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Spider silks are highly desired for their incredible tensile strengths and low densities, but have proved difficult to produce at scale until now. While researchers... Read More »

A Harvard University engineering team has created the first artificial material that achieves homeostasis-like internal balances. The teams' “SMARTS”... Read More »

Scientist from Kiel University and Hamburg University of Technology have created “Aerograhite”; a material with a density four times lower than the... Read More »

Scientists from Yale University have created what they call, “a paradigm-changing immunotherapeutic method for cancer therapy.” The Yale team’s new... Read More »

"While the body has a capacity to repair small defects in skeletal muscle, the only option for larger defects is to surgically move muscle from one part of the... Read More »

Researchers for North Carolina State University and ImagineOptix Corporation have developed a new technique for polarizing light that promises smaller, more efficient ... Read More »

Limited space and battery power has traditionally forced large amounts of energy-intensive RAM to be left out of smartphones and tablet computers -- but no more. Tel... Read More »

Despite the relatively sparse details on Google’s latest gadget, the glasses have already been called genius, stupid, a gimmick, and the future of technology... Read More »

University of Utah physicists have invented a new "spintronic" organic light-emitting diode or spin OLED that promises brighter, cheaper, and more efficient ... Read More »

Even under ideal circumstances, platinum-based fuel cells lose a quarter of the total energy in the conversion process. "Using platinum [as a fuel cell catalyst] ... Read More »

Blood clots, while useful for stopping bleeding, are bad news for the brain and heart. Even if a clot can be located it is hard to get rid of, and the blood thinners... Read More »

A novel system from MIT combines power harvested from light, heat, and vibrations for use with minute wireless monitoring devices. Because each energy capturing... Read More »

Friction is everywhere, and with the help of Georgia Tech researchers we are now a step closer to tapping into it for our electricity needs. While the principle of... Read More »

A recent study out of Rice University unifies two competing power laws, explaining the different behaviors of “short” vs “long” carbon... Read More »

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory has made a major breakthrough in understanding the structure of ferroelectric... Read More »

Typical commercial solar cells are not efficient enough for the research team lead by MIT postdoc Dörthe M. Eisele, so they’ve turned to mother nature for... Read More »

A University of Illinois teams’ simple advancement to microscope probe quality could dramatically improve imaging in fields ranging from nanotechnology to... Read More »

Pre Show It’s opening night and the show is about to begin. The performers are warming up, getting ready for the spectacle of a lifetime. Google, Amazon... Read More »

Moths’ eyes may seem an odd source of inspiration for technology but, they shouldn’t. The compound eyes of the moth are remarkably anti-reflective. Which... Read More »

Applied Materials just released a machine that promises to change solid state storage forever. The device, named the Centura Avatar Etch, has the ability to etch true ... Read More »