Wooden flooring that generates electricity.
The Guardian reports on Swiss scientists who have taken ordinary wood floor planks, coated them with silicon and embedded nanocrystals, and then stepped on them […]
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Tiny robots stitch nerves together
Science News has a report on nanoneurosurgery, using super-small, magnetically controlled machines to encourage separated neuron fibers to make new connections: Engineers Eunhee Kim and […]
Quantum engine gives more power than a standard engine, for the first time.
Science News has more on the very tiny engine that could: The device is a type of engine called a heat engine. Traditional heat engines […]
A teeny, tiny NASCAR.
Nature is gearing up for small engines going… well, pretty fast for their size. Because these chemists are racing single-molecule nanocars: Six teams from three […]
SONG: Levitating Diamonds (Tiny Impossible Things)
SONG: “Levitating Diamonds (Tiny Impossible Things)”. [Download] ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Based on “Lasers used to levitate glowing nanodiamonds in a vacuum”, Science Daily, 7 Sep 2015, […]
A laser levitating glowing nanodiamonds in a vacuum.
Science Daily might not be as into the poetry of that phrase as I am. They’re more into what it means make a diamond that […]
Let’s take a moment to consider the phrase “injectable brain implant.” Because it exists.
Nature describes (and even has photos of) an electronic mesh that can be rolled up and squirted out of a syringe into a mouse brain […]
Insects in tiny space suits. Real ones. In a vacuum.
Can’t beat NBC’s headline for this: Insects Wear Tiny Spacesuits, for Science: Scanning electron microscopes (SEM) provide incredibly detailed images of biological specimens, but the […]
Bendy ceramics.
Science Daily explores the weird, microscopic world of making ceramics that can bend and twist and smush and reform: Caltech materials scientist Julia Greer and […]
Home-baked carbon crystals – graphene made to order.
Nature is sharing a fun little recipe for whipping up the super-material graphene in a kitchen blender: In Nature Materials, a team led by [Jonathan] […]
Latest graphene surprise: a better conductor than expected.
Or: “Weird substance gets weirder.” Nature has more on how the latest tests have thrown models of how carbon circuits are supposed to work into […]
Waterproof? *METAL* proof.
Remember the superhero fashion designer in The Incredibles? Nature unfolds the true story of a “super-material” that repels liquids so well, it resists molten metal: […]
3D smartphone display, no glasses required.
We’re getting closer to having hologram projectors in our pockets, as befits people living in the future. PhysOrg reports on the latest step – a […]
Tiny diamonds zap cancer.
PhysOrg has the brilliant news about using itty bitty flecks of precious stones to boost the power of medication to treat exceptionally stubborn cases of […]
Science Art: Fulleride Cs3C60 by Dmitri Zaitsev and Joffe Ilya Naftolevich
This is a buckyball crystal, a form of carbon that no one had ever seen until the 1980s. Now, it’s starting to get used in […]