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If it has carbon, this research team is interested in baking it to a crisp.

Spider silk is just amazing -- and now we can finally use it in clothes.

A new insulating material that's 50,000 times thinner than a sheet of paper could make electronics even more compact.

Size does matter.

The authors call this a "landmark achievement."

All of the bling, none of the volume.

A new way to produce electricity.

The device attaches itself to the throat like a temporary tattoo and can convert skin movements into sounds.

Scientists have devised a novel system that can recognize visual objects by bending light.

Cybernetic organisms are next?

A new polymer incorporated into Li-ion batteries could dramatically improve their performance.

It's as tough as industrial rubber, MIT researchers say.

BEEEE cause we can, that's why.

What do you get when you 3-D print cyanobacteria onto button mushrooms?

Researchers have created the fastest man-made rotor in the world, which they believe will help them study quantum mechanics.

So long, predator vision!

The research could inspire a novel class of microelectronics based on DNA.

The world is facing a water crisis. This novel technique not only provides freshwater but also an important building-block for ...

Rejoice, ye clumsy-fingered!

Smart clothing just got sleeker.

Spider silk in your ear? For once, that sounds like a good idea.

You could say these researchers took a faster road.

From fallen leaves to hi-tech electronics.

This magnet is just one atom thick.

Putting the world's growing food waste problem on wheels.

A new solution proposed by researchers in Germany and Spain is so elegant and effective that it might revolutionise water ...

A review of recent research found that an unexpected mixture could do wonders for bone regeneration and wound healing.

This is molecular surgery.

It was made from strands made of over 190 atoms coiled around a triple loop which crosses itself eight times.

MIT engineers have developed a fast, reliable and relatively cheap process through which they can print electronic surfaces.

Afterthoughts from one of the biggest, brightest science events of the year -- ESOF16.

This week, the city known for splitting the atom is the world's science capital.

This AFM is small, easy to use, and costs much less than many high-end AFMs.

Composite metal foam (CMF) is light, but strong -- it can even stop bullets!

Inspired to 'make tomorrow now', an industrious team of Saudi researchers baffled everyone by demonstrating an artificial skin made with ...

Researchers from Columbia Engineering and the Georgia Institute of Technology report the first experimental proof of piezoelectricity and the piezotronic ...

Stanford scientists have developed the first lithium-ion batteries that run normally, shut down when they start to overheat, and then ...

So, what's the future going to look like ten years from now? What's the next big thing? Genomics, big data, ...

There's three things every good alien movie needs, in my opinion: aliens, spaceships and tractor beams; so far, science hasn't ...

. According to Designer Carbon Materials - the only company in the world that manufactures this exotic material - it ...

Biologists have recently identified a new species of harvestman (daddy longlegs spider) near the town of Monjolos in Minas Gerais, ...

Research at the Queen's University Belfast has produced a major (and mind-bending) breakthrough, in the form of the first synthesized ...

Quantum computing is one of the future's transitional technologies destined to transform human society, along with advanced materials like graphene ...

Such materials combine the best properties of glass and metals into one amazing product.

This is the biggest news that no one seems to notice. Sunvault Energy and the Edison Power Company quietly announced ...

A study which combed through millions of research papers published over the span of a century measured their citations and ...

We see light every day, and yet, we don't truly understand it; it's either a particle or a wave, or ...

Some of the forms of carbon compounds are depicted against a depiction of a planetary nebula. Each pattern of carbon ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a material which is light like aluminum, but as strong as titanium ...

In today's world, silicon has few materials which actually contest its status as the king of electronics. However, that may ...