Small poke - huge unexpected response

Exotic material exhibits an optical response in enormous disproportion to the stimulus - larger than in any known crystal.

Sniffing out the foundational science of sensors

Studying how to make and combine cutting-edge materials is leading to cheaper, more efficient, and more sensitive gaseous sensors.

Making shiny pellets of graphite from functionalized graphene (w/video)

Researchers use mechano-chemical process to make strong, lightweight material.

Electric textile lights a lamp when stretched

Researchers have developed a fabric that converts kinetic energy into electric power. The greater the load applied to the textile and the wetter it becomes the more electricity it generates.

Electric textile lights a lamp when stretched

Researchers have developed a fabric that converts kinetic energy into electric power. The greater the load applied to the textile and the wetter it becomes the more electricity it generates.

Golden touch: Next-gen optical disk to solve data storage challenge (w/video)

New technology offer cost-efficient and sustainable solution to global data storage challenge, while enabling the pivot from Big Data to Long Data and opening new realms of scientific discovery.

In field tests, device harvests water from desert air

The new device could provide drinking water even in extremely arid locations.

Can objects feel one another before touching?

Scientists have found out the mechanisms whereby two objects feel each other before 'touching' and the characteristics of the contact between their first atoms.

Scientists control molecular alignment on a graphene surface

Researchers have developed a simple way to align molecules in one direction on a flat graphene surface. Efficiently controlling molecular alignment is expected to lead to significant progress in surface chemistry and molecular engineering, as well as materials science.