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WPI student researchers in advanced manufacturing lab

Project to harness AI and additive for viable parts from scrap

From left to right: Professor Keith Ryden, James Whitfield, Astha Astha, Dr Keiran Clifford, project leader Dr Noelia Noël and Luca Ferrian

Surrey teams work to take the shine off satellites

This image combines time-lapsed photos to show ‘metashells’ leaping into the air from a snowy surface

Viscoelastic metashells jump on a preset timer

Artist's impression of a lunar Max space habitation

The technologies that will underpin a sustainable long-term future in space

Harris Tweed adopts additive to avert looming crisis

Panels coated with the new composite absorb moisture at night and release it during the day for passive cooling.

Acrylate cooling material boosts solar cell efficiency

Comment: Data can help unlock lithium recycling

By controlling the chirality of the coiled springs, the direction of actuation could be reversibly designed

Light-powered artificial muscle works in water

Gibeon meteorite, National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC

Laser ultrasound tests space rock stiffness

The biocomposite has been successfully tested as a strawberry punnet that biodegrades completely in soil, fresh water, the ocean and in compost

Biodegradable plastic could improve sustainability of food packaging

Converting food-waste digestate, a residue from biogas production, into biochar offers a low-cost, high-impact climate solution

Biochar from food waste could save 93,000 tonnes of CO2

Some binders, such as polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), substantially increased the mechanical strength of the pellets

Sponge-like pellets capture carbon dioxide