Kyoto Fusioneering is developing two next-generation breeder-blanket structural materials. One is a family of vanadium alloys that handle temperatures of around 800 °C. The other is a composite of ...

Can you really set your microwave on fire? It depends. Here's what happens if you put metal in the microwave—and no, don't try it at home.

“What we've experimentally found in our recent work is that a certain amount of heat can promote the chemical conversion ...

Making electrons flow like a liquid is difficult, but inside graphene researchers forced them to move so fast that they ...

Why your phone charges quickly one day but slowly the next, or why electric cars still take an hour or more to charge, is a ...

One critical detail is that solar panels naturally produce direct current (DC) electricity, whereas homes and the grid operate on alternating current (AC). Here’s where the inverter comes into play: ...

Virtual particles may not be real, but they help physicists track how forces move, and allow for incredibly precise ...

Many governments and tech companies are investing heavily in quantum technologies. In New Zealand, the recently announced ...

A new study could guide the design of more powerful and faster charging lithium-ion batteries. MIT researchers measured ...

Researchers from the Freunberger group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have unveiled pivotal ...

Kobe University ONO Tomoya (left) is an expert in calculating the properties of materials based on the behavior of their electrons. His team now showed that the interface between a ferromagnet and an ...