Contact lens design for presbyopia (March 14, 2016)  Making the most of the low light in the muddy rivers where it swims, the eleph...

Associate professor Andrea Alù and his team have designed a non-reciprocal antenna that can independently control incoming and outgoi...

A terahertz lens Researchers have used an array of stacked plates to make a lens for terahertz radiation. The technique could set s...

(March 14, 2016)  METHOD TURNS GLASS FROM CLEAR TO OPAQUE WITH THE FLICK OF A SWITCH Say goodbye to blinds. Researchers at t...

In this time-lapse series of photos, progressing from top to bottom, a coating of sucrose (ordinary sugar) over a wire made of carbon...

(March 14, 2016)  New social robot from MIT helps students learn through personalized interactions Parents want the best for thei...

  A powdery mixture of graphene-wrapped magnesium nanocrystals, produced at Berkeley Lab, is stable in air. The mixture’s energy pro...

Dr Lu (left) with student Jiong Yang, with the lens on screen. Image Stuard Hay, ANU (March 11, 2016)  Scientists have created the ...

(March 11, 2016)  Researchers at the Laboratory for Organic Electronics at LiU, with Professor Xavier Crispin in the lead, have creat...

The drug molecules (red) are embedded in a water-filled cavity inside of the phopholipid vesicle. (March 11, 2016)  Liposomes are...

(March 11, 2016)  HARVARD RESEARCHERS DESIGN 3­D MATERIAL WITH CONTROLLABLE SHAPE AND SIZE Imagine a house that could fit in a ba...

(March 11, 2016)  A new study out of the University of Alberta shows vibration technology could help doctors find out what’s shaking ...

A schematic shows a trioxacarcin C molecule, whose structure was revealed for the first time through a new process developed by the R...

In a recently published article in Science, Prof. Roberto Morandotti and his team demonstrate the generation of complex entangled qua...

Six years ago, the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory answered a bold call by the scientific community: Buil...

(March 10, 2016)  VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd has developed new technology that takes care of the thermal, moisture...

Vibrations of atoms in materials, the "phonons", are responsible for how electric charge and heat is transported in materi...

Chemistry graduate student Aanindeeta Banerjee and Assistant Professor Matthew Kanan have developed a novel way to make renewable pla...

Eciton burchellii ants, among the above-ground species that appeared to regrow the parts of the brain used for sight. (March 9, ...

Researchers investigated the memory of the model bacteria Caulobacter crescentus. (Photograph: Wikipedia) (March 8, 2016)  Indivi...