Modern air conditioning systems consume significant amounts of energy to cool buildings during the daytime, generating significant amounts of greenhouse gases responsible for climate change

In the first experiment of its kind, scientists are looking at new ways to test how plastics degrade in water—which could be used to trial plastic alternatives

New metal-organic framework enables capture of water from dry air 24/7

Scientists at Brookhaven Lab's center for functional nanomaterials created 'hybrid' organic-inorganic materials for transferring ultrasmall, high-aspect-ratio features into silicon for next-generation electronic devices

Material could also be used someday in building materials or environmental sensors

Wearing a flower brooch that blooms before your eyes sounds like magic. KAIST researchers have made it real with robotic muscles

Illinois and SLAC researchers use a new technique to probe high-temperature superconductivity

Team is working on techniques to produce useful compounds from wood and other fast growing non-edible plant waste, through a chemical process named xylochemistry

Australia-UK researchers identify ancient protein pumps that make bacteria tough to treat—but could be key to new green polymers

Two-dimensional h-BN, an insulating material also known as "white graphene," is four times stiffer than steel and an excellent conductor of heat