In the search for ways to harvest small amounts of energy to run electronic devices or sensors, researchers typically add hard ceramic nanoparticles to a flexible polymer support

The new technology has biomedical, soft robot and other applications

Columbia Engineering team discovers the fibers' exceptional capabilities to reflect sunlight and transmit optical signals and images

A new study found that data from wearable sensors and artificial intelligence could one day predict whether a person is experiencing the onset of a respiratory or cardiovascular disease

Researchers discover that cresols disperse carbon nanotubes at unprecedentedly high concentrations

RoboFly is slightly heavier than a toothpick and is powered by a laser beam

Although most wing shapes used today create turbulent wake vortices, wing geometrics can be designed to reduce or eliminate wingtip vortices almost entirely

A team from KAUST has proposed a simple method that, in just five minutes, can produce a flexible film with a complex hierarchical structure that has repeating patterns of interconnected, regularly shaped pores

Leaky systems have limited how engineers design thermoacoustic devices that rely on the interplay between temperature oscillations and sound waves

While advances in additive manufacturing offer potential breakthroughs in prosthetic arms or jet engine parts, 3-D printing may also accelerate weapons proliferation

A team designed a hollow synthetic packet that is just tens to hundreds of nanometers across

Despite leaning precariously at a five-degree angle, the 58-meter tall Tower has managed to survive, undamaged, at least four strong earthquakes that have hit the region since 1280