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An aircraft made entirely by a 3D printer takes flight
19 Apr 2013
Engineers at the University of Southampton have designed and flown the world’s first ‘printed’ aircraft, which could revolutionise the economics of aircraft design
Decoding the structure of bone
By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 17 Apr 2013
New type of solar structure cools buildings in full sunlight
By By Andrew Myers | 15 Apr 2013
Patterning graphene with DNA
By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 10 Apr 2013
Folded DNA templates allow researchers to precisely cut out graphene shapes, which could be used in electronic circuits.
A new understanding of metallic glass
By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 05 Apr 2013
New insulating plaster for Bamberg’s old town
01 Apr 2013
Trees used to create recyclable, efficient solar cell
28 Mar 2013
Solar cells are just like leaves, capturing the sunlight and turning it into energy. It’s fitting that they can now be made partially from trees
New solar-cell design based on dots and wires
By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 26 Mar 2013
Breakthrough in race to create 'bio-batteries'
26 Mar 2013
Scientists at the University of East Anglia have made an important breakthrough in the quest to generate clean electricity from bacteria.
Predicted state of atomic collapse seen for first time
By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 16 Mar 2013
Atomic collapse, a phenomenon first predicted in the 1930s based on quantum mechanics and relativistic physics but never before observed, has now been seen for the first time in an “artificial nucleus” simulated on a sheet of graphene
New material could improve ultrasound technology
By By Ryan Garcia | 08 Mar 2013
Neutron scattering technique provides new data on adsorption of ions in microporous materials
05 Mar 2013
Researchers experiment with shape-changing GHOSTS to change the face of digital display units
04 Mar 2013
Tuned coatings ensure cleanliness
02 Mar 2013
New technique scales up graphene micro-supercapacitor production
By By Davin Malasarn | 22 Feb 2013
A taste of the graphene sandwich
14 Feb 2013
Cheap, long-life lithium-ion battery developed
14 Feb 2013
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