Sculpted light could control chemical catalysts, shows Stanford study
Like a person breaking up a cat fight, the role of catalysts in a chemical reaction is to hurry up the process - and...
Inspired by kombucha tea, engineers create living materials
Engineers at MIT and Imperial College London have developed a new way to generate tough, functional materials using a mixture of bacteria and yeast...
How to keep drones flying when a motor fails
As anxious passengers are often reassured, commercial aircrafts can easily continue to fly even if one of the engines stops working.
But for drones with...
This two-sided solar cell could collect scattered light to gather more energy
To increase the performance of solar panels, scientists have created a bifacial, or two-sided, tandem solar cell, built by bringing together the best of...
3D-printed smart gel changes shape when exposed to light
Inspired by the color-changing skin of cuttlefish, octopuses and squids, Rutgers engineers have created a 3D-printed smart gel that changes shape when exposed to...
This portable device can quickly detect plant stress
Researchers at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) and Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) have designed a portable optical sensor that can...
Scientists create wrinkly, stretchy energy devices with 4D printing
Researchers have created stretchable supercapacitors using a specialized printing technology, innovative materials, and the centuries-old art of origami.
Developing these kinds of malleable energy devices...
Scientists find faster, greener way to produce carbon spheres
A fast, green and one-step method for producing porous carbon spheres, which are a vital component for carbon capture technology and for new ways...
Scientists find new way to improve glass for fiber optics
Rapid, accurate communication worldwide is possible via fiber optic cables, but as good as they are, they are not perfect.
Now, researchers from Penn State...
These wireless, ultra-thin and battery-free strain sensors are 10 times more sensitive
Scientists create a new range of nanomaterial strain sensors that are 10 times more sensitive when measuring minute movements, compared to existing technology.
This is...