3+ hour, 1+ min ago  (164+ words) Northwestern University chemists have built a material that begins as an ordinary yellow liquid and rearranges itself into a black gel whenever it absorbs energy. The change locks electrons inside a new structure that can hold them for months when…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (142+ words) Researchers have found a way to mix bacteria into plastic so the material works normally but then disappears entirely when triggered, nicknamed 'living plastics'. Engineers from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology started with polycaprolactone, a polymer already used in…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (146+ words) Scientists from MIT's Media Lab have developed extremely thin strands that wrap and unravel at the flip of an electric switch. They strikingly resemble your own muscles. When grouped together, they can generate significant force and movement, all while remaining…...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago  (142+ words) Australian researchers have pulled off something that quantum theory predicted but nobody had managed to actually observe in matter until now. Working with pairs of helium atoms, they captured the particles existing in two different locations simultaneously, their behavior frozen…...

4+ mon, 1+ day ago  (216+ words) Liquid oxygen is used in rockets and treated with care in laboratories, but it's not something that people think about in everyday life. Except for one maker who was interested as to why this was the case, so he decided…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (142+ words) A big pendulum hangs in Tom Stanton's workshop, ready to go. He heaves the weighted arm to one side, lets it go, and watches it swing for a long time thanks to the low friction bearings. This is a simple…...