Scientists at University of Stuttgart have discovered a completely new type of magnetism in materials that are only a few atoms thick. Working with international...

Most seating furniture isn’t made to last. Chairs and benches are often difficult to take apart, awkward to move, and easy to damage. After just one...

One of the biggest challenges facing renewable energy is timing. Wind turbines and solar panels often produce electricity when it is not immediately needed. A...

Medical imaging plays a critical role in diagnosing diseases of the brain, but reading and interpreting brain scans is a complex and time‑consuming task. Today,...

Robots are usually built from materials with fixed properties. Once a robot is assembled, its stiffness, flexibility and movement patterns are largely locked in. Engineers at...

Lithium-ion batteries power everything from smartphones to electric cars, but they rely on materials that raise environmental and ethical concerns. Metals like nickel and cobalt...

The plastic bottle you toss into the recycling bin today might one day help hold up the floor of a house. Engineers at MIT are...

growing role. Both fuels are mainly made of methane, which burns more cleanly than coal or oil and is widely used for heating, electricity generation...

Optical fiber quietly powers much of the modern world. It carries internet traffic across oceans and cities with astonishing efficiency, letting light travel kilometers with...

Most synthetic materials are made to do just one or two things. Once they are created, their properties rarely change. A research team at Penn...

From medical implants to soft robots, many emerging technologies need power sources that are flexible, safe, and able to work inside or near living...

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have demonstrated a surprising new way to compute—by using heat instead of electricity. In a proof-of-concept study published in...

In the world of material science, a researcher named Christiaan Van Campenhout has stumbled upon a simple and low-cost way to create a high-tech...

In a world that's rapidly embracing smart technology, from the cars we drive to the farms where our food grows, there's a growing need...

For centuries, regulations of the legal profession have made it clear there can't be an engagement in legal practice by unqualified entities. In other words,...

Reshaping the exterior of heavy vehicles, such as semitrucks, so that they are aerodynamically integrated along their entire length in a smooth, continuous fashion...

Researchers have developed a lightweight, powerful fluidic engine that can drive muscle-mimicking soft robots for assistive devices. This innovative engine can generate significant force without...