A team of materials scientists and engineers at ETH Zurich has developed a light-triggered chemical process for breaking down ...

Researchers have engineered groups of robots that behave as smart materials with tunable shape and strength, mimicking living ...

Galaxies, planets, black holes: to most people, everything about our Universe sounds and feels enormous. But while it's true ...

Science is valuable to society, but we will need to overcome these 3 challenges to fully maximize its potential for the ...

Researchers are blurring the lines between robotics and materials, with a proof-of-concept material-like collective of robots with behaviors inspired by biology.

The work could be a step toward understanding the effects behind the phenomenon of static electricity, in which electric charge accumulates on materials after they are rubbed or touched together.

New research has emerged on the development of a novel membrane distillation system and an adsorbent (a substance that can trap chemicals on its surface) for the removal of hazardous perfluoroalkyl ...

Simulations showed that over 10 lakh macroscopic objects, each wider than 100 metres were moving surreptitiously outside our ...

The film discusses the origin and synthesis of plastic materials, highlighting how nature creates various organic substances ...

To make the circular economy successful at scale, it is essential to drive efforts with science and facts rather than emotions.

Archaeologists are piecing together the world’s oldest known rune stone. It could shed light on the origins of early written Germanic languages and who inscribed it.

The chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth in 2032 hit a record high. Experts expect the risk percentage to fluctuate before likely dropping to zero. Here’s why.