This discovery opens the door to a great deal of applications Controlling and modifying at will the transparency, electrical properties, and stiffness of a gel – such are the promises of a n... Read more
Researchers in Japan have developed a technique which allows them to control and target drug delivery to specific sites of the body at specific times, thus reducing side effects and improvin... Read more
Biocompatible material created at Harvard is much tougher than cartilage A team of experts in mechanics, materials science, and tissue engineering at Harvard have created an extremely stretc... Read more
“remarkable electronic properties” The Jell-O-like material, from the labs of Stanford professors Yi Cui and Zhenan Bao, may have applications in areas as widespread as energy st... Read more
A holy grail in robotics Sooner than later, robots may have the ability to “feel.” In a paper published online March 26 in Advanced Functional Materials, a team of researchers fr... Read more
It could be approved for use within just a few years. Third-degree burns typically require very complex treatment, and leave nasty scars once they’ve healed. Researchers at John... Read more
While some inventions originating in Japan can seem a little quirky by Western standards, many of those are at the same time rather innovative. This is certainly the case with the cooling fo... Read more