Science & Technology
- The new technology, called SLIP, mimics the structure of snake scales to create an ultra-slick surface.
- New findings that provide important clues to the long-standing mystery of where bodily tissues get their strength could also lead to more life-like artificial tissues and tumor busting drugs.
- Millions of residents lost heat and power as energy grids failed when sub-zero temperatures and snowfall swept across Texas. Energy grid experts Kyri Baker and Bri-Mathias Hodge discuss how this happened and how to prevent future disasters.
- Department of Media Studies Scholar-in-Residence Hunter Vaughan, along with an international team, is working to track and help decarbonize the subsea cable network.
- ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ may soon be part of large-scale research into the electromagnetic spectrum that could define wireless innovation across everyday life for the next generation.
- A swallowable, remote-controlled robot that roams around inside a person’s intestines, using tools to perform procedures and sending back a live video stream of this funky pink environment? Now that’s some seriously cool science.
- Researchers from JILA, Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley, have used an innovative technique called "quantum squeezing" to dramatically speed up the search for one candidate for dark matter in the lab.
- A team of engineers has developed a new device that you can wear like a ring or bracelet and that harvests energy from your own body heat.
- New kinds of liquid crystals developed at ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ resemble gypsum or lazulite crystals—except they flow like fluids.
- Long before the pandemic sent people scrambling into isolation, musicians longed to jam virtually with others across the globe. But online jamming isn’t feasible because of latency, the tiny delay that occurs when data travels from one point to the next.