Jill Hamilton is a scientist at North Dakota State University, Fargo, who studies plant evolution using genetic tools.
Science shows how to find the best wood for guitars
World’s smallest diamonds make tiny wires
Scientists at Stanford University, Menlo Park, Calif., and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory discovered a way to use diamondoids—the smallest possible bits of diamond—to assemble atoms into the thinnest possible electrical wires, just three atoms wide.
Material could help robots self-heal (with video)
Researchers created a self-healing, transparent, highly stretchable material that can be electrically activated and used to improve batteries, electronic devices, and robots.
Surgical pins change color with strain
Engineers at Tufts University, Medford, Mass., created a new format of solids made from silk protein that can be preprogrammed with biological, chemical, or optical functions, such as mechanical components that change color with strain, deliver drugs, or respond to light.
Intermetallic Ti3Au is four times harder than pure titanium, more biocompatible
Researchers at Rice University, Houston, report that they have developed a titanium-gold-intermetallic (Ti3Au) said to be four times harder than titanium.