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  • Designers of Smart Materials Would do Well to Take a Lead from Nature
    News - 19 Jul 2008
    Nature, in the simple form of a tree canopy, appears to provide keen insights into the best way to design complex systems to move substances from one place to another, an essential ingredient in the...
  • Planes with Glass Wings Could Become a Reality
    News - 24 Jun 2008
    Imagine a plane that has wings made out of glass. Thanks to a major breakthrough in understanding the nature of glass by scientists at the University of Bristol, this has just become a...
  • Boeing Advanced Research Centre Sets Foot in Australia
    News - 27 Mar 2008
    CSIRO welcomes Boeing’s announcement today that a branch of its advanced research and development organisation, Phantom Works, which specialises in aerospace solutions, will be established in...
  • Granular Systesm Can be Used as Shock Absorbers
    News - 19 Dec 2006
    A University at Buffalo theoretical physicist who published research in 2001 demonstrating that it someday may be possible to build bridges, buildings and other structures that are nearly blast-proof,...
  • Manchester Launches New Aerospace Composite Centre
    News - 23 Feb 2006
    A new £2.1 million centre for aerospace composite design and manufacture is to be opened at The University of Manchester. The Northwest Composites Centre (NWCC) will carry out research into...
  • Next Wave in Electronics - Wavy Electronics
    News - 16 Dec 2005
    The next wave in electronics could be wavy electronics. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a fully stretchable form of single-crystal silicon with...
  • Pioneering Manufacturing Process to Lighten Titanium, Stainless Steel and Other Metals
    News - 16 Dec 2005
    A pioneering manufacturing process that can turn titanium, stainless steel and many other metals into a new breed of engineering components could have a big impact across industry. Unlike...
  • Toucan Beaks Can Help Materials Scientists and Engineers
    News - 7 Dec 2005
    As a boy growing up in Brazil 40 years ago, Marc A. Meyers marveled at the lightweight toughness of toucan beaks that he occasionally found on the forest floor. Now a materials scientist and professor...
  • The Inverse Doppler Effect
    News - 25 May 2005
    What if the speed of light is a constant only most of the time? What if gravity sometimes pushed instead of pulled? Scientists are increasingly asking what would seem like far-out questions regarding...
  • Sensors That Can Survive Extremes of Heat and Pressure
    News - 12 Apr 2005
    Scientists have developed a new breed of sensors which can survive incredible levels of pressure and heat and that are helping researchers work out how to make buildings that could survive massive...

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