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The small aquatic snail-like molluscs use a tongue bristling with tiny microscopic teeth to scrape food off rocks and into their mouths. These teeth contain a hard yet fl...
Acetone and isopropanol are important chemicals for industry. They are used to produce materials from jet fuel to solvents to detergents to plastics. Currently, industry...
Steel is one of the strongest materials found on earth and is widely used for construction. But on its own, the durability of steel is poor. Galvanizing steel increases i...
In Science Magazine, TU/e researchers publish tier research on new phase transitions of solutions and gels in water, which instinctively go against the basic principles o...
An international team of researchers, led by scientists at the University of Manchester, has developed a fast and economical method of converting methane, or natural gas,...
Finding a lost wallet buried under a pile of items is pretty straightforward — we simply remove things from the pile until we find the wallet. But for a robot, this task...
Imagine a future when electric vehicles can travel thousands of miles on a single charge, and cargo ships and passenger planes run on batteries instead of fossil fuels. T...
A team of Florida State University researchers has uncovered a way to use low-energy light to manipulate photopolymers or plastic films — a finding that has implications...
The first report of room temperature ferroelectricity in bulk hafnia could extend Moore’s Law for data storage. Ferroelectric materials are substances with spontaneous el...
LUSIX, a prime grower of lab-grown diamonds (LGDs), has unveiled its Sun Grown Diamonds™, revealing that its entire diamond growing operation is now 100% solar pow...
Experts at the University of Bristol have discovered that the scales on moth wings act as excellent sound absorbers even when placed on an artificial surface. The researc...
The long-standing challenges to the practical implementation of rechargeable zinc-air batteries (ZABs) are the electrochemical irreversibility of the Zn anode and degrada...
Researchers at the University of Queensland have found a species of worm with an appetite for polystyrene could be the key to plastic recycling on a mass scale. Scientist...
As electronic, thermoelectric and computer technologies have been miniaturized to nanometre scale, engineers have faced a challenge studying fundamental properties of the...
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have uncovered critical new details about fusion facilities that use lasers to compress...
printing has opened exciting new avenues for engineers and forced product designers to reimagine what is possible. The ability to print complex metallic parts using advan...
A chemical reaction that causes concrete to crack and deteriorate can now be identified without harm, according to Argonne scientists. Although they are built to last for...
Researchers at the Clemson Nanomaterials Institute (CNI) and their collaborators from the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (SSSIHL) in India discovered a novel...
A novel approach to rubber recycling could see end-of-life tyres repurposed into concrete for residential constructions as new research from the University of South Austr...
A first-of-its-kind study led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers reveals why liquid droplets have the ability to erode hard surfaces. The discovery could...
A research team has uncovered new clues into the exotic behaviour of unconventional superconductors – devices that efficiently carry electrical current with zero resistan...
Artificial intelligence advances how scientists explore materials. Researchers from Ames Laboratory and Texas A&M University trained a machine-learning (ML) model to...
Plastic waste can be upcycled into novel materials for capturing CO2 gas, but most demonstrations have only been done in laboratories. In a recent study, scientists demon...
A team of Johns Hopkins University researchers created a shock-absorbing material that protects like a metal, but is lighter, stronger, reusable. The new foam-like materi...
In one of the grand challenges of science, a Flinders University device which previously ‘unboiled’ egg protein is now unravelling the mystery of incompatible fluids; a d...
A team of scientists from LanzaTech, Northwestern University and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed carbon capture technology that ha...
As unlikely as it sounds, a simple tooth could play a significant role in the world’s clean energy future. Dental enamel has unique properties that make it both rigid and...
For more than 60 years, scientists have sought to understand and control the process of fusion, a quest to harness the vast amounts of energy released when nuclei in fuel...
Using a novel polymerization process, MIT chemical engineers have created a new material that is stronger than steel and as light as plastic, and can be easily manufactur...
When water boils, it converts into another phase, steam. Such transitions are commonplace in nature and frequently studied in scientific laboratories. One of particular i...
Metal alloys are materials that contain two or more atomic metal elements. They often have one primary element and smaller amounts of other elements. Scientists recently...
The design of new materials allows for either improved efficiency of known applications or totally new applications that were out of reach with the previously existing ma...
The climate crisis requires ramping up usage of renewable energy sources like solar and wind, but with intermittent availability, scalable energy storage is a challenge....
Researchers at the University of Bristol, UK, have developed high-performance sodium and potassium ion batteries using sustainably sourced cellulose. Scientists at the Br...
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory designed a novel polymer to bind and strengthen silica sand for binder jet additive manufacturing,...
A new generation of electronics and optoelectronics may soon be possible by controlling twist angles in a particular type of bilayer 2D material used in these devices, st...
The concrete world that surrounds us owes its shape and durability to chemical reactions that start when ordinary Portland cement is mixed with water. Now, MIT scientists...
Advanced metal alloys are essential in key parts of modern life, from cars to satellites, from construction materials to electronics. But creating new alloys for specific...
Scientists from the University of Southampton have invented a hybrid catalyst platform that can efficiently and sustainably convert carbon dioxide into versatile plastic...
If it can’t be grown (or fished) it has to be mined, and almost everything we use in everyday life has been mined. Material for batteries, mobile phones and wind farms al...
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