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Electron Microscopy Reveals New Method to Make Exotic Metal Alloys

A close-up photograph of a man wearing glasses, a labcoat, and gloves who is holding up a small clear vessel containing light blue liquid.

New Process Uses Microbes to Create Valuable Materials from Urine

Simple oblong cells are seen against a black background, looking like individual bubbles or small clusters. The membranes glow green and red.

Computational Chemistry Unlocked: A Record-Breaking Dataset to Train AI Models has Launched

An abstract decorative representation of atoms in molecules interacting. Many colorful interconnecting particles on a black field.

This Alloy is Kinky

A field of pink, purple, cyan, indigo, orange, and yellow shapes packed together, resembling vibrant abstract art.

How X-Rays Can Make Better Batteries

Artist's rendering of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries with a midnight blue background and electric blue outlines surrounding 3 batteries

Scientists Discover ‘Secret Sauce’ Behind Exotic Properties of New Quantum Material

A blue and white visualization of the zero-energy electronic states – also known as a “Fermi surface” – from the kagome material studied by MIT’s Riccardo Comin and colleagues.

With a Little Help, New Optical Material Assembles Itself

Technique Tunes Into Graphene Nanoribbons’ Electronic Potential

New Smart-Roof Coating Enables Year-Round Energy Savings

Gloved hand holding a petri dish of radiative coating

These Tiny Liquid Robots Never Run Out of Juice as Long as They Have Food

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How Can Next-Gen Computer Chips Reduce Our Carbon Footprint?

Physicists Snap First Image of an ‘Electron Ice’

This scanning tunneling microscope image of a graphene sheet reveals that a Wigner crystal – a honeycomb arrangement of electrons, like an electron ice – has formed inside a layered structure underneath. (Image by Hongyuan Li and Shaowei Li, courtesy of Nature)