Science

U.S. Engineers Develop Ballistic Wallpaper

U.S. Troops often use abandoned masonry, brick or cinderblock structures for defensive purposes instead of building their own or digging foxholes.

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Buckle up for fast ionic conduction

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ETH researchers engineered free-standing ceramic membranes for so-called micro energy converters. The strain patterns of these membranes...

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Nanoparticles naturally fall into left- and right-handed versions

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These are levorotatory and dextrorotatory quantum dots with left and right chiral defects.

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A protective shield for sensitive catalysts: Hydrogels block harmful oxygen

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With a novel hydrogel, sensitive catalysts can be protected from oxygen molecules (red) which could irreversibly damage the catalysts. The...

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World's thinnest lightbulb -- graphene gets bright! Columbia engineers and colleagues create bright, visible light emission from one-atom thick carbon

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Researchers grind nanotubes to get nanoribbons: Rice-led experiments demonstrate solid-state carbon nanotube 'templates'

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Researchers led by materials scientists at Rice University discovered that altering carbon nanotubes with carboxyl (COOH) and hydroxyl (OH...

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Rosetta's lander Philae wakes up from hibernation

Rosetta's lander Philae has woken up after seven months in hibernation on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

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Sustainable transport essential to new global goals and low carbon economy – UN panel

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Bicycle-taxi in the streets of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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