An international team of scientists led by Penn State may have solved the 30-year-old riddle of why certain ferroelectric crystals exhibit extremely strong piezoelectric responses

PPPL physicists report that they created the phenomenon in a laboratory setting where they could measure it directly and confirm its existence on the electron scale

By observing the change in the behavior of these electrons, scientists may be able to gain an enriched understanding of material behavior

In addition to a fully detailed how-to video that the group produced for the public, the results of the work developing this do-it-yourself, handheld acoustic tractor beam will appear this week as an open access paper

Researchers were able to create ST12-germanium in a large enough sample size to confirm its characteristics and useful properties

Restoring erectile function to men who have lost it due to cancer or other injury is no locker-room joke

LEGO-style building method has potential for making one-dimensional materials with extraordinary properties

For the first time, light is used to specifically design defined molecule chains

Researchers found that they could successfully express the reductase component of the nitrogenase enzyme alone in the bacterium Azotobacter vinelandii and directly use this bacterium to convert CO₂ to CO

Process enables creation of mechanical components with functionality, such as surgical pins that change color with strain

Composite material yields ten times—or higher—voltage output

New observations confirm an 80-year-old quantum theory