Structure fires usually don't burn too long. But ask anyone who has been through one and they'll probably tell you that rec ...

Perovskite solar cells shouldn’t work as well as they do—but they do. Scientists have now discovered that defects inside the material actually help, creating networks that separate and guide electric ...

There is extensive variability in learning styles and neural architecture so that "neurodiverse" versus "neurotypical" is a ...

Study shows lithium dendrites are brittle and needle-like, challenging assumptions about solid-state battery safety.

Star-shaped vanadium hydroxide nanoparticles show that changing a material's shape from sheets to stars shifts its energy ...

When created at the nanoscale, materials can resemble shapes like stars, rods or even pyramids. These particle shapes, also ...

MIT physicists have synthesized a new family of bulk crystals whose electrons behave as though they move in an effectively ...

Scientists have discovered that a special type of material called perovskite can physically change shape when exposed to ...

Workers were evacuated after a machine caught on fire and caused a heavy amount of smoke to fill a very large manufacturing ...

Rice University scientists and collaborators have created a new type of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor that comes closer ...

Researchers have discovered that perovskite crystals can rapidly and reversibly change shape when exposed to light, revealing ...

Superconductivity—the ability of a material to conduct electricity without any energy loss to heat—enables highly efficient, ...