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...

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...

Do you know how your phone or computer sometimes gets hot when you use it a lot? Imagine if it got so hot that...

Researchers found that wings that can morph in continuous 3D shapes could help keep drones stable in gusts of wind and perhaps help them...

Researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València and the tech company iPRONICS have created a groundbreaking photonic chip that promises to revolutionize telecommunications, data...

Have you ever wondered if our bodies could store digital information like a computer? Amazingly, scientists from the National University of Singapore, led by Associate...

In the quest for greener energy solutions, researchers have made a groundbreaking advancement in solar technology. They've developed a new method for producing high-quality perovskite...