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Archeo‐Inspiration from the Cultural History of Glass: Historic Accounts, Anecdotes and Hard Facts as Challenges to Modern Material Science

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Glass, historically valued for its purity and durability, has long inspired artists and societies. This article introduces the concept of “Archeo‐Inspiration”, drawing on cultural and historical contexts of glass to guide future material innovations.
Eva von Contzen, Julia von Ditfurth, Fabian Stroth, Bastian E. Rapp   +3 more
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AI-generated faces show lower morphological diversity than real faces do

Anthropological Review
Some recent studies suggest that artificial intelligence can create realistic human faces subjectively unrecognizable from faces of real people. We have compared static facial photographs of 197 real men with a sample of 200 male faces generated by ...
Olga Boudníková, Karel Kleisner
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Adaptive Twisting Metamaterials

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This work introduces torque‐controlled twisting metamaterials as a transformative platform for adaptive crashworthiness. By combining multiscale predictive modeling with experimental validation on additively manufactured gyroids, it demonstrates tunable stiffness, collapse stress, and energy absorption.
Mattia Utzeri, Maria L. Gatto, Edoardo Mancini, Donato Orlandi, Daniele Cortis, Marco Sasso, Shanmugam Kumar   +6 more
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Materials and System Design for Self‐Decision Bioelectronic Systems

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review highlights how self‐decision bioelectronic systems integrate sensing, computation, and therapy into autonomous, closed‐loop platforms that continuously monitor and treat diseases, marking a major step toward intelligent, self‐regulating healthcare technologies.
Qiankun Zeng, Hong Liu, Yongheng Zhang, Youbin Zheng, Xuyin Ding, Mengni Zhu, Guoyue Shi, Yan Wang, Hossam Haick, Min Zhang   +9 more
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Integrating Ethics of Technology into a Serious Game: The Case of Tethics

Open Philosophy
In the face of what is called “Existential risks/threats” or “polycrisis” – where digitalization, biomedicalization, and environmental degradation intertwine as existential threats – this article argues for a critical philosophy of technology as a ...
Perperidis Giannis, Spilios Iason, Simos Manolis, Tympas Aristotle   +3 more
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THE FUTURE OF ISLAM AND SCIENCE: PHILOSOPHICAL GROUNDS

Zygon, 2020
This introduction provides an overview of the significance of this Symposium on Islam and Science in the Future. Compiling this project began in early 2019 and various articles by philosophers, Islamicists and historians tackle the relationship between ...
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Hume's Natural Philosophy and Philosophy of Physical Science [PDF]

, 2020
This book contextualizes David Hume's philosophy of physical science, exploring both Hume's background in the history of early modern natural philosophy and its subsequent impact on the scientific ...
Slavov, Matias
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From the Discovery of the Giant Magnetocaloric Effect to the Development of High‐Power‐Density Systems

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
The article overviews past and current efforts on caloric materials and systems, highlighting the contributions of Ames National Laboratory to the field. Solid‐state caloric heat pumping is an innovative method that can be implemented in a wide range of cooling and heating applications.
Agata Czernuszewicz, Yaroslav Mudryk, Jun Cui, Lucas Griffith, Duane D. Johnson, Julie Slaughter   +5 more
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End‐to‐End Sensing Systems for Breast Cancer: From Wearables for Early Detection to Lab‐Based Diagnosis Chips

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review explores advances in wearable and lab‐on‐chip technologies for breast cancer detection. Covering tactile, thermal, ultrasound, microwave, electrical impedance tomography, electrochemical, microelectromechanical, and optical systems, it highlights innovations in flexible electronics, nanomaterials, and machine learning.
Neshika Wijewardhane, Lyn I. Jones, Richard M. Martin, Helen Winter, Faezeh Arab Hassani   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diffraction phenomenon in optical history and textbooks: Reflections on learning difficulties [PDF]

Investigações em Ensino de Ciências, 2015
This paper addresses the difficulties showed by students in the paradigm shift between geometrical optics and wave optics. It tries to interpret its origin at the university level.
Silvia Bravo, Marta Pesa
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