Parallel alignment of dressing fibers accelerates wound healing
A team of researchers from Singapore has reported the development of a skin-mimicking scaffold by parallelly aligning nanofibers made up of a mixture of polycaprolactone (PCL) and gelatin that enhances wound healing. Their research has recently been.....»»
El Salvador Seeks World Bank Help For Bitcoin Implementation
El Salvador has sought assistance from the World Bank as it implements its move to use bitcoin as a parallel legal tender alongside the U.S. dollar, Finance Minister Alejandro Zelaya said on Wednesday. From a report: Zelaya said the Central American.....»»
How a bath sponge becomes a bio-based industrial filter
Researchers at TU Bergakademie Freiberg developed an innovative material from a cultured marine sponge. When the fibers of the sponge react with a copper-containing ammonia solution, such as that found in the electronics industry, the mineral atacami.....»»
IMF Sees Legal, Economic Issues With El Salvador Bitcoin Move
The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday it has a number of economic and legal concerns regarding the move from El Salvador to make bitcoin a parallel legal tender. Reuters reports: El Salvador has become the first country in the world to ado.....»»
Seagate shows off limited edition Cyberpunk 2077-themed SSD
Cyberpunk hype has wound down significantly after its release disappointed users of last generation consoles and failed to deliver on some of the promises made by developer CDPR. Still, that's not stopping manufacturers from coming up with Cyberpunk-.....»»
Physicists find “definitive evidence” of mechanism behind brightest auroras
A resonant transfer of energy accelerates atmospheric electrons to sufficient energies. Enlarge / Physicists report definitive evidence that auroras that light up the sky in the high latitudes are caused by electrons accelerated by a powerful el.....»»
Electrons in ionosphere catch a plasma wave to produce brightest auroras
A resonant transfer of energy accelerates atmospheric electrons to sufficient energies. Enlarge / Physicists report definitive evidence that auroras that light up the sky in the high latitudes are caused by electrons accelerated by a powerful el.....»»
Sony’s first drone, the Airpeak S1, rockets to 55 mph in just 3.5 seconds
Sony's first drone accelerates to 55mph in a blink-and-you-will-miss-it 3.5s, making it the fastest accelerating drone in the industry. Shame it costs $9,000......»»
Demonstration of quantum communication over optical fibers exceeding 600 km
The Cambridge Research Laboratory of Toshiba Europe today announced the first demonstration of quantum communication over optical fibers exceeding 600 km in length. The breakthrough will enable long-distance, quantum-secured information transfer betw.....»»
Engineers At MIT Have Created Actual Programmable Fibers
Engineers at MIT have recently announced that they have successfully developed a programmable fiber. Interesting Engineering reports: Featured in Nature Communications, this new research could result in the development of wearable tech that could sen.....»»
Songbirds can control single vocal muscle fibers when singing
The melodic and diverse songs of birds frequently inspire pop songs and poems, and have been for centuries, all the way back to Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" or "The Nightingale" by H.C. Andersen......»»
Acoustic solutions made from natural fibers can reduce buildings" carbon footprints
Good acoustics in the workspace improve work efficiency and productivity, which is one of the reasons why acoustic materials matter. The acoustic insulation market is already expected to hit 15 billion USD by 2022 as construction firms and industry p.....»»
Mumpreneur success still requires conventional masculine behaviour
A new study led by Kent Business School, University of Kent, finds that while the mumpreneur identity may enable women to participate in the business world and be recognized as "proper" entrepreneurs, this success is dependent on alignment with the c.....»»
Molecular jiggling has implications for carbon nanotube fibers
New research suggests the jiggling motion of carbon nanotubes suspended in liquid solutions could have implications for the structure, processing and properties of nanotube fibers formed from those solutions......»»
Grass replaces plastic in take-away food packaging
Grass fibers can replace plastic as a 100% biodegradable and disposable material for packaging for take-away food. This is the goal of the new innovative project SinProPack, which aims to develop a sustainable alternative to the disposable plastics c.....»»
Scientists identify key trends in high-energy-density mixing layers
Imagine a bottle of salad dressing containing oil and vinegar. The oil has a lower density than vinegar, so it floats on the vinegar. The oil will not stay trapped under the vinegar if the bottle is flipped upside down. It will bubble up through the.....»»
Scientists discover faster way to manufacture vascular materials
Developing self-healing materials is nothing new for Nancy Sottos, lead of the Autonomous Materials Systems Group at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign......»»
As M&A accelerates, deal-makers are leveraging AI and ML to keep pace
Using AI and ML to cut out the labor-intensive parts of M&A both speeds the process and reduces the time-consuming tasks that lead to burnout in the industry. Rusty Wiley Contributor Share on Twitter.....»»
Scientists create a new type of intelligent material
Intelligent materials, the latest revolution in the field of materials science, can adapt their properties depending on changes in their surroundings. They can be used in everything from self-healing mobile phone screens, to shape-shifting airplane w.....»»
"Flipping" optical wavefront eliminates distortions in multimode fibers
The use of multimode optical fibers to boost the information capacity of the Internet is severely hampered by distortions that occur during the transmission of images because of a phenomenon called modal crosstalk......»»
Researchers realize coherent storage of light over one hour
Remote quantum distribution on the ground is limited because of the loss of photons in optical fibers. One solution for remote quantum communication lies in quantum memories: photons are stored in long-lived quantum memory (quantum flash drive) and t.....»»