ESA-backed inchworm robot uses artificial muscles and grooves to steer across terrain without complex electronics.

Git isn't hard to learn, and when you combine Git and GitHub, you've just made the learning process significantly easier. This two-hour Git and GitHub video tutorial shows you how to get started with ...

Predicting material properties remains a major challenge in materials science, as it often requires complex and computationally intensive calculations. In particular, understanding how materials ...

Liquid cooling is quickly becoming a widely accepted option for keeping high-density IT gear within its optimal operating temperature. And so the growing adoption of direct-to-chip (which can use ...

Dielectric grease is supremely helpful, but often misunderstood. The compound has all sorts of applications, including on automobiles, in electrical work, and basically anywhere else where electricity ...

Dielectric elastomers (DEs) are electroactive smart materials capable of significant reversible deformation under electric fields. Their muscle-like properties, including compliance, large strain, ...

ORANGE, Texas — Lion Elastomers will cease rubber production at its Orange facility by the end of the year, the company announced Thursday, affecting approximately 100 employees at a plant that has ...

Abstract: This study investigates the diffusion kinetics of seawater into silicone dielectric elastomers and examines their detrimental effects on electromechanical performance in energy harvesting ...

Clothes that can mimic the feeling of being touched, touch displays that provide haptic feedback to users, or even ultralight loudspeakers. These are just some of the devices made possible using thin ...

FR4 is FR4, right? For a lot of PCB designs, the answer is yes — the particular characteristics of the substrate material don’t impact your design in any major way. But things get a little weird up in ...

Sourcing the most effective means of keeping vehicle batteries cool is a task explored extensively in IDTechEx's latest report, "Thermal Management for Electric Vehicles 2025-2035: Materials, Markets, ...