When a person suffers a minor wound, the human body reacts to close the opening, sending the blood platelets needed to the affected area -- and with no need in many cases for any external coagulant ...

Embryonic faults in subsea high voltage installations are difficult to detect and very expensive to repair. Researchers believe that self-repairing materials could be the answer. The vital insulating ...

This release is available in Spanish. Will the day come when cracks in buildings close up without external help and before they get to the stage where they cause damage to the component? This might ...

A car that erases key scratches like an Etch-a-Sketch. A phone that fixes itself when you drop it on the sidewalk moments after buying it. Body armor and robots that can automatically stitch up holes.

We live in an age of plastics, but even after a century of progress, most polymers still come in a single, homogenous form with basic properties. Now a team of researchers at Northwestern University ...

Assistant professor Qiming Wang (center) is working with a team of graduate students and a professor from the University of Connecticut to create self-repairing shoelaces and tires. (Ben Hunt ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) You cut yourself in the finger - and a few days later your skin has completely healed again. Biological organisms have an amazing ability to automatically initiate self-healing ...

Today’s high-end smartphone customers may whine at the very thought of plastic cases, but in the future plastics may be very much back in fashion, albeit with far more interesting properties than what ...

The hidden advantage to buying poorly-made clothing is that it gives you an excuse to go shopping more often — if you’re into that sort of thing. But if we move past our desire to consume new fashion, ...

(Nanowerk News) Embryonic faults in subsea high voltage installations are difficult to detect and very expensive to repair. Researchers believe that self-repairing materials could be the answer. The ...