Using a single material for two functions has great potential for carmakers, says Per-Ivar Sellergren, a senior engineer at Volvo's Material Laboratory in Gothenburg.
Scientists have for the first time created laser light using living biological material: a single human cell and some jellyfish protein.
Or to put it another way, economic conditions in what remains the world's largest single economy have a material impact on our prosperity.
We've seen scientists experiment with DNA as a storage medium -- most recently with a Harvard team fitting 704TB of data onto a single gram of the genetic material -- and it looks like that research trend is only picking up.
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He took eight AP exams in a single year, teaching himself much of the material.
As a result, it is necessary to collect only a single type of plastic to ensure the desired material properties.
This kind of functionality would be invaluable for, say, bloggers wanting to turn years of writing into a book, or for companies with material scattered across departments that they want to pull together into a single publication.
At the time scientists inside and outside the EPA unanimously agreed that the test posed negligible risk. (I wrote the analysis submitted by the Food and Drug Administration.) No new genetic material had been added--only a single gene whose function was well known had been removed--and the organism was obviously harmless.
As a material highly sensitive to the environment, graphene could act as a sensor with a single device measuring strain, gas, magnetism or pressure.
The dark walls and single room in which the works are shown contribute to a hushed, meditative atmosphere, which supplementary material such as digital displays might easily disrupt.
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