Technology and Engineering

Mechanical metamaterials promise tougher, lighter materials—but designing them has been slow because fracture is governed by mechanisms that span many...

Duke of the first immune responders is being rewritten by new work showing that not all neutrophils behave like rubble...

A new analysis of geomagnetic storm “saturation” challenges a long-held idea in space weather research: that the solar wind energy...

Researchers have pushed twistronics beyond the familiar world of stacked 2D materials held together by weak van der Waals forces....

Chronic diseases are rising worldwide, yet most health monitoring still happens in hospitals—sporadically, with bulky, wired devices that capture only...

A ketogenic diet (KD) is often promoted for lowering blood insulin and shifting metabolism toward ketone bodies. Yet how this...

Tissue engineering has long promised to rebuild damaged organs and tissues, but one stubborn barrier remains: reliable vasculature. Without a...

UMass Amherst engineer Chang Liu is advancing a home HIV diagnostic that aims to match or surpass laboratory sensitivity during...

Thiophosphate linkages are increasingly valued as metabolic-stability-enhancing replacements for natural phosphate groups, enabling longer-lived chemistry in therapeutic contexts. Their use...

A new neuroimaging study is adding fresh detail to how global developmental delay (GDD) may reshape the developing brain. Affecting...