Color-changing light-emitting fibers woven into fabric enable flexible, pixel-level displays for smart textiles, opening new possibilities for wearable communication.

At the heart of this innovation are polystyrene (PS) nanospheres, each just 400 nanometers wide—about 250 times thinner than ...

Knowing how to style overalls in a sophisticated way is a valuable skill. The garment—a pair of pants held up by suspenders, ...

Researchers at the University of Strathclyde have developed a new method for assembling ultra-small, light-controlling ...

Julie Speidel’s lifelong fascination with the natural world, and humanity’s awed encounters with it, fueled her powerful ...

Researchers in Europe are investigating semi-transparent solar windows, applying microfabrication technniques to both CIGS and perovskite devices, to overcome the view-impeding properties of earlier ...

Drawing inspiration from marine creatures like squids and octopuses, researchers at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln are building synthetic skins designed to power the next generation of “soft” ...

Niagara Falls, an attraction which straddles the Canada-US border, is often illuminated at night by light shows or will ...

Under the moniker Gross Glass, Henry Gross makes tiny marvels out of glass, using oxygen propane torches to manipulate glass rods and tubes.

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All urethane deflects under a load; the lower the durometer value (softer), the greater the deflection. As a brief aside, if ...

These synthetically developed soft skins mimic the cephalopods' color switching and led to the fabrication of stretchable arrays of microstructured, stimuli-responsive versions, Morin said. Multiple ...