Engineers have long designed tough materials from tidy grids, because order is easy to predict. Nature often does the opposite: bone and spider silk owe part of their resilience to irregular, messy structure. A team led by The Chinese University of Hong Kong has now used physics-guided AI to design lightweight materials that borrow that lesson, and the printed results were tougher than the team had targeted.
According to CUHK's press release, the study appeared in Physical Review X and was ...
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Tension helps heart cells develop normally in the lab.
Stanford researchers Beth Pruitt and Alexandre Ribeiro have discovered that a heart cell matured from stem cells in the lab looks and behaves like a normal adult heart cell when grown in a long, thin shape and on a surface that provides some tension. Pruitt and her colleagues at the Stanford University School of Medicine began working on the problem of how to develop more normal looking heart cells through a Stanford Bio-X grant in 2010. At the time, their goal was to find ways of probing the me...
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3D-printed toothbrush cleans all Your teeth in 6 Seconds
Imagine if you could brush your teeth in six seconds. Bizzident is the 6 Second toothbrush that provides a faster and better way to brush your teeth.
This new and revolutionary technique of brushing has just been developed by a team of dentists who have created a toothbrush which they claim can clean teeth thoroughly in such a short amount of time.
The process of ordering one of these custom-fit brushes begins in your dentist's office. Your dentist takes an impression of your teeth and sen...
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PalmSecure For Individual Vein Pattern Recognition
An innovative biometric identification and security device works without any contact to scanner.
The latest technology from PalmSecure™ is a leading-edge authentication system using biometric technology that uses vein pattern recognition.
As organizations search for more secure authentication methods for data access, physical access and general security, many are turning to biometrics.
Biometrics is gaining attention as a reliable, highly accurate and efficient method of confirming a pe...
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