Tech: High-temperature steam might be used in remote regions to cook, clean, or sterilize...

MIT engineers have built a device that soaks up enough heat from the sun to boil water and produce "superheated" steam hotter than...

Tech: Seeking to make complex simulations a breeze — (Report)

For scientists wrestling with problems as diverse as containing superhot plasma in a fusion reactor, improving the accuracy of weather forecasts, or probing...

Tech: Calibrating cosmic mile markers — (Report)

New work from the Carnegie Supernova Project provides the best-yet calibrations for using type Ia supernovae to measure cosmic distances, which has implications...

Tech: New tool for understanding enzymes — Google — (Report)

Yale scientists have taken a novel approach to unraveling the complex structure and regulation of enzymes: They Googled it. In a new study published...

Tech: Custom-made artificial mother-of-pearl — (Report)

Natural mother-of-pearl, such as mussels, is one of the hardest, most stable and stiff natural materials. Researchers have always been fascinated by it....

Tech: Chemical engineers develop new theory to build improved nanomaterials — (Report)

Thanks in part to their distinct electronic, optical and chemical properties, nanomaterials are utilized in an array of diverse applications from chemical production...

Tech: Green production of chemicals for industry — (Report)

Industry consumes large quantities of crude oil to produce basic substances for drugs, cosmetics, plastics, or food. However, these processes consume a lot...

Tech: Shape-shifting origami could help antenna systems adapt on the fly — (Report)

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have devised a method for using an origami-based structure to create radio frequency filters that have...

Tech: Topological material switched off and on for the first time — (Report)

Over the last decade, there has been much excitement about the discovery, recognised by the Nobel Prize in Physics only two years ago,...

Tech: Antenna evaluation method could help boost 5G network capacity and cut costs —...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a method for evaluating and selecting optimal antenna designs for future...

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