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Transport Poverty: What Is It, And How Can We Address It?

New Zealand study shows that half-price fares positively impacted those living on lower incomes

How Roads Fail... And Why They’re Set To Get Worse

Sick of potholes? Thanks to climate change and heavy trucks, we’ll likely see more of them in future

Emissions from Canadian oil sands may be 64 times higher than officially reported

New study from environmental engineers shows that standard monitoring techniques are insufficient

Could solid-state batteries supercharge electric vehicles?

Latest Toyota announcement has led to a lot of hype. But how excited should we get?

Tactile graphics bring chemistry to low-vision students

Centuries-old technique inspires a 'universal' data format

‘Frozen Smoke’ Makes Glass Bricks Strong And Super Insulating

How a material invented in the 1930s might revolutionize the way we construct buildings

New York City Is Sinking Under The Weight Of Its Own Buildings

Large coastal cities like NYC face a double threat from climate change and subsidence

Crowdsourced book recommendations: fiction, sci-fi and fantasy

I put out a call on social media.... here's the result

How To Dig A Tunnel

Tunnel boring machines are a key tool in urban development, which makes them anything but boring.

Does Pushing The Button At A Crossing Actually Do Anything?

If you’ve ever wondered what power you really wield as a pedestrian in a busy city, read on…

Could ‘Sponge Cities’ Help Us Prepare For Our Flooded Future?

Extreme weather, a changing climate, and impervious streets and roads have combined to create an urban disaster

What Happens When You Flush? The Secrets Of Sewage

What I learned on my visit to a London wastewater treatment plant

The paperback

Sticky has a brand-new look

A look back at 2022

9th January 2023

AAAS/Subaru YA Science Book Prize

My first book prize longlist!

Large-scale friction bearing inspires novel nanogenerator design

Tribologists boost power output by keeping friction low

Harvesting electricity from seawater can be sweet

Sugarcane-based generator could power electronic devices

We’re Running Out Of Sand… And Cities Are To Blame

Our obsession with concrete is dismantling beaches and wiping out aquatic wildlife‍

Triboelectric nanogenerator for shoulder rehabilitation

It provides support for the wearer while also generating power

Fire-resistant aerogel could help clean up oil spills

Polymer extracted from biomass is the key ingredient

Oreology

How 'sandwich cookies' fail

How sensitive are our fingertips?

A Twitter thread

I've been busy....

More book promo

Carbon fibre-rubber composite shows potential for use in space

Researchers claim it could outperform commercial thermal interface materials

Sticky is Here!

Promoting my book across the globe (from the comfort of my desk)

Washable, wearable triboelectric sensors

Could self-powered ‘smart clothing’ be a step closer?

New hybrid material rejects ions from seawater

Solar evaporation gets a boost from 2D materials

Welcome! And an update on all things sticky

Welcome to my new website – isn’t she a beaut?!

Spider silk: the future of antimicrobial materials

German scientists demonstrate a world-first – engineered spider silks that inhibit microbial growth

Colourful solar panels could be on the way

Chinese scientists demonstrate tunable polymers for use in photovoltaics

E-textile measures the stresses of taekwondo

Researchers develop flexible, low cost sensors that can be sewn directly into athletic clothing

Nanofiber aerogel made from bacteria

‘Revolutionary, green and scalable’ synthesis for high-performance carbon materials

Sucking up pollutants with crumpled graphene

New material outperforms activated carbon in aqueous environments

A better route to lactose-free milk?

Graphene oxide membranes outperform existing filtration materials, say scientists

A power management system that powers itself

Triboelectric energy harvesters get a boost from Georgia Tech

3D printed graphite structures

New route to creating complex architectures from graphite powder

Making materials with machine learning

Singapore scientists move synthesis from the lab to the computer 

Silica nanoparticles for cancer therapy

Zinc-loaded particles might have the potential to fight breast cancer

A Little Less Sticky Than Before…..

If it feels like an age since I last updated you all on my book-progress

Knitting the future of supercapacitors

US researchers fabricate 3D knitted textiles that store energy

The NZ 'Inferior' campaign

Counting gamma rays with perovskites

Los Alamos team demonstrate the working principle for a new gamma-ray detector

A Sticky Situation

My next book....

Sticky is coming.....

Exploring Crossrail

Physicist Laurie Winkless takes WIRED readers on an exclusive tour of Crossrail's tunnels, deep under the streets of London.

