A giant tortoise with a big hole in its shell has been fitted with a specially made fibre-glass 'crash helmet' by vets while the hole heals. The giant, nicknamed Timmy, is thought to have been hurt in ...

Figure 2: X-ray diffractometre (XRD) patterns and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA)/differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) curves of the BSCF-GDC core/shell fibre. Figure 3: Scanning electron ...

Implementing a subsea fibre optic link to underpin automation and remote monitoring aboard Shell Australia's forthcoming Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) platform means it will only need ...

Healy Group, the Ireland-based ingredient supplier, has developed a process to turn cocoa shells – an otherwise under-utilised by-product of cocoa production – into a micronised cocoa fibre that can ...

The European Space Agency’s new Vega launch vehicle could mark a new generation of space launch vehicles that have a shell made from carbon fibre. Italian-based Avio is the prime contractor for the ...

Due to its size - 3 x 2.8m - the SNOFA was prefabricated in six sections and made on site. The curved carbon-fibre shell elements were bonded in the mould to 25mm rigid foam sheets, cut to accommodate ...

From capturing your breath to guiding biological cell movements, 3D printing of tiny, transparent conducting fibres could be used to make devices which can 'smell, hear and touch' - making it ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers from the University of Cambridge used 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, techniques to make electronic fibres, each 100 times thinner than a human hair, ...