Scientists Give Enzymes New Abilities Not Normally Found in Nature
Scientists have created a new family of artificial enzymes that can build important chemical bonds with extremely high precision.
The advance could eventually provide cleaner...
New Electronic Skin Could Help Robots and Prosthetic Limbs Feel Touch Before Contact
Scientists have developed a new type of electronic skin that can detect touch, pressure and even nearby objects, while allowing its sensitivity to be...
New Catalyst Uses 75% Less Platinum and Could Make Hydrogen Fuel Cells Cheaper
Scientists have developed a new catalyst that uses 75% less platinum while delivering almost the same performance as pure platinum, potentially removing one of...
Why Batteries Age Even When You’re Not Using Them
We usually think batteries wear out because we repeatedly charge and use them.
But batteries spend most of their lives doing nothing, and new research...
New Computer Processor Attack Exploits a Tiny Window Lasting Just Nanoseconds
Computer chipmakers have spent years strengthening processors against attacks that exploit the way modern CPUs predict what they will need to do next.
But MIT...
Scientists Use Ordinary Sunlight to Create Quantum Entanglement
Scientists have shown that sunlight can be used to create quantum entanglement, a surprising advance that could eventually help make quantum technologies more energy...
New 3D Printing Technique Creates Materials That Stretch or Shrink When Heated
Scientists have developed a new 3D printing technique that can create soft materials programmed to either stretch or shrink when heated.
The advance could eventually...
Fruit And Honey Fueled the Early Evolution of The Human Brain
Intelligence is an energetically expensive luxury – as the rise of artificial intelligence has reminded us. The human brain is no exception.
Comprising roughly 2%...
Your SIM Card Could Become a Hidden Door into Your Phone, Car or EV...
SIM cards are normally trusted parts of our phones and other connected devices.
But new research shows that if a SIM card is malicious or...
Dolphins Learn How to Use Tools to Hunt for Fish from Their Mothers
From spears and the invention of the wheel to smartphones and robots, human societies have been building and using tools from the beginning.
Human tool...
Scientists Find a Simpler Way to Build High-Performance Organic Lasers
Scientists in Finland have demonstrated the first fully solution-processed solid-state polariton laser, potentially opening a simpler and cheaper path toward advanced laser and photonic...
Once-Niche Math Theory Is Finding New Uses in Robots, Aircraft and Nanotechnology
A little-known branch of engineering mathematics is moving beyond theory and finding potential uses in everything from robots and aircraft to extremely small nanotechnology...
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Scientists find a simpler way to make some medicines
Chemists find a new way of creating the building blocks of many drugs.
Organic chemists at Ohio State University have figured out how to synthesize...
How simple mud could cut building costs and carbon emissions
Construction costs are rising, but researchers at MIT have found a way to make building with concrete cheaper and more environmentally friendly—by using mud.
They’ve...
Scientists develop carbon nanotube-based sensors for virus and bacteria detection
An interdisciplinary research team from Ruhr University Bochum (Germany), the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems, and ETH Zurich has developed a new...
Scientists catch a cosmic boomerang in action for the first time
For the first time, astronomers have observed a cosmic boomerang effect — streams of heavy, molecular gas that are stripped away from a distant...
Scientists create smart materials that “understand” light’s handedness
Scientists have developed a new type of semiconductor material that can do something unusual: it can tell the difference between left- and right-handed light...