Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed an innovative new technique using carbon nanofibers to enhance binding in carbon fiber and other fiber-reinforced polymer composites – an advance likely to improve structural materials for automobiles, airplanes and other applications that require lightweight and strong materials. 

Fungi have been around for many millions of years, with the incremental process of evolution honing and improving their survival skills through the millennia. Now, researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York are studying the cell structure of fungi to learn how it determines their mechanical properties and what science can learn from that to create better materials.

 

A University of Houston optometry professor, who has pioneered the method of wearing multifocal lenses to slow myopia, is now reporting the biological changes associated with slowing eye growth when wearing multifocal lenses.  

Study shows that carbon and nitrogen losses from the soil persist for nearly a decade after burning, and conversion to agriculture causes even more severe impacts.