A new lightweight concrete made from coal ash, discarded polystyrene packaging and seawater has achieved the unusual combination of structural...

A hybrid nanomaterial that combines gallium nitride, iron oxide and the electrically active polymer polypyrrole has shown an unusually wide...

A Humpback Whale–Inspired Propeller Design Could Make Drones Quieter and More Efficient A small change to the leading edge of...

A new data-driven approach could help automated cars take rural curves in ways that feel more natural to human passengers....

A robot dog has learned to imagine parts of the world it cannot see—and that ability could help autonomous machines...

The lithium-metal battery has long been regarded as the ultimate prize in rechargeable energy storage: lithium is exceptionally light, and...

A new class of implantable bioelectronics could make one of the most frustrating problems in medical-device care visible from outside...

A quantum-optics technique first developed to measure the apparent sizes of stars has been repurposed to reveal how tiny materials...

A fish fin can lose a substantial portion of its skeletal structure and still rebuild itself to remarkably precise proportions....

Nanoplastics may be almost impossible to see, but that does not make them biologically insignificant. Particles smaller than a micrometre...