Watch never-before-seen videos of an MIT-developed lubricant called LiquiGlide that makes anything–syrup, ketchup, paint–slide right out of the bottle so you don’t waste a... Read more
“Curtains made of this material could automatically open or close during the day.” Forget remote-controlled curtains. A new development by researchers at the University of California, Berkel... Read more
Duke Engineers Use Brute Force Computing to Find In the search for cheaper materials that mimic their purer, more expensive counterparts, researchers are abandoning hunches and intuition for... Read more
All good research breaks new ground, but rarely does the research unearth truths that challenge the foundation of a science. That’s what Artem R. Oganov has done, and the professor of theore... Read more
Researchers at the UPM have developed a carbonaceous material from sewage sludge that when applied to soil can help to improve its quality. The material is called biochar and was prepared an... Read more
University of Oregon chemist David C. Johnson likens his lab’s newly published accomplishments to combining two flavors of ice cream — vanilla and chocolate — and churning out thousand... Read more
When you squeeze something, it gets smaller. Unless you’re at Argonne National Laboratory. At the suburban Chicago laboratory, a group of scientists has seemingly defied the laws of physics... Read more
Tunable material system designed by Harvard team is easily adaptable for diverse applications in fuel transport, textiles, optical systems, and more Imagine a tent that blocks light on a dry... Read more
A new wonder material that can generate hydrogen, produce clean water and even create energy. Science fiction? Hardly, and there’s more – It can also desalinate water, be used as flexi... Read more
Valuable insights from the imitation of the skeleton of natural sea sponges Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P)... Read more