A new model measures defects that can be leveraged to improve materials' mechanical strength, heat transfer, and ...

In biology, defects are generally bad. But in materials science, defects can be intentionally tuned to give materials useful ...

In biology, defects are generally bad. But in materials science, defects can be intentionally tuned to give materials useful new properties. Today ...

Gold nanopillars on a microwave waveguide combine plasmonics and strain to push hBN quantum sensor sensitivity near the best values on record.

Perovskite solar cells shouldn’t work as well as they do—but they do. Scientists have now discovered that defects inside the material actually help, creating networks that separate and guide electric ...

Event-based sensing for machine vision in industrial automation delivers advantages in speed, power consumption, and data ...

A research team at Xidian University in China has found a way to make ...

The CIA used a secret tool dubbed 'Ghost Murmur' to find the American airman shot down over Southern Iran.

Oral and oropharyngeal cancers account for roughly one death every hour in the United States, yet outcomes improve substantially when the disease is found early. During April's Oral Cancer Awareness ...

Federal investigators say driver distraction, system limitations and overreliance on technology were key factors in two fatal ...

For the last few years, public attention around artificial intelligence has been fixed on text. Chatbots that answer ...