That’s because the tape is both robust and flexible; can be stored in a small container when retracted; and can reach far when extended. After a series of trial-and-error experiments, the engineers ...

It's a game a lot of us played as children—and maybe even later in life: unspooling measuring tape to see how far it would extend before bending. But to engineers at the University of California San ...

The firm recently announced agreements with Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics to provide its devices for self-collection of vaginal swab specimens.

MELISSA Moore was aged just 15 when she found a roll of duct tape tucked under her dad's pillow. She was sitting in the sleeping cab of his lorry along with her sister and at the time didn't think ...

Several startups, including Factorial Energy, QuantumScape, and SES AI, have advanced to the sample delivery and pilot runs for semi-solid or quasi-solid-state batteries, with the first-generation ...

For decades, a large collection of cassette tapes sat untouched in the archives at Northern Arizona University. They were labeled simply “Delaware Valley Holocaust Committee.” An NAU team is now ...

He sent Adams a few highlight tapes of the receiver that he personally narrated and communicated with him constantly while Adams was traveling in Japan. “I thought he was out there too,” Adams ...