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New phase-changing material can regulate temperatures inside buildings

Changing climate patterns have left millions of people vulnerable to weather extremes. As temperature fluctuations become more commonplace around the world, conventional power-guzzling cooling and...

Unique neuron can guide our way home by turning compasses into a gyroscope

Finding our way home from work or school is something most of us take for granted. Persons with Alzheimer’s disease, however, can get lost even...

Insect-sized robot could solve Lego maze in seconds

Many insects and spiders get their uncanny ability to scurry up walls and walk upside down on ceilings with the help of specialized sticky...

This programmable fiber could transmit data from military uniforms

Scientists have developed new programmable fiber that could transmit data from military uniforms. Researchers at the Army’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at the Massachusetts Institute...

Scientists develop a sweat-proof electronic skin

MIT engineers and researchers in South Korea have developed a sweat-proof “electronic skin” — a conformable, sensor-embedded sticky patch that monitors a person’s health...

Scientists develop the world’s tiniest technology

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have engineered the world's tiniest technology, with a thickness of only two atoms. According to the researchers, the new technology...

Scientists find solution to the sudden death common to the batteries

Researchers have increased the lifetime of a promising electric vehicle battery to a record level, an important step toward the goal of lighter, less...

Scientists develop new metasurface that allows unprecedented laser control

The ability to precisely control the various properties of laser light is critical to much of the technology that we use today, from commercial...

This pop-up coffee table does not require assembly

Deployable structures -- objects that transition from a compact state to an expanded one -- are used everywhere from backyards to Mars. But as anyone...

How to make lithium-ion batteries invincible

In our future electrified world, the demand for battery storage is projected to be enormous, reaching to upwards of 2 to 10 terawatt-hours (TWh)...