Inspired by a pond microorganism that retracts its spiral stalk using geometry alone, soft gel helices now wind and unwind on their own to amplify motion.

Neurons placed inside engineered living bodies built from frog cells self-organize, become active, and reshape movement ...

An AI-powered toolkit automatically extracts and quantifies microstructural features from microscopy images, accelerating ...

Hollow graphene aerogel fibers mimicking polar bear hair achieve record-low thermal conductivity and high electrical ...

A new crystal-seeding method boosts the efficiency and scalability of perovskite solar cells, advancing this promising ...

Lab architecture used to test 2D semiconductors artificially boosts performance metrics, making it harder to assess whether these materials can truly replace silicon.

Researchers demonstrate that femtosecond laser-induced transient Pauli blocking can achieve ultrafast, broadband optical ...

A pore smaller than one nanometer reads peptide sequences amino acid by amino acid, pinpointing single-site Alzheimer's ...

If utilized on the lunar surface, the material may help build sturdy, nontoxic habitats and tools for future astronauts, capabilities that would be vital to the NASA Artemis missions that aim to ...

Liquid metal droplets fuse themselves into stretchable circuits at room temperature, driven only by surface tension gradients during solvent evaporation.

Chemical engineers have found a way to fabricate film-thin membranes imbued with super strength that could extend the durability of decarbonisation technologies.

Erasable electric fields written by laser light onto crystal surfaces can trap, align, and release living cells without ...