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Mars MOXIE makes oxygen out of thin air
First-ever space habitat tech, experiment gives more than researchers expected. Not too dissimilar from Man's first Moon landing with a computer that by today's standards TI-83 calculators could... — Updated 9/19/2023 Full story
Upgrading First Solar with quantum dots
Joint development agreement for research into quantum dots for solar modules. Looking to evolve its already impressive proprietary cadmium-telluride thin-film solar technology, First Solar Inc. has... — Updated 8/31/2023
Ancient tech helps MIT make supercapacitor
Common cement and carbon black pave the way for a foundational tech for efficient future energy storage. Channeling the power of the ancients, a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced... — Updated 8/8/2023
A superconductive LK-99 controversy erupts
Possible Nobel Prize-winning invention has the wider science community in a frenzy; initial claims shrouded with skepticism. If you follow any kind of cutting-edge, pioneering, and borderline science... — Updated 8/1/2023 Full story
Liquid metal for flexible smart materials
Flexible technologies are emerging, from foldable smartphones to freeform public information displays, and Chinese researchers have made a discovery that could elevate this technology to the next level.... — Updated 7/26/2023
Cool upgrade to Purdue's whitest paint
In an effort to curb global warming, Purdue University researchers developed a cool solution – paint. But not just any paint, with what they believe to be the closest opposite of the blackest black,... — Updated 7/25/2023
Nanotechnology unlocks squid skin secrets
Taking inspiration from one of nature's most adaptive creatures, researchers from ACS Nano have explored the transformative qualities of squid skin to create a soft film that can regulate its transparency... — Updated 7/18/2023
Strontium titanate, some secrets revealed
A team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has discovered how subtle structural changes in strontium titanate, a metal oxide semiconductor, can alter the material's electrical... — Updated 6/8/2023 Full story
Researchers solve heat-to-electricity loss
200-year-old discovery offers breakthrough in thermoelectric sustainability. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and collaboration with the University of Colorado, have... — Updated 5/30/2023
Butterflies inspire world's lightest paint
Inspired by the wide variety of brilliant colors adorning the wings of butterflies, University of Central Florida researcher Debashis Chanda has created the world's lightest paint using two materials that... — Updated 5/16/2023 Full story
New self-healing soft robot material
Engineers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a soft polymer impregnated with gallium-indium liquid metal and silver micro-flakes to create a conductive material with self-healing properties.... — Updated 5/3/2023
Tighter hologram lights with nano zinc
Researchers out of China and Singapore have discovered that zinc oxide nanoparticles may be the secret to finally achieving high-resolution 3D holograms that are often promised in science fiction but yet... — Updated 4/25/2023
Scientists curve atoms in fabric of space
Throwing a curveball at the scientific community, an international team of researchers headed by the University of Geneva, Switzerland, has designed a quantum material that allows the control of electrons... — Updated 4/21/2023
Berkeley films first nano motion picture
Exploring the mysteries of copper, researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered yet another use for this "new oil" of the clean energy future – converting carbon dioxide and... — Updated 4/16/2023 Full story
A historic day for clean fusion energy
National Ignition Facility achieves landmark fusion energy breakeven. For the first time in history, scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility have achieved one... — Updated 4/16/2023 Full story
Researchers make first macro tractor beam
Chinese scientists' success crosses threshold that has opened way for grabbing tech. Despite their influence on science fiction and even the occasional conspiracy theory, tractor beams, in reality, have no... — Updated 1/25/2023
Let it snow zinc-gallium nanostructures!
Intricate, unique, and beautiful, snowflakes are a crystalline symbol of the wintery season that inspire wonder in children and inspiration for scientists in New Zealand that have managed to replicate... — Updated 12/20/2022 Full story
A new gold standard for antifog eyewear
Swiss researchers have developed a transparent gold nanocoating that vanquishes the perennial nemesis of glasses wearers – fogging. Unlike traditional antifogging methods, which uses hydrophilic... — Updated 12/13/2022
Nuclear fusion breakthrough confirmed
A major breakthrough in nuclear fusion has been confirmed by the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, little over a year since the lab successfully achieved... — Updated 8/26/2022
DOE offers $6M for alt coal use research
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management announced $6 million in funding toward research and development projects that will repurpose domestic coal resources for... — Updated 8/2/2022
Tuned magnetism for quantum components
Columbia University chemists and physicists recently found a link between tunable electronic magnetic properties in a 2D semiconductor that could potentially be applied to quantum computing, spintronics,... — Updated 7/12/2022
Diamonds are now a computers best friend
A company that specializes in jewelry has teamed up with researchers to create a mind-blowing storage breakthrough – the collaboration resulting in the manufacture of a two-inch diamond wafer intended... — Updated 7/12/2022 Full story
X-MAT earns more funding for coal research
The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management March 18 announced US$2.2 million in funding for research into new, clean uses for coal waste – primarily, to continue the... — Updated 7/12/2022
Caltech scientists make reverse refraction
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have created a nano-architected material that exhibits a property that was previously only theoretically possible – refract light backward,... — Updated 2/15/2022 Full story