Kitchen backsplashes can be beautiful even on a budget. Here's several affordable ideas, from peel and stick tile to ...

Scientists have created tiny disk-shaped particles that can swim on their own when hit with light, akin to microscopic robots ...

Inspired by squid skin, scientists developed smart materials that shift color and infrared light - opening new paths for ...

Ocutrx Technologies' HemoLucence can digitally visualize areas of the body covered by up to a quarter inch of human blood.

But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the ...

With the release of its first images this month, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun a 10-year mission to help unravel ...

Commercialization of photoelectrochemical (PEC) water-splitting technology is hindered by the slower kinetics of oxygen evolution in the currently available photoanodes. Light absorption, ...

This paper describes a way to implement a transparent electrode for symmetrical emission from the bottom and top sides of transparent organic light-emitting diodes (TOLEDs). An ultrathin (~6 nm) and ...

Liquid-phase crystallization of Si films on textured glass by line-focus diode laser produces a material with large highquality grains of several hundred micrometers in width and up to centimeters in ...

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