Published on: 2025-06-05 06:00:00
From AI to EVs, demand for semiconductors is exploding, but silicon is hitting its limits. Making more efficient chips requires new materials, ones far less ubiquitous than sand, but the solution might be out there — literally. Space Forge, a U.K. startup headquartered in Cardiff, Wales, recently raised a £22.6 million (approximately $30 million) Series A to make wafer materials in space, where unique conditions unlock new possibilities. For instance, the Welsh startup earlier won funding for
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A serendipitous observation in a Chemical Engineering lab at Penn Engineering has led to a surprising discovery: a new class of nanostructured materials that can pull water from the air, collect it in pores and release it onto surfaces without the need for any external energy. The research, published in Science Advances, was conducted by an interdisciplinary team, including Daeyeon Lee, Russell Pearce and Elizabeth Crimian Heuer Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE), Amish Pat
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A serendipitous observation in a Chemical Engineering lab at Penn Engineering has led to a surprising discovery: a new class of nanostructured materials that can pull water from the air, collect it in pores and release it onto surfaces without the need for any external energy. The research, published in Science Advances, was conducted by an interdisciplinary team, including Daeyeon Lee, Russell Pearce and Elizabeth Crimian Heuer Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE), Amish Pat
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A serendipitous observation in a Chemical Engineering lab at Penn Engineering has led to a surprising discovery: a new class of nanostructured materials that can pull water from the air, collect it in pores and release it onto surfaces without the need for any external energy. The research, published in Science Advances, was conducted by an interdisciplinary team, including Daeyeon Lee, Russell Pearce and Elizabeth Crimian Heuer Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE), Amish Pat
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Editor's take: As Space Forge prepares for its first demonstration mission, the company is positioning itself for a new era in advanced manufacturing. By taking production beyond the confines of Earth, Space Forge hopes to deliver breakthroughs that could reshape industries, strengthen supply chains, and contribute to a more sustainable future. A British startup focused on manufacturing advanced ma
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ZDNET's key takeaways Vonmählen's Evergreen Mag is currently only available in Europe for €70. It's ultra-thin and light with a premium metal finish, USB-C port, and Qi2 charging pad. Unfortunately it's not available in North America yet. View now at Vonmaehlen The tech explosion has vastly outstripped our ability to recycle tech once it reaches the end of its life. According to data supplied by the UNITAR (United Nations Institute for Training and Research), 62 million tons of e-waste were p
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Choose wisely! The correct answer, the explanation, and an intriguing story await. Correct Answer: Norio Taniguchi, Materials Scientist (1974) What was Comdex before it was shut down in the early 2000s? The term "nanotechnology" was coined by Professor Norio Taniguchi in 1974 at the Tokyo Science University. He introduced it in a scientific paper presented at the International Conference on Production Engineering, defining it as "the processing of separation, consolidation, and deformation of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-22 20:00:19
When you hear the word mummy, chances are you think of ancient Egypt. Many different cultures embalmed their deceased, however, and scientists have just found a particularly unexpected case. As detailed in a study published today in the journal Frontiers in Medicine, researchers analyzed a well-preserved 18th-century mummy from a small Austrian village. The individual represents the first documented example of a previously unknown—and frankly strange—embalming method, which essentially involved
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Military-grade infrared vision goggles use detectors made of mercury cadmium telluride, a semiconducting material that’s particularly sensitive to infrared radiation. Unfortunately, you need to keep detectors that use this material extremely cool—roughly at liquid nitrogen temperatures—for them to work. “Their cooling systems are very bulky and very heavy,” says Xinyuan Zhang, an MIT researcher and the lead author of a new study that looked for alternative IR-sensitive materials. Added weight w
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ZDNET's key takeaways Vonmählen's Evergreen Mag is currently only available in Europe for €70. It's ultra-thin and light with a premium metal finish, USB-C port, and Qi2 charging pad. Unfortunately it's not available in North America yet. View now at Vonmaehlen The tech explosion has vastly outstripped our ability to recycle tech once it reaches the end of its life. According to data supplied by the UNITAR (United Nations Institute for Training and Research), 62 million tons of e-waste were p
