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SeaVees announces the launch of a new limited-edition sneaker collaboration with American tire company BFGoodrich Tires in honor of the sneaker brand’s 60th anniversary. The Founder’s Edition Yacht Shoe, available June 1, 2025, marks a historic reunion: the first time SeaVees and BFGoodrich have teamed up since the tire company founded the shoe brand in 1964.

U.S. Medical Glove Company (USMGC), the only American manufacturer of the machinery, chemicals, and materials required to produce both nitrile and polyisoprene gloves, announced the execution of a master lease for a 638,000 square-foot manufacturing facility in Ohio, managed by CAI Investments LLC. This critical move marks the final phase in USMGC’s mission to build and secure a 100% American-made medical and surgical glove supply chain—free from reliance on China or any foreign supplier.

A groundbreaking innovation from ETH Zurich is set to transform medical training and reduce reliance on animal testing. Swiss Vascular, a spin-off from the university’s Multi-Scale Robotics Lab, has developed anatomically precise silicone models of cerebral blood vessels, offering a hyper-realistic platform for practicing complex medical procedures.

While studying different cross-linking structures in silicone, the research team stumbled upon the potential for electrical conductivity in a copolymer, which is a polymer chain containing two different types of repeating units—cage-structured and then linear silicones in this case.

The possibility for conductivity arises from the way electrons can move across Si—O—Si bonds with overlapping orbitals. Semiconductors have two main states: the ground state, which doesn’t conduct electricity, and a conducting state, which does. The conducting state, also known as an excited state, occurs when some electrons jump up to the next electron orbital, which is connected across the material like a metal.