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June 3, 2025

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Researchers Develop Recyclable, Healable Electronics

June 2, 2025 — Electronics often get thrown away after use because recycling them requires extensive work for little payoff. Researchers have now found a way to change the ...

Engineers Develop Self-Healing Muscle for Robots

May 30, 2025 — Students recently unveiled their invention of a robotic actuator -- the 'muscle' that converts energy into a robot's physical movement -- that has the ability to detect punctures or pressure, heal the injury and repair its damage-detecting ...

Laser Technique Revolutionizes Ultra-High Temperature Ceramic Manufacturing for Space, Defense Applications

May 29, 2025 — Researchers have demonstrated a new technique that uses lasers to create ceramics that can withstand ultra-high temperatures, with applications ranging from nuclear power technologies to spacecraft ...

New Chiral Photonic Device Combines Light Manipulation With Memory

May 28, 2025 — Engineers have developed a multifunctional, reconfigurable component for an optical computing system that could be a game changer in ...

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Quantum Eyes on Energy Loss: Diamond Quantum Imaging for Next-Gen Power Electronics

May 23, 2025 — Diamond quantum sensors can be used to analyze the magnetization response of soft magnetic materials used in power electronics; report scientists ...

A Rule-Breaking, Colorful Silicone That Could Conduct Electricity

May 22, 2025 — A newly discovered silicone variant is a semiconductor, researchers have discovered -- upending assumptions that the material class is exclusively ...

Developing a Pressure-Induced Water Producing Material

May 22, 2025 — Researchers have discovered a phenomenon -- applying pressure to a copper-chromium Prussian blue analog, which is a compound featuring crystal voids, causes the discharge of water retained within ...

Mind the Band Gap! -- Researchers Create New Nanoscale Forms of Elementary Semiconductor With Tunable Electronic Properties

May 21, 2025 — Researchers have demonstrated that by using a semiconductor with flexible bonds, the material can be moulded into various structures using nano ...

Researchers Make Breakthrough in Semiconductor Technology Set to Supercharge 6G Delivery

May 22, 2025 — Self-driving cars which eliminate traffic jams, getting a healthcare diagnosis instantly without leaving your home, or feeling the touch of loved ...

Scientists Discover Class of Crystals With Properties That May Prove Revolutionary

May 21, 2025 — Researchers have discovered a new class of materials -- called intercrystals -- with unique electronic properties that could power future ...

Forgotten Property of the Electron

May 20, 2025 — The orbital angular momentum of electrons has long been considered a minor physical phenomenon, suppressed in most crystals and largely overlooked. Scientists have now discovered that in certain ...

Resistance Is Futile: Superconducting Diodes Are the Future

May 15, 2025 — Researchers have discovered the mechanism for supercurrent rectification, in which current flows primarily in one direction in a superconductor. By using a specific iron-based superconductor, they ...

May 16, 2025 — Molecules like DNA are capable of storing large amounts of data without requiring an energy source, but accessing this molecular data is expensive and time consuming. Researchers have now developed ...

New Microscope Reveals Heat Flow in Materials for Green Energy

May 8, 2025 — Scientists have developed a new microscope that significantly improves the way heat flow in materials can be measured. This advancement could lead to better designs for electronic devices and energy ...

Stability Solution Brings Unique Form of Carbon Closer to Practical Application

May 9, 2025 — Carbyne, a one-dimensional chain of carbon atoms, is incredibly strong for being so thin, making it an intriguing possibility for use in next-generation electronics, but its extreme instability made ...

Turning Non-Magnetic Materials Magnetic With Atomically Thin Films

May 8, 2025 — The rules about magnetic order may need to be rewritten. An international team of researchers found that it was possible to turn a non-magnetic material into a magnetic material by slicing it into ...

Eco-Friendly Aquatic Robot Is Made from Fish Food

May 8, 2025 — An edible robot leverages a combination of biodegradable fuel and surface tension to zip around the water's surface, creating a safe -- and nutritious -- alternative to environmental monitoring ...

