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- You’ll never 'be-leaf' what makes up this battery!
- Easier way to make ‘bijels,’ a complex new form of liquid matter
- Completely new kind of polymer could lead to artificial muscles, self-repairing materials
- Enormous blades could lead to more offshore energy in US
- Octopuses shed their asocial reputation
- Bringing time and space together for universal symmetry
- Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station
- Designing a pop-up future
| You’ll never 'be-leaf' what makes up this battery! Posted: 28 Jan 2016 01:00 PM PST Scientists have a new recipe for batteries: Bake a leaf, and add sodium. They used a carbonized oak leaf, pumped full of sodium, as a demonstration battery's negative terminal, or anode, according to a paper published yesterday in the journal ACS Applied Materials Interfaces. |
| Easier way to make ‘bijels,’ a complex new form of liquid matter Posted: 28 Jan 2016 01:00 PM PST Getting the interfaces between the two liquids into different shapes unlocks new kinds of behaviors and applications. And thanks to new research, one special kind of emulsion is becoming easier to make. |
| Completely new kind of polymer could lead to artificial muscles, self-repairing materials Posted: 28 Jan 2016 12:48 PM PST Imagine a polymer with removable parts that can deliver something to the environment and then be chemically regenerated to function again. Or a polymer that can contract and expand the way muscles do. These functions require polymers with both rigid and soft nano-sized compartments with extremely different properties. Researchers have developed a hybrid polymer of this type that might one day be used in artificial muscles; for delivery of drugs or biomolecules; in self-repairing materials; and for replaceable energy sources. |
| Enormous blades could lead to more offshore energy in US Posted: 28 Jan 2016 10:32 AM PST A new design for gigantic blades longer than two football fields could help bring offshore 50-megawatt (MW) wind turbines to the United States and the world. |
| Octopuses shed their asocial reputation Posted: 28 Jan 2016 10:09 AM PST Octopuses have generally been viewed as solitary creatures -- and their color-changing abilities primarily as a means to hide from hungry predators. But, after binge watching more than 52 hours of octopus TV, researchers report that they have found that octopuses actually do have a social life. And it's not without drama. |
| Bringing time and space together for universal symmetry Posted: 28 Jan 2016 09:20 AM PST New research is broadening perspectives on time and space. Scientists challenge the long-held presumption that time evolution -- the incessant unfolding of the universe over time -- is an elemental part of Nature. |
| Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station Posted: 28 Jan 2016 08:38 AM PST Scientists have gathered tiny fungi that take shelter in Antarctic rocks and sent them to the International Space Station. After 18 months on board in conditions similar to those on Mars, more than 60 percent of their cells remained intact, with stable DNA. The results provide new information for the search for life on the red planet. Lichens from the Sierra de Gredos (Spain) and the Alps (Austria) also traveled into space for the same experiment. |
| Posted: 26 Jan 2016 02:50 PM PST What if you could make any object out of a flat sheet of paper? That future is on the horizon thanks to new research. A team of researchers have characterized a fundamental origami fold, or tessellation, that could be used as a building block to create almost any three-dimensional shape, from nanostructures to buildings. |
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