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...

Sodium-ion batteries are attracting growing attention as a greener and more affordable alternative to today’s lithium-ion batteries. Sodium is abundant, widely available, and cheaper than...

After a nuclear or radiological accident, knowing who has been exposed to radiation—and how much—can save lives. But traditional ways of measuring radiation dose usually...

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women worldwide. For decades, mammography screening has been one of the most important tools...

Engineers at McGill University have developed a new class of ultra-thin, shape-shifting materials that can move, fold, and reconfigure themselves—much like animated origami. The breakthrough...

As cities around the world struggle with rising energy demand, controlling heat from sunlight has become a major challenge. A large portion of the heat...

Engineers at the University of California, Irvine have created a new wireless transceiver that can send and receive data at speeds comparable to fiber-optic...

A team led by Cornell University has created a new technology that could help solve two major global problems at the same time: clean...

As solar power and wind power become more important in the world electricity supply, people look for reliable and cheap ways to store energy. Recently,...

Chemists at the University of Bonn (Germany) have synthesized extremely unusual compounds. Their central building block is a silicon atom. Different from usual, however, is the...

Engineers at UC Riverside have unveiled an air-powered computer memory that can be used to control soft robots. The innovation overcomes one of the biggest...

Autoimmune diseases, where the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy cells and tissues, often show warning signs before diagnosis. These signs, such as mild symptoms...