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Ex-NBA Player Leads Pennsbury High Hall Of Fame Class - Levittown, PA - Former NBA player Lavoy Allen is among five inductees of the Hall of Fame's second class. A ceremony will be held in October.

Researchers have used structural-color fibers comprising layers of different polymers to produce an optical barcode for identifying different fabrics.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory researchers have developed fibers containing "optical barcodes" that can improve the ability to sort and recycle textiles. The fibers can be woven into fabrics as built-in labels, and reflect specific wavelengths of infrared light when scanned.

A distributed sensor network may help researchers identify the physical processes contributing to diminishing sea ice in the planet’s fastest-warming region.

Thin-film electrodes developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have been used in human patients at the University of California, San Francisco, generating never-before-seen recordings of brain activity in the hippocampus, a region responsible for memory and other cognitive functions.