Conductive inks and adhesives were used in the earliest electronics. Thomas Edison was the first to propose conductive adhesives as a way to replace wires all the way back in 1904. Today, adhesives are used with conventional etched copper circuit boards and also with other Polymer Thick Film (PTF) materials to produce electronic products that can be built very efficiently. Safe, reliable and lo...

Social communication relies on intentional control of emotional expression. Its variability across cultures suggests important roles for imitation in developing control over enactment of subtly different facial expressions and therefore skills in emotional communication. Both empathy and the imitation of an emotionally communicative expression may rely on a capacity to share both the experience...

Zoltan: Captain, since Org “enthusiastically landed” our ship, I have successfully repaired all our equipment except for the tricorders. While they are highly reliable in identifying which humans are pregnant, their compromised power supply won’t last until the planned abduction date. We are, therefore, evaluating other potential identification methods. We will use the tricorders as the gold st...

Microfluidics, a field that has been well-established for several decades, has seen extensive applications in the areas of biology, chemistry, and medicine. However, it might be very hard to imagine how such soft microfluidic devices would be used in other areas, such as electronics, in which stiff, solid metals, insulators, and semiconductors have previously dominated. Very recently, things ha...