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28 February 2013
Scientists have produced a bendy battery that can stretch elastically to three times its normal length without...
28 February 2013
A team of US scientists have developed a flexible battery than can be stretched to three times its size without...
14 February 2013
Soft robots can be simple and cheap but incredibly agile: powered by explosions, they can leap at least 30 times their...
14 February 2013
A group of US and Chinese researchers have developed a generator that can convert footsteps into electrical power...
07 February 2013
And finally, enormous library archives of magnetic tape or other media could one day be a thing of the past if a new...
07 February 2013
A group of Korean researchers have produced flexible films of thermoelectric material that can generate electricity...
24 January 2013
Does improved energy efficiency translate into a saving for the planet? Or does it just mean people use more resources...
04 November 2012
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but scientists have developed a DNA-based “smart gel” that can contract...
04 November 2012
The light-emitting tails of fireflies have revealed a way for scientists to create more efficient LEDs.
01 November 2012
Nature has inspired researchers to make brighter, more efficient LEDs, by copying the structure of a firefly’s rear end.
23 September 2012
A new form of backwards printing has been developed with a very high resolution
23 September 2012
The drill bits which the Curiosity rover will use to examine Martian rocks may be contaminated with Earth life.
19 September 2012
In a giant leap for technology, scientists have doubled the electricity-producing efficiency of the thermoelectric...
16 September 2012
A superhydrophobic layer repels water from hot metal and prevents it boiling...
02 September 2012
A router which auto-corrects its position, allowing you to cut precision shapes by hand, has been built by researchers...
02 September 2012
Cable-like batteries which can be tied into a knot have been developed in Korea...
01 July 2012
How can you communicate if you can’t move a muscle? This is the situation for people with ‘locked-in syndrome’ - but a...
27 May 2012
Scientists have discovered the chemical combination the constitutes a flavoursome tomato
25 May 2012
Researchers have developed a DNA-based memory chip for storing information inside cells that could allow us to track...
20 May 2012
A plan to rescue stranded satellites has been developed.
25 March 2012
Using a laser, a super fast camera and a clever algorithm, researchers at MIT have developed the ability to see, in 3D...
11 March 2012
How you type a word could change the way you emotionally respond to it, and words typed with mainly the right hand seem...
04 March 2012
A device that can stop someone speaking from across a room has been developed