15-11-13 A new report has suggested that China's manufacturing industry is losing out to the United States in terms of its cost advantage. 一份新的报告显示，中国的制造业对比美国制造业已经失去成本优势。 According to the 2015 China Purchasing Development Repor...

15-07-24 Organic molecules allow producing printable electronics and solar cells with extraordinary properties. In spintronics, too, molecules open up the unexpected possibility of controlling the magnetism of materials and, thus, the spin of the flowing ele...

15-07-12 Traditional robots are made of components and rigid materials like you might see on an automotive assembly line - metal and hydraulic parts, harshly rigid, and extremely strong. But away from the assembly line, for robots to harmoniously assist huma...

15-04-22 In seeking to develop the next generation of micro-electronic transistors, researchers have long sought to find the next best thing to replace silicon. To this end, a wealth of recent research into fully flexible electronic circuitry has focused on...

15-03-22 An Oakland artist is ingeniously battling homelessness in Oakland, California: he builds small houses out of materials he can find in the streets, with each edifice costing around forty bucks. 在加州奥克兰，一位当地的艺术家巧妙地解决人们无家可归的问...

15-01-20 DNA molecules provide the source code for life in humans, plants, animals and some microbes. But now researchers report an initial study showing that the strands can also act as a glue to hold together 3-D-printed materials that could someday be use...

14-12-23 Cuprates are materials with great promise for achieving superconductivity at higher temperatures (-120oC). This could mean low-cost electricity without energy loss. Intense research has focused on understanding the physics of cuprates in the hope th...

14-12-10 UCL scientists have shown how advanced computer simulations can be used to design new composite materials. Nanocomposites, which are widely used in industry, are revolutionary materials in which microscopic particles are dispersed through plastics....

14-07-31 Long before humans figured out how to create colors, nature had already perfected the process -- think stunning, bright butterfly wings of many different hues（色调） , for example. Now scientists are tapping into those secrets to develop a more env...

14-07-29 Although most natural and synthetic processes prefer to settle into equilibrium（均衡，平静） -- a state of unchanging balance without potential or energy -- it is within the realm of non-equilibrium conditions where new possibilities lie. Non-equil...