Cement and concrete haven't changed much as technology in over a hundred years, but researchers in Colorado are revolutionizing building materials by literal...
Bacteria and sand engineered into living concrete
Material developed which is heat-insulating and heat-conducting at the same time
Miniature double glazing
Quicker is not always better, especially when it comes to a 3D sensor in advanced technology. With applications in autonomous vehicles, robots and drones, se...
Slow light to speed up LiDAR sensors development
Magnetic liquid metals used to develop bacteria-destroying technology
Fighting drug-resistant superbugs with bacteria-shredding nanoparticles
A 50-year-old puzzle in statistical mechanics has been solved by an international team of researchers who have proved that two-dimensional (2D) liquids have ...
Physicists prove that 2D and 3D liquids are fundamentally different
Just like a chameleon changes its skin color in response to its environment, engineers have found a way for liquid metal - and potentially solid metal - to c...
Engineers develop 'chameleon metals' that change surfaces in response to heat
Method has ramifications for quantum computing, communications and more
Tuning optical resonators gives researchers control over transparency
A nanopore is a tiny hole in a thin membrane with a diameter of around a billionth of a meter, or about the width of a single DNA molecule. The potential app...
University of Ottawa tool to democratize nanopore research
Tiny 'xenobots' assembled from cells promise advances from drug delivery to toxic waste clean-up
The first living robots
Scientists established a new nanofabrication platform for directing nanomaterial components of different natures into 3-D arrays
Nano-objects of desire: Assembling ordered nanostructures in 3D
Graphene-based heterostructures of the van der Waals class could be used to design ultra-compact and low-energy electronic devices and magnetic memories. Thi...
Generation and manipulation of spin currents for advanced electronic devices
Researchers from NUS have synthesised the world’s first one-atom-thick amorphous material. Previously thought to be impossible, the discovery of monolayer am...
NUS scientists create world’s first monolayer amorphous film
Physicists in the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich and at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MP...
Laserphysics: At the pulse of a light wave
Proteins are often called the working molecules of the human body. A typical body has more than 20,000 different types of proteins, each of which are involve...
Deep learning, 3D technology to improve structure modeling, create better drugs
Metal-organic framework-based composites don't need liquid water to work
Nanomaterial fabric destroys nerve agents in battlefield-relevant conditions
Expected to be applied in various fields such as bio-diagnosis, smart skin, clothes, and livestock diagnosis
