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A Project Develops “Cool” Façades Expected to Reduce Summer Building Temperatures by up to 2 °C

Every summer, the façades, roofs and pavements of cities absorb a large share of solar radiation and act as heat accumulators.

From AIMPLAS 29 Jul 2026

Ancient Shipwreck Cargo Reveals Surprising Global Trade Secrets of the 1600s

Using cargo recovered from one of Australia’s most infamous shipwrecks, new Curtin University-led research has revealed how surprisingly sophisticated global supply chains helped source and transport construction materials in the 17th century.

29 Jul 2026

Innovative Nanotechnology Sensors Offer Rapid Testing for Toxic PFAS Chemicals

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of man-made "forever chemicals."

29 Jul 2026

AI Transformers Revolutionize Complex Fluid Dynamics in Next-Gen Reactors

If you've used a large language model such as ChatGPT, you've interacted with a transformer, the neural network architecture that powers many generative artificial intelligence (AI) models.

29 Jul 2026

Strained Germanium Could Carry Quantum Information Between Distant Qubits

Researchers proposed Quantum Phononic Links that confine acoustic phonons within strained germanium quantum wells to connect spatially separated hole spin qubits. Simulations and theoretical estimates suggest that the CMOS-compatible architecture could provide frequency-selective coupling over long on