http://www.ccnmag.com Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:32:56 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/scientists_create_first_free-standing_3-d_cloak Researchers in the US have, for the first time, cloaked a three-dimensional object standing in free space, bringing the much-talked-about invisibility cloak one step closer to reality. CalTechNews Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:48:44 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/world_s_lightest_material_created A team of researchers have developed the world's lightest material -- with a density of 0.9 mg/cc -- about one hundred times lighter than Styrofoam™. CalTechNews Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:20:18 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/liquid_can_become_solid_under_electric_field Physicists have demonstrated in simulations that under the influence of sufficiently high electric fields, liquid droplets of certain materials will undergo solidification, forming crystallites at temperature and pressure conditions that correspond to liq CalTechNews Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:53:36 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/engineers_fly_world_s_first_printed_aircraft Engineers at the University of Southampton have designed and flown the world's first 'printed' aircraft, which could revolutionise the economics of aircraft design CalTechNews Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:01:05 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/self-healing,_self-cooling_metamaterials_ Taking their cue from biological circulatory systems, University of Illinois researchers have developed vascularized structural composites, creating materials that are lightweight and strong with potential for self-healing, self-cooling CalTechNews Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:54:49 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/researchers_build_an_antenna_for_light University of Toronto researchers have derived inspiration from the photosynthetic apparatus in plants to engineer a new generation of nanomaterials that control and direct the energy absorbed from light CalTechNews Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:53:34 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/light_propagation_controlled_in_photonic_chips Controling light flow can enable self-focusing light beams, highly directive antennas, and even potentially to cloaking or hiding objects. CalTechNews Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:52:31 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/write_electronic_circuits_with_silver_pen The pen may have bested the sword long ago, but now it's challenging wires and soldering irons CalTechNews Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:10:40 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/intelligent_onboard_transportation_systems_to_prevent_car_crashes_ Since 2000, there have been 110 million car accidents in the United States, more than 443,000 of which have been fatal -- an average of 110 fatalities per day CalTechNews Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:29:21 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/new_way_to_make_lighter,_stronger_steel A Detroit entrepreneur surprised university engineers in Ohio recently, when he invented a heat-treatment that makes steel 7 percent stronger than any steel on record -- in less than 10 seconds CalTechNews Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:31:59 +0100