1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (18+ words) New recyclable resin from Yokohama National University allows for multiple reuse cycles in 3D printing without performance loss....

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (301+ words) Energy storage usually brings to mind batteries, capacitors, tanks of hydrogen, or maybe some giant gravity system hauling blocks up a tower. Northwestern University researchers have now demonstrated something a lot stranger: a yellow liquid that “charges” by rebuilding itself…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (318+ words) You know how rejuvenating a bath feels after a long day of work? Almost like you're renewed. Turns out that's not exclusive to humans. Scientists at Cornell University have developed an electrochemical bath that restores spent lithium batteries to nearly…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (798+ words) Cement has been a vital building block (pun intended) in constructing civilization. However, its manufacturing process has also made it a wrecking ball on the environment, with a carbon footprint that rivals that of the aviation industry. Scientists from the…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (313+ words) Living things degrade, die, and decompose. Even when we turn plant and animal material into furniture or clothes, the process is inevitable. On the other hand, left alone, plastics are practically indestructible. Scientists are rethinking this characteristic with a simple…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (281+ words) Methanol is a widely used chemical with diverse industrial and everyday applications. It's a vital ingredient for producing certain plastics and acids. It also serves as a clean-burning fuel for vehicles, marine vessels, and cooking stoves. Furthermore, it acts as…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (549+ words) The heated race to achieve the extreme cold that quantum technologies demand may have a frontrunner. Chinese scientists have developed an alloy that almost reaches absolute zero, the coldest possible temperature, without using the scarce isotope, helium-3. Other examples include…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago  (285+ words) A team at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems (IKTS) has developed a new type of sodium-ion battery that uses lignin as a key electrode material. Lignin is a natural polymer found in trees. It basically acts like…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (793+ words) By breaking the rules of atomic order, scientists have created MXenes unlike any seen before. Nine metals now share a single atom-thin sheet, their once-neat layers dissolved into a patchwork of possibility. The result could redefine how we design materials…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (298+ words) Data center servers, powerful smartphones, and your computer's motherboard have one thing in common. When these devices get too hot, their performance takes a hit, and we can't have that. That's why copper is used to manufacture them: this metal…...