New Materials

Self-growing materials that strengthen in response to force

By: 5w4the_future - Aug 18, 2019

Biodesign, Metameterials, New Materials, Synthetic Nature

Researchers develop ‘acoustic metamaterial’ that cancels sound

By: 5w4the_future - Aug 18, 2019

Acoustics, Metameterials, New Materials, Sound

A ‘Magic’ Material Is Now the Big Thing in Physics

By: 5w4the_future - Aug 2, 2019

Carbon nanotubes, nanotechnologies, New Materials

Living Building Blocks: A New Vision for Future Homes

By: 5w4the_future - Aug 2, 2019

Architecture, Bacteria, Biodesign, Biotechnologies, New Materials

A transformable material with a cellular structure

By: 5w4the_future - Oct 28, 2018

3D printing, Biodesign, Metameterials, New Materials

From Seaweed to Fiber, Is Biology The Future Of Fashion?

By: 5w4the_future - Jul 21, 2018

Biotechnologies, Fashion, New Materials, Sustainability

New textile weathers temperature shift

By: 5w4the_future - Feb 14, 2018

Fashion, nanotechnologies, New Materials, Synthetic Nature

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Interview with Jatun Risba

Jatun Risba (‘ki’) is an artist of self, linguist of kinship and joker exploring beyond human paradigms. By approaching Art, Science, Technology in terms of ritual mysticism, ki recovers poetry and magic in contemporary societies. Since 2014 Risba has been developing the practice of ‘interesse’ (Dance of Life) which consists of liminal somatic & […] [...]

Surgical device inspired by parasitic wasps

A surgical device inspired by parasitic wasps could make it easier and less painful to remove certain tumours and blood clots. Parasitic wasps inject their eggs through a long, thin, tubular organ called an ovipositor into living hosts, such as spiders and caterpillars. The organ’s blade-like valves, which run the full length of the tube, […] [...]

Interview with Giada Totaro

Giada Totaro is a new media artist and innovative didactic expert. Between 2002 and 2015 she graduated in “Theatre Direction” and “Cinema, TV and Multimedia Production” at the University of Roma Tre, the first level master “Digital Environment Design” at NABA in Milan, and the second level Diploma at the School of New Technologies […] [...]

Plug-and-play brain–computer interface

Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) offer the potential for people with severe motor disabilities to control external assistive devices with their mind. Current BCI systems are limited, however, by the need for daily recalibration of the decoder that converts neural activity into control signals. Researchers at the UC San Francisco Weill Institute for Neurosciences have now employed machine […] [...]

Pavegen

Pavegen is a people powered, kinetic tech floor tile that creates clean electricity and captivates the imagination of anyone that steps on it. WHO WE ARE Let’s create cities that work for citizens, not machines. Technology alone won’t make cities perform more efficiently. It’s about changing behaviours. Pavegen is a smart, innovative platform that also […] [...]

Interview with Marta de Menezes

Marta de Menezes is a Portuguese artist (b. Lisbon, 1975) with a degree in Fine Arts by the University in Lisbon, a MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture by the University of Oxford, and a PhD candidate at the University of Leiden. She has been exploring the intersection between Art and Biology, […] [...]

A chip made with carbon nanotubes marks a computing milestone

Because carbon nanotubes are almost atomically thin and ferry electricity so well, they make better semiconductors than silicon. In principle, carbon nanotube processors could run three times faster while consuming about one-third of the energy of their silicon predecessors. [...]

Brain-machine interface set to improve life for amputees

A newly designed brain-machine interface dramatically improves performance and reduces mental and physical stress for people with a leg amputated above the knee. [...]

Interview with Dalila Honorato

Dalila Honorato, Ph.D, is a facilitator of safe spaces for hosting the interaction of ideas around liminal issues in the frame of Art&Sci. Her research focus is on embodiment, monstrosity, the uncanny and the acrobatic balance between phobia and paraphilia. She is Tenured Assistant Professor in Aesthetics and Visual Semiotics at the Ionian University, Greece, guest faculty at Alma Mater Europaea, Slovenia, collaborator at the Center of Philosophy of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. [...]

Iota Biosciences raises $15M to produce in-body sensors smaller than a grain of rice

Fitness trackers and heart-rate monitors are all well and good, but if you want to track activity inside the body, the solutions aren’t nearly as convenient. Iota Biosciences wants to change that with millimeter-wide sensors that can live more or less permanently in your body and transmit wirelessly what they detect, and a $15 million […] [...]