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ZDNET's key takeaways Vonmählen's Evergreen Mag is currently only available in Europe for €70. It's ultra-thin and light with a premium metal finish, USB-C port, and Qi2 charging pad. Unfortunately it's not available in North America yet. View now at Vonmaehlen The tech explosion has vastly outstripped our ability to recycle that tech once it hits the end of its life. According to data supplied by the UNITAR (United Nation Institute for Training and Research), 62 million tons of e-waste was p
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ZDNET's key takeaways Vonmählen's Evergreen Mag is currently only available in Europe for €70. It's ultra-thin and light with a premium metal finish, USB-C port, and Qi2 charging pad. Unfortunately it's not available in North America yet. View now at Vonmaehlen The tech explosion has vastly outstripped our ability to recycle that tech once it hits the end of its life. According to data supplied by the UNITAR (United Nation Institute for Training and Research), 62 million tons of e-waste was p
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An in-depth candle explainer is in the works, but in the meantime, here’s some helpful information. Candle materials: There are a few popular materials for candles, including soy wax, paraffin wax, vegetable wax, coconut wax, and some others. Paraffin holds a scent well; soy wax lasts for a long time; palm wax has a high melting point. Sometimes candles are made with a blend of wax types. However, you should beware of one ingredient being marketed as more sustainable than others. Palm products
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-08 04:00:00
To test this idea, he combined solutions of natural mucin proteins with synthetic mussel-inspired polymers and observed how the resulting mixture solidified and stuck to surfaces over time. “It’s like a two-part epoxy. You combine two liquids together, and chemistry starts to occur so that the liquid solidifies while the substance is simultaneously gluing itself to the surface,” Degen says. The resulting gel strongly adheres even to wet surfaces while preventing the buildup of bacteria. The r
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-11 09:13:36
Nintendo is going after the leaker behind last year’s massive Pokémon data breach , according to a report by Polygon . The company has asked a California court to force Discord to give up the identity of the person behind the leak, who goes by the name "GameFreakOUT" on the platform. Nintendo wants Discord to release the name, address, phone number and email address of the leaker. It said in a subpoena that the person uploaded "confidential materials not released to the public" to a Discord ser
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-14 04:48:40
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Overview of the strategy for rubber deconstruction. a, Proposed route for achieving deconstruction of vulcanized polybutadiene. R is either H, ammonium or hydrated form of aldehyde. b, Mechanism of 2-aza-Cope rearrangement/deconstruction of aminated model polymer. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08716-
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Shared micromobility company Lime has reached an agreement to send batteries used in its scooters and e-bikes to Redwood Materials, which will extract and recycle critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, and copper. The agreement announced Monday makes Redwood Materials the exclusive battery recycling partner for Lime’s shared scooters and e-bikes located in cities throughout the United States, Germany and The Netherlands. The agreement doesn’t cover every region in which Lime operate
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Shared micromobility company Lime has reached an agreement to send batteries used in its scooters and e-bikes to Redwood Materials, which will extract and recycle critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, and copper. The agreement announced Monday makes Redwood Materials the exclusive battery recycling partner for Lime’s shared scooters and e-bikes located in cities throughout the United States, Germany and The Netherlands. The agreement doesn’t cover every region in which Lime operate
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-23 09:00:00
is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Lime, the largest bike- and scooter-sharing company in the world, announced that it has struck a deal with Redwood Materials to recycle its lithium-ion batteries. Lime says its e-bike and e-scooter batteries typically last 500 charge cycles, or between five and seven years. Once those batteries reach their end of life, Lim
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-01 22:49:00
China has tightened control over the global rare earth supply by introducing new export restrictions that could disrupt industries dependent on these materials. The latest measures, announced late last week, target seven elements – including scandium and dysprosium – used in smartphones, electric vehicles, and military tech. Rather than a blanket ban, the rules require exporters to obtain licenses and specify how buyers intend to use the materials, creating bureaucratic friction that could delay
