Houseplant power

by vnilsson87

2013 Houseplant power University of Georgia   Photosynthesis is a pretty basic process that scientists have understood for quite a while. But a recent breakthrough in the collection of solar energy just might… Continue reading →

Biological hard drive

by vnilsson87

2012 Biological hard drive Dr Sarah Staniland -Britain’s University of Leeds, Japan’s Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology   In the future we might never run out of disk space again. Researchers are… Continue reading →

Aerographite – the worlds lightest material

by bjorning

German material scientists from Kiel University and the Hamburg University of Technology have created the world’s lightest material, dubbed aerographite. One cubic centimeter of aerographite weighs just 0.2 milligrams, which is four times… Continue reading →

4D Printing

by vnilsson87

2007 4D Printing Skylar Tibbitz,Self-Assembly lab, MIT The way we build our structures has become more and more sophisticated. But the materials we build them from are static, waiting for us to fit… Continue reading →

Growing architecture through mushrooms

by bjorning

Mycelium is like a glue: it latches onto whatever it finds around it,usually, low-value organic matter like plant stalks or cotton hulls—to create a super-dense network of threads. It is grown it in… Continue reading →

Bacterial Concrete

by bjorning

This research presents the results of a study in which natural microbial biological processes were used to engi- neer a cemented soil within loose sand. Microbially induced calcite precipitation (MICP) was achieved by… Continue reading →