‘Frozen Smoke’ Makes Glass Bricks Strong And Super Insulating

How a material invented in the 1930s might revolutionize the way we construct buildings

New York City Is Sinking Under The Weight Of Its Own Buildings

Large coastal cities like NYC face a double threat from climate change and subsidence

Crowdsourced book recommendations: fiction, sci-fi and fantasy

I put out a call on social media.... here's the result

How To Dig A Tunnel

Tunnel boring machines are a key tool in urban development, which makes them anything but boring.

Does Pushing The Button At A Crossing Actually Do Anything?

If you’ve ever wondered what power you really wield as a pedestrian in a busy city, read on…

Could ‘Sponge Cities’ Help Us Prepare For Our Flooded Future?

Extreme weather, a changing climate, and impervious streets and roads have combined to create an urban disaster

What Happens When You Flush? The Secrets Of Sewage

What I learned on my visit to a London wastewater treatment plant

Large-scale friction bearing inspires novel nanogenerator design

Tribologists boost power output by keeping friction low

Harvesting electricity from seawater can be sweet

Sugarcane-based generator could power electronic devices

We’re Running Out Of Sand… And Cities Are To Blame

Our obsession with concrete is dismantling beaches and wiping out aquatic wildlife‍

Triboelectric nanogenerator for shoulder rehabilitation

It provides support for the wearer while also generating power

Fire-resistant aerogel could help clean up oil spills

Polymer extracted from biomass is the key ingredient

Oreology

How 'sandwich cookies' fail

How sensitive are our fingertips?

A Twitter thread

Carbon fibre-rubber composite shows potential for use in space

Researchers claim it could outperform commercial thermal interface materials

Washable, wearable triboelectric sensors

Could self-powered ‘smart clothing’ be a step closer?

New hybrid material rejects ions from seawater

Solar evaporation gets a boost from 2D materials

Welcome! And an update on all things sticky

Welcome to my new website – isn’t she a beaut?!

Spider silk: the future of antimicrobial materials

German scientists demonstrate a world-first – engineered spider silks that inhibit microbial growth

Colourful solar panels could be on the way

Chinese scientists demonstrate tunable polymers for use in photovoltaics

E-textile measures the stresses of taekwondo

Researchers develop flexible, low cost sensors that can be sewn directly into athletic clothing

Nanofiber aerogel made from bacteria

‘Revolutionary, green and scalable’ synthesis for high-performance carbon materials

Sucking up pollutants with crumpled graphene

New material outperforms activated carbon in aqueous environments

A better route to lactose-free milk?

Graphene oxide membranes outperform existing filtration materials, say scientists

A power management system that powers itself

Triboelectric energy harvesters get a boost from Georgia Tech

3D printed graphite structures

New route to creating complex architectures from graphite powder

Making materials with machine learning

Singapore scientists move synthesis from the lab to the computer 

Silica nanoparticles for cancer therapy

Zinc-loaded particles might have the potential to fight breast cancer

A Little Less Sticky Than Before…..

If it feels like an age since I last updated you all on my book-progress

Knitting the future of supercapacitors

US researchers fabricate 3D knitted textiles that store energy

The NZ 'Inferior' campaign

Counting gamma rays with perovskites

Los Alamos team demonstrate the working principle for a new gamma-ray detector

A Sticky Situation

My next book....

Sticky is coming.....

Exploring Crossrail

Physicist Laurie Winkless takes WIRED readers on an exclusive tour of Crossrail's tunnels, deep under the streets of London.

Transport Poverty: What Is It, And How Can We Address It?

New Zealand study shows that half-price fares positively impacted those living on lower incomes

How Roads Fail... And Why They’re Set To Get Worse

Sick of potholes? Thanks to climate change and heavy trucks, we’ll likely see more of them in future

Emissions from Canadian oil sands may be 64 times higher than officially reported

New study from environmental engineers shows that standard monitoring techniques are insufficient

Could solid-state batteries supercharge electric vehicles?

Latest Toyota announcement has led to a lot of hype. But how excited should we get?

Tactile graphics bring chemistry to low-vision students

Centuries-old technique inspires a 'universal' data format

The paperback

Sticky has a brand-new look

A look back at 2022

9th January 2023

AAAS/Subaru YA Science Book Prize

My first book prize longlist!

I've been busy....

More book promo

Sticky is Here!

Promoting my book across the globe (from the comfort of my desk)

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