Built-in vibration control could help soundproof walls or vehicles
A different kind of design for absorbing vibrations could help better soundproof walls and make vehicles more streamlined, a new study shows.
The study tested...
What makes an Olympic swimming pool super fast?
It’s not just fit, strong, and elite athletes competing at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo that make a swimming pool fast.
Structural engineering and...
Scientists create new mosquito bite-proof clothing with textile materials
Researchers at North Carolina State University have created insecticide-free, mosquito-resistant clothing using textile materials they confirmed as bite-proof in experiments with live mosquitoes.
They developed...
New material could help produce cheaper, better all-solid-state lithium batteries
Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) have designed a novel material to make all-solid-state lithium (Li) batteries less costly...
Bird’s-eye view could be key to navigating without GPS
A bird’s-eye view may take on new meaning thanks to Army-funded research.
Scientists found that a protein in bird’s retinas is sensitive to the Earth’s...
This soft skin patch could provide early warning for strokes, heart attacks
In a new study from the University of California San Diego, researchers have developed a soft and stretchy ultrasound patch that can be worn...
This special graphene may be a rare, magnet-proof superconductor, shows study
MIT physicists have observed signs of a rare type of superconductivity in a material called “magic-angle” twisted trilayer graphene.
In a study appearing in Nature,...
Scientists create world’s thinnest magnet
A one-atom thin 2D magnet could advance new applications in computing and electronics.
The development of an ultrathin magnet that operates at room temperature could...
Scientists develop more robust memory device for artificial intelligence systems
A research team at Northwestern University and the University of Messina in Italy has developed a new magnetic memory device that could lead to...
Engineers 3D printed a soft robotic hand that can play Nintendo
A team of researchers from the University of Maryland has 3D printed a soft robotic hand that is agile enough to play Nintendo's Super...