The e-skin is malleable, self-healing and fully recyclable promising to revolutionise robotics, prosthetis and biomedical devices. A Terminator-style electronic skin that repairs itself just like the film’s main villain is has been developed by scientists. The e-skin is malleable, self-healing and fully recyclable promising to revolutionise robotics, prosthetis and biomedical devices. E-skins are thin, translucent …

Human eggs have been matured from their most primitive state to full development in the lab for the first time. The resulting eggs are ready to be fertilised, and, if healthy, could in theory be used to advance IVF treatments as well as helping women who had cancer when they were young. “It is really …

One day, about a billion years ago, Earth’s inner core had a growth spurt. The molten ball of liquid metal at the center of our planet rapidly crystallized due to lowering temperatures, growing steadily outward until it reached the roughly 760-mile (1,220 kilometers) diameter to which it’s thought to extend today. That’s the conventional story …

Scientists found 222 nanometer far-UVC light was just as effective as broad spectrum UV light at killing and deactivating the aerosolized influenza virus. Experiments prove low doses of far ultraviolet C light, or far-UVC light, can wipe out airborne flu virus without harming humans. Researchers at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center suggest far-UVC lamps …

Scientists have developed a new, more efficient way to filter salt and metal ions from water. The method relies on metal-organic frameworks, a unique material with an expansive internal surface area and crystals capable of trapping chemical compounds dissolved in water. Currently, reverse osmosis membranes are responsible for the majority of desalinization efforts. The membranes …