Nanoengineered solar steam generation devices

Engineers have created a new technological solution to the pressing global challenge of water scarcity by creating a suite of solar steam generation devices that are at once efficient, easily accessible, environmentally friendly, biodegradable, and extremely low cost.

New study is a step toward creating planes that travel at hypersonic speed

Air travel times could be drastically reduced by boron nitride nanotubes.

Breath instead of a blood test

Scientists have developed a method for the highly convenient, real-time monitoring of lipolysis by testing a person's exhalations during exercise.

Seeing the next dimension of computer chips

Researchers image perfectly smooth side-surfaces of 3-D silicon crystals with a scanning tunneling microscope, paving the way for smaller and faster computing devices.

Machine learning translates 'hidden' information to reveal chemistry in action

New method allows on-the-fly analysis of how catalysts change during reactions, providing crucial information for improving performance.

Spin-current generation gets mid-IR boost with plasmonic metamaterial

Scientists add plasmonic metamaterials to spintronic devices to enhance spin-current generation from the heat produced in the mid-infrared regime.

Silicon is liberated from Abbot's Flatland

Researchers have found a way to pack various laser-written structures deep inside silicon chips.

Missing atoms in a forgotten crystal bring luminescence

A little-studied member of the perovskite family of materials could find use in a range of electronic devices, after researchers discovered the secret of its strong photoluminescence.

A particle accelerator on a microchip

The largest particle accelerator in the world has a circumference of around 26 kilometres. Researchers are attempting to go to the other extreme by building the world's smallest machine of this kind - a particle accelerator that fits on a microchip.