Vapor-Deposited Perovskite Semiconductors Power Next Generation Circuits

May 6, 2025 — A research team has developed a groundbreaking technology poised to revolutionize next-generation displays and electronic ...

Ultra-Thin Bismuth Holds Unexpected Promise for Green Electronics

May 6, 2025 — Electronic devices rely on materials whose electrical properties change with temperature, making them less stable in extreme conditions. A discovery that challenges conventional wisdom in physics ...

Robotic Touch Sensors Are Not Just Skin Deep

May 5, 2025 — Researchers argue that the problem that has been lurking in the margins of many papers about touch sensors lies in the robotic skin ...

'Cold' Manufacturing Approach to Make Next-Gen Batteries

May 2, 2025 — Lithium-ion batteries have been a staple in device manufacturing for years, but the liquid electrolytes they rely on to function are quite unstable, leading to fire hazards and safety concerns. Now, ...

Engineers Advance Toward a Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer

Apr. 30, 2025 — Researchers demonstrated extremely strong nonlinear light-matter coupling in a quantum circuit. Stronger coupling enables faster quantum readout and operations, ultimately improving the accuracy of ...

Engineer Reinvents Ceramics With Origami-Inspired 3D Printing

Apr. 23, 2025 — In a breakthrough that blends ancient design with modern materials science, researchers have developed a new class of ceramic structures that can bend under pressure -- without ...

Engineers Print Synthetic 'Metamaterials' That Are Both Strong and Stretchy

Apr. 23, 2025 — Engineers have fabricated a metamaterial that is not only strong but also stretchy. Their new method could enable stretchable ceramics, glass, and metals, for tear-proof textiles or stretchy ...

Scientists Have Found a Way to 'Tattoo' Tardigrades

Apr. 23, 2025 — If you haven't heard of a tardigrade before, prepare to be wowed. These clumsy, eight-legged creatures, nicknamed water bears, are about half a millimeter long and can survive practically ...

New Electronic 'Skin' Could Enable Lightweight Night-Vision Glasses

Apr. 23, 2025 — Engineers developed a technique to grow and peel ultrathin 'skins' of electronic material that could be used in applications such as night-vision eyewear and autonomous driving in foggy ...

Crystal Clear Design for High-Performance Flexible Thermoelectric Semiconductor

Apr. 23, 2025 — Researchers have identified a new material which could be used as a flexible semiconductor in wearable devices by using a technique that focuses on the manipulation of spaces between atoms in ...

Researchers Demonstrate New Class of Quantum Materials That Are Both Metallic and One-Dimensional

Apr. 17, 2025 — A study has found a rare form of one-dimensional quantum magnetism in a metallic compound, offering evidence into a phase space that has remained, until now, largely theoretical. The study comes at a ...

A Cool Fix for Hot Chips: Advanced Thermal Management Technology for Electronic Devices

Apr. 17, 2025 — Researchers have demonstrated a significant performance increase in cooling technology for high-power electronic devices. They designed novel capillary geometries that push the boundaries of thermal ...

Photonic Computing Needs More Nonlinearity: Acoustics Can Help

Apr. 14, 2025 — Neural networks are one typical structure on which artificial intelligence can be based. The term neural describes their learning ability, which to some extent mimics the functioning of neurons in ...

Cooler Faster Better: Engineers Uncover a New Way to Stop Electronics from Overheating

Apr. 14, 2025 — Engineers discovered a way to move heat ultrafast using crystal waves, offering a breakthrough in cooling advanced ...

A Fluid Battery That Can Take Any Shape

Apr. 11, 2025 — Using electrodes in a fluid form, researchers have developed a battery that can take any shape. This soft and conformable battery can be integrated into future technology in a completely new ...

3D-Printed Open-Source Robot Offers Accessible Solution for Materials Synthesis

Apr. 9, 2025 — FLUID, an open-source, 3D-printed robot, offers an affordable and customizable solution for automated material synthesis, making advanced research accessible to more ...

Tiny, Soft Robot Flexes Its Potential as a Life Saver

Apr. 8, 2025 — A tiny, soft, flexible robot that can crawl through earthquake rubble to find trapped victims or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine may seem like science fiction, but an international ...