Scientists create new acoustic smart material inspired by shark skin
USC researchers create smart materials that can mimic electrical devices by triggering different responses to sound.
From the headphones we use to listen to our...
Drones can now scan terrain and excavations without human intervention
Drone pilots may become superfluous in the future.
New research from Aarhus University has allowed artificial intelligence to take over control of drones scanning and...
Layered solar cells gain highest power-conversion efficiencies to date
The future's getting brighter for solar power.
Researchers from CU Boulder have created a low-cost solar cell with one of the highest power-conversion efficiencies to...
New multi-material solar cells set new efficiency standard
Scientists create highly efficient and stable tandem solar cell, one of the best-performing reported to date.
Researchers from the University of Toronto Engineering and King...
Light-shrinking device could detect ultra-tiny substances
Engineers at the University of California San Diego and the University of California Berkeley have created light-based technology that can detect biological substances with...
This wearable device could hide its wearer no matter the weather
Researchers at the University of California San Diego developed a wearable technology that can hide its wearer from heat-detecting sensors such as night vision...
Graphene, perovskites, and silicon — an ideal tandem for efficient solar cells
Graphene Flagship researchers successfully combined graphene with tandem perovskite-silicon solar cells to achieve efficiencies of up to 26.3%.
Moreover, they envisioned a new manufacturing method...
How to make adhesives for electronics, vehicles, and construction tougher
Make them tougher by making them weaker.
That's the proposed solution from a Purdue University research team - well-known for its adhesive technology.
"We have been...
New water purifier sucks salt out of water like a mangrove tree
The mangrove tree survives in its subtropical habitat by efficiently converting the salty water of its environment into fresh water — an engineering feat...
Why superconductivity takes place in graphene
Graphene, a single sheet of carbon atoms, has many extreme electrical and mechanical properties.
Two years ago, researchers showed how two sheets laid on top...