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China has tightened control over the global rare earth supply by introducing new export restrictions that could disrupt industries dependent on these materials. The latest measures, announced late last week, target seven elements – including scandium and dysprosium – used in smartphones, electric vehicles, and military tech. Rather than a blanket ban, the rules require exporters to obtain licenses and specify how buyers intend to use the materials, creating bureaucratic friction that could delay
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Redwood Materials has been on an expansion tear in recent years — growth that has extended the lithium-ion battery recycling and materials startup’s footprint well beyond its Carson City, Nevada headquarters as it locked up deals with Toyota, Panasonic, and, GM, started construction on a South Carolina factory, and made an acquisition in Europe. And yet, Redwood Materials CTO Colin Campbell saw a gap in the company’s 1,100-person workforce. San Francisco was the answer, Campbell told TechCrunch
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Researchers have developed a new AI model that predicts dendritic growth in thin films, helping optimize thin-film growth processes Thin film devices, composed of layers of materials a few nanometers thick, play an important role in various technologies, from semiconductors to communication technologies. For instance, graphene and hexagonal-boron nitride (h-BN) multilayer thin films, deposited on copper substrates, are promising materials for next-generation high-speed communications systems. T
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This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: The photographs show the TPA product formation at different runs after every 4 h of heating (total reaction time = 20 h). Credit: Green Chemistry (2025). DOI: 10.1039/D4GC05916F Harnessing moisture from air, Northwestern University chemists have developed a simple new method for breaking down plastic waste. The non
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“Perovskite LEDs are cheaper and easier to manufacture than traditional LEDs, and they can also produce vibrant and intense colours if used in screens. I’d say that this is the next generation of LED technology,” says Feng Gao, professor of optoelectronics at Linköping University. However, for a technological shift to take place, where today’s LEDs are replaced with those based on the material perovskite, more than just technical performance is required. Feng Gao, professor of optoelectronics
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In Brief Liam Fedus, OpenAI’s VP of research for post-training, is leaving the company to found a materials science AI startup. The Information initially reported Fedus’ plans. In a statement on X, Fedus confirmed the report and added a few additional details. “My undergrad was in physics and I’m keen to apply this technology there,” Fedus said in the statement. “Because AI for science is one of the most strategically important areas to OpenAI and achieving [artificial superintelligence], Ope
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7.0 / 10 SCORE Cricut Maker 4 $399 at Cricut Pros Faster than its predecessor Reliable apps Great selection of supported materials Cons Little to no accuracy improvements No new supported materials When Cricut's previous generation of cutting machines was released in 2021, the company faced little actual competition. Cricut's industry-leading software, impressive collection of uniquely supported materials and a growing household brand name made it clear this was the place to be. Nearly four
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“This photo was taken at the MycoTile waste-processing space at the Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute in Nairobi. The sacks are full of sugar-cane bagasse, a fibrous material that is left behind when the juice is extracted. Sugar-cane processing factories produce mountains of bagasse as waste. I’m the co-founder and chief executive of MycoTile, which works to produce affordable building materials out of agricultural waste bonded with oyster-mushroom mycelium, a network of tiny
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When mechanical and structural engineers design machines, bridges, and buildings, they calculate loads, stresses, and deformation of metal, steel, concrete, glass, wood, and plastic to find the optimal geometry that bears loads with the minimum cost of material. Designing for relatively hard materials that do not deform too much is commonly handled by software that calculates and optimizes structures using mathematical models that are well understood and easily applied. But there is an expandi
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Atlant 3D has raised $15 million as demand grows for its manufacturing system that builds materials and devices atom by atom. Atlant 3D describes itself as a pioneering atomic-scale advanced manufacturing company that utilizes digital and atomically precise processing technologies to enable rapid innovation across the whole microelectronics value chain. The company said its atomic-scale manufacturing technology enables precise development of advanced materials and devices for optics, photonics
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