Electron spiral: phase of the beam near the tip of the needle Twisted beams of electrons have been used for the first time to determine the handedness, or “chirality”, of an ultrathin crystal. The new ...

Researchers from the labs of Professors Vinayak Dravid and Omar Farha developed a high-resolution approach to map ...

Engineers at MIT have developed a process for 3D printing construction-grade structural elements using recycled plastic ...

A new low-damage imaging technique developed at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) is opening the door to detailed analysis of fragile nanomaterials for the first time.

Sponges build their skeletons in a completely different way than other animals do, researchers have found. In fact, the building process looks a lot like the construction of human-made buildings, ...

CompoTech PLUS (Sušice, Czech Republic) uses its proprietary advanced fiber laying (AFL) and winding technologies to replace steel and aluminum with lightweight carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) ...

I’m going to put this as gently as possible: 3D printing entire buildings, right down to the fixtures, doesn’t make a ton of sense yet. It’s an exciting vision of the future, of course, but it’s also ...