total duration of power outages over eight storms by county. The lower map is a…
University of Washington researchers introduced the Thermal Earring, a wireless wearable that continuously monitors a user’s earlobe temperature. Credit: Raymond…
Diagram of the model predictive control. Credit: Journal of Physics: Conference Series (2023). DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2654/1/012099 A new system to heat…
In laboratory tests, a new design for padding, right, outperformed more conventional technologies like a foam, left, made out of…
As an example of more complex control systems, the research team has also developed an electronics-free drinks dispenser. Credit: Falk…