A new material bends to follow the sun. Rods made from it could soak up far more of the sun’s light than ordinary solar collectors.
A new device uses the temperature difference between Earth and outer space to create electricity after dark. Powering a lamp, it would be the ultimate night light.
Inspired by snail slime, scientists have created the first super-strong adhesive that can be easily become unstuck, when necessary.
Today’s lithium-ion batteries power everything from smartphones to computers. Three scientists who pioneered those batteries just got the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
What’s the right mix of materials to blow big bubbles that stretch without popping? Physicists have turned up the solution.
A soft robotic hand gently catches jellyfish by trapping the creatures within its silicone fingers.
The atoms or molecules in crystals take on a particular, repeatable pattern.
The movie Ad Astra shows a space antenna, a spindly structure reaching up into the stars. We look at what it would take to build something that big.
A ring-shaped carbon molecule takes its place among buckyballs, carbon nanotubes and other odd forms of the element.