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Airless tires are puncture-proof and more environmentally friendly. And Michelin is aiming to get them on your car by 2024.
Start fighting back against planned obsolescence.
The trial will test whether adding graphene to recycled asphalt can prolong the road’s lifespan.
Without Benjamin List and David MacMillan, chemists would still be using metals and enzymes to catalyze chemical reactions.
These animals to grow scalpel-sharp and precisely shaped tools that are resistant to breaking.
The guilt-free air conditioning, called “cooling paper,” is made from recyclable paper and doesn’t use any electricity.
Scientists created the mineral lonsdaleite in a lab and tested its strength using sound waves — before it was obliterated.
Metal-like materials have been discovered in a very strange place.
Buildings don’t have to be permanent — modular construction can make them modifiable and relocatable.
Researchers were even able store and read a 767-kilobit full-color short movie file in the fabric.
Measuring a person’s movements and poses, smart clothes could be used for athletic training, rehabilitation, or health-monitoring.
The bird demonstrates cutting-edge technology for devising self-folding nanoscale robots.
Researchers find a way to distort laser light to survive a trip through disordered obstacles.
A fairly old idea, but a really good one, is about to hit the store shelves.
The satellite would burn instead of becoming more space debris.
Australian researchers figure out a new way to apply extreme pressure and squeeze out diamonds.
While it’s always been a boon to Popeye’s “muskles,” it looks like spinach may also have a role to play in clean future batteries.
New prototype Petri dishes let ordinary scientists in on the advanced technology.
Dust sticking to things on the moon is a serious problem researchers are trying to solve.
Ever wonder how soft hair can dull a steel razor? So did scientists at MIT.
A clever new study definitively measures how long it takes for quantum particles to pass through a barrier.
Proteus could someday be used to create extremely strong and lightweight armor and locks.
Manly Bands wanted to improve on mens’ wedding bands. Mission accomplished.
Ever smell a durian fruit? Don’t. Think of it as nature’s stinky battery.
Graphene is insanely useful, but very difficult to produce — until now.
You’ve likely heard of solar energy, but what is osmotic energy?
Researchers from UCLA invent a device that generates electricity from a rather unusual source.
Not every part of a satellite burns up in reentry. Considering the growing number of satellites in orbital space, that’s a big problem.
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A parlor-trick mystery explained at last.