- This sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaceson May 7, 2024 at 7:24 pm
Researchers developed a silk fabric, which is barely thicker than a human hair, that can suppress unwanted noise and reduce noise transmission in a large room.
- 'Better than graphene' material development may improve implantable technologyon May 7, 2024 at 7:01 pm
Move over, graphene. There's a new, improved two-dimensional material in the lab. Borophene, the atomically thin version of boron first synthesized in 2015, is more conductive, thinner, lighter, stronger and more flexible than graphene, the 2D version of carbon. Now, researchers have made the material potentially more useful by imparting chirality -- or handedness -- on it, which could make for advanced sensors and implantable medical devices.
- Low-energy process for high-performance solar cellson May 7, 2024 at 7:00 pm
Finding reliable, eco-friendly power sources is crucial as our world grapples with increasing energy needs and the urgent call to combat climate change. Solar energy offers one solution, with scientists devising ever more efficient materials for capturing sunlight.
- Genetics, not lack of oxygen, causes cerebral palsy in quarter of caseson May 7, 2024 at 7:00 pm
The world's largest study of cerebral palsy (CP) genetics has discovered genetic defects are most likely responsible for more than a quarter of cases in Chinese children, rather than a lack of oxygen at birth as previously thought.
- New super-pure silicon chip opens path to powerful quantum computerson May 7, 2024 at 7:00 pm
Researchers have invented a breakthrough technique for manufacturing highly purified silicon that brings powerful quantum computers a big step closer.
- Caterbot? Robatapillar? It crawls with ease through loops and bendson May 6, 2024 at 7:15 pm
Engineers created a catapillar-shaped robot that splits into segments and reassembles, hauls cargo, and crawls through twisting courses.
- Venus has almost no water: A new study may reveal whyon May 6, 2024 at 5:16 pm
Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored as much water as Earth. Today, almost all of it has disappeared. A new study may help to explain why.
- Participants of pioneering CRISPR gene editing trial see vision improveon May 6, 2024 at 5:15 pm
About 79% of clinical trial participants experienced measurable improvement after receiving experimental, CRISPR-based gene editing that is designed to fix a rare form of blindness, according to a new article.
- Astronomers observe elusive stellar light surrounding ancient quasarson May 6, 2024 at 5:15 pm
Astronomers observed the elusive starlight surrounding some of the earliest quasars in the universe. The findings may shed light on how the earliest supermassive black holes became so massive despite having a relatively short amount of cosmic time in which to grow.
- New discoveries about Jupiter's magnetosphereon May 6, 2024 at 5:15 pm
New discoveries about Jupiter could lead to a better understanding of Earth's own space environment and influence a long-running scientific debate about the solar system's largest planet.