Scientists and engineers at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University has developed an innovative wearable fabric that is flexible but can stiffen on demand through a combination of geometric design, 3D printing, and robotic control, the new technology, RoboFabric, can be adapted for applications such as medical devices, soft robotics, drone limbs, or control surfaces of advanced design craft for water and air.

Join Dale Dougherty and a panel of makerspace leaders for a conversation about the challenges of running a community-based makerspace. Some makerspaces closed during Covid, while others survived and some even prospered. We learn more about how these makerspaces are doing, whether their membership has changed and what are some of the priorities and plans for the future. We want to promote the sharing of ideas and lessons learned among the people who lead and operate makerspaces.

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You can turn all your old cooking scraps into gardening gold, thanks to hard-working microbes. Here’s all the science of compost and everything you need to know to get started composting.

The big dogs of the battery industry are now telling us they’ve come up with a neat solution to get these things onto the market and into our electric vehicles. That solution is ‘Semi-Solid-State’ chemistry. So, what’s the difference, and when will we get them?

Plastic is firmly established in our daily lives, but we all know plastic recycling doesn’t really happen. So what can we do? We can convert starches, fungi, seaweed, even shrimp tails into plastic alternatives and bioplastic.