Concrete is one of the world's biggest carbon emitters. Benjamin Skuse asks if AI can help tame concrete’s climate impact ...

SNAPSHOT: Enabled by local composites specialist network, SMAF builds ≈70-meter masts for decarbonized propulsion plus ...

Solid-state batteries promise greater safety, higher energy density, and new degrees of freedom in cell design. Yet the path from laboratory cell to industrial production is challenging. Laser ...

Rice becomes weaker when compressed quickly, while staying stronger under slow pressure—a discovery enabling scientists to design a new material that could be used to build "soft" robots that change ...

Microsoft Researchers Figure Out How to Store Data Inside Glass Using Lasers ...

Data is the life-blood of physical AI. Collecting real-life data is expensive. Generative AI and diffusion to create ...

Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, an MIT team has designed a technique that could transform flat panels into medical devices, habitats, and other objects without the use of tools.

The development of next-generation metallic materials is entering a transformative era driven by data-driven methodologies. Traditional trial-and-error ...

Minor changes in moisture level can promote lipid molecules to reorganize themselves in biomaterial or biomembranes. This can affect how the skin, lungs and tear film protect us from dehydration. This ...

For decades, scientists viewed the genome of a newly fertilised egg as a structural 'blank slate' – a disordered tangle of ...

Conventional crystals are materials in which atoms arrange themselves in repeating spatial patterns. Time crystals, on the other hand, are phases of matter characterized by repeating motions over time ...

In a major shift in its hardware strategy, OpenAI launched GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, its first production AI model deployed on ...