For most of the solar industry’s modern history, progress has been framed as a story of physics. Higher efficiencies came ...

Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner ...

A new shape-shifting material can change both its texture and color in seconds, inspired by the camouflage abilities of ...

A team of scientists working across U.S. and international laboratories has synthesized a single molecule that can be flipped ...

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Researchers have revisited a long-known material and uncovered a way to dramatically enhance its performance by altering its ...

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A surprising property of rice has inspired the creation of a new class of engineered materials. Rice behaves in an unexpected way under pressure. When compressed quickly, it becomes weaker, but under ...

Materials scientists say they’ve taken nearly 300-year-old toxic waste—a stockpile of spherical lead bullets from the 16th ...

New York University (NYU) scientists uncovered a material that could help bring photonic computing a little closer to reality. Dubbed "gyromorphs," the material performs better than any other known ...

Scientists in the US have uncovered a rare quantum material capable of switching between ...