Hanan Kalaz

A more efficient and environmentally friendly approach to extracting rare earth elements that power everything from electric vehicle batteries to smartphones could increase domestic supply and decrease reliance on costly imports.

Some public transit shelter designs can actually do more harm than good when it comes to shielding from summer temperatures, according to a new study.

While exploring a digitally represented object through artificially created sense of touch, brain-computer interface users described the warm fur of a purring cat, the smooth rigid surface of a door key and cool roundness of an apple.

The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has spotted an unusual family of stars all strangely eager to leave home — a family we couldn’t have discovered without the star-surveying spacecraft, and one unlike all others we have spotted to date.

A team has discovered how certain bacteria breathe by generating electricity, using a natural process that pushes electrons into their surroundings instead of breathing on oxygen. The findings could enable new developments in clean energy and industrial biotechnology.

Metal oxyhydroxides are nanoparticles with wide industrial applications, but determining their exact structure is often challenging. Recently, a research team has developed an advanced imaging method called ‘lattice correlation analysis’ to reveal the detailed 3D atomic structure of titanium oxyhydroxide nanoparticles. By leveraging data-driven insights, this method unlocks the crystal attributes without causing any damage,

Researchers have been putting ChatGPT essays to the test against real students. A new study reveals that the AI generated essays don’t yet live up to the efforts of real students. While the AI essays were found to be impressively coherent and grammatically sound, they fell short in one crucial area — they lacked a

A squishy, layered material that dramatically transforms under pressure could someday help computers store more data with less energy. That’s according to a new study that shows a hybrid zinc telluride-based material can undergo surprising structural changes when squeezed together like a molecular sandwich.

Researchers have shown they can inexpensively nanomanufacture silk microneedles to precisely fortify crops, monitor plant health, and detect soil toxins.

For the first time, researchers can study the microstructures inside metals, ceramics and rocks with X-rays in a standard laboratory without needing to travel to a particle accelerator, according to engineers.