Hydrogen and fuel of the future

In a new step towards realizing the dream of the use of hydrogen as renewable energy company announced "BMW" for completing the ... Read more »

Solar-powered airplane

One pilot, zero passengers and a message of inspiration are bound to make a trip in a solar-powered plane from one US coast to another ... Read more »

Recyclable solar cells

The new solar cells can be easily recycled in water at room temperature Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue Univ... Read more »

World's Lightest Material

This one's made of carbon, and it's super absorbent, too! ( Zhejiang University News) Check out this contender for the title o... Read more »

First pressure-sensitive, self-healing material

The material repairs itself in about 30 minutes after being sliced in half with a scalpel Our largest bodily organ is also one of ... Read more »

Hybrid nanomaterial converts light and heat into electricity

A hybrid nanomaterial synthesized by combining copper sulfide nanoparticles and SWNTs can convert light and heat into electricity We... Read more »

Earth-sized planet with a molten surface discovered orbiting Alpha Centauri B

Artist's impression from a point in the Alpha Centauri triple star system, showing the newly discovered planet orbiting around Alph... Read more »

World’s most efficient thermoelectric material developed

Thermoelectrics can be used to convert energy currently lost as heat wasted from industry and vehicle tailpipes into electricity Appro... Read more »

Element 113 Concluded at Last

The search for superheavy elements is a difficult and painstaking process. Such elements do not occur in nature and must be produced thro... Read more »

"No scientific evidence" that cell phones are harmful

It's a common fear: cell phones are giving us cancer! Despite several studies assuring that there are no health risks associated wi... Read more »

Synthetic materials set new world record for greatest amount of surface area

Researchers at Northwestern University, Illinois, have broken a world record in the creation of two synthetic materials, named NU-109 and ... Read more »

Honda develops new technology to weld steel and aluminum together

Although some engineers have had success in spot welding steel and aluminum together, it has largely been considered impossible to achieve... Read more »

New Use for Those Incredible Nanotubes: Holograms

A holographic image of the word "CAMBRIDGE" generated using carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes — a manmade material many ti... Read more »

Smallest guitar, about the size of a human blood cell

The world's smallest guitar -- carved out of crystalline silicon and no larger than a single cell -- has been made at Cornell Unive... Read more »

7 Man-Made Substances that Laugh in the Face of Physics

The universe is full of weird substances like liquid metal and whatever preservative keeps Larry King alive. But mankind isn't happy t... Read more »