Custom-fabricated lenses make it easy to attach high-tech microscopes directly to cell incubators. An optical device that resembles a miniaturized lighthouse lens can make it…
Efficient greenhouse complexes that will grow crops using the resources available on desert coasts could improve food security for millions. Emerging technologies can be harnessed…
Understanding any similarities between SARS and COVID-19 inflammation could help in a clinical setting. A protein in the viruses causing COVID-19 and SARS is almost…
Aquatic internet that sends data through light beams could enable divers to instantly transmit footage from under the sea to the surface. The internet is…
Chaos could help put cyberhackers out of business with a patterned silicon chip that will be uncrackable even in the future. Confidential data—including credit card…
Customizable magnetic iron nanowires pinpoint and track the movements of target cells. Living cells inside the body could be placed under surveillance—their location and migration…
Researchers create highly efficient and stable tandem solar cell, one of the best-performing reported to date. Researchers from the University of Toronto Engineering and King…
Materials that can slow the cooling of highly energetic hot carriers could capture extra energy from the Sun. Two-dimensional solar materials may offer a way…
Combining silicon with a highly elastic polymer backing produces solar cells that have record-breaking stretchability and high efficiency. Crystalline silicon solar panels could be just…
Discarded PET bottles could find a new life in the chemical industry. In a world that seems to be drowning in plastic bottles, recycling this…
International team of marine scientists complete six-year whale shark study The study uses a novel combination of several monitoring techniques, including state-of-the-art acoustic and satellite…
A magnetic skin that is safe and comfortable to wear could open the door to a wide range of wireless, remotely controlled applications. Who has…
No evidence of infection found in the bacterial community around shark wounds. A survey of the shark skin microbiome provides the first step toward understanding…
When a thin layer of water is squeezed between two hydrophobic surfaces, the laws of classical physics break down. From raindrops rolling off the waxy…
Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) are officially one-step closer to understanding the brain and its function. Dr. Corrado Calì, a…