One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have formed on our planet eons ago. But not everyone ...

From the tragedy of the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 to the now-routine return of commercial spacecraft, heat ...

Physicists have finally confirmed a phenomenon that sounds like pure science fiction: waves that appear to bounce off a ...

Startups flush with cash are spinning up AI-assisted laboratories with the hope of finding new materials much faster.

Researchers in Sweden have unveiled a way to create high-performance electronic electrodes using nothing more than visible ...

Science fiction has always needed materials that don't exist. How else do you explain a lightsaber, power a warp drive, or make a superhero's shield indestructible? Over a century of storytelling has ...

A five-element ceramic aerogel compresses by 98% and recovers its shape from cryogenic to 1500 degrees C temperatures, ...

A new fabric inspired by the feathers of the magnificent riflebird — a type of bird of paradise — is the darkest ever created, according to its inventors.

Machine learning is transforming many scientific fields, including computational materials science. For about two decades, ...

MIT researchers have developed a new fabrication method that could enable the production of more energy efficient electronics by stacking multiple functional components on top of one existing circuit.

Florida State University researchers have created a new crystalline material with unusual magnetic patterns that could be ...

With some 5,000 grades of steel available today, the steel manufacturing process hinges on fine nuances. To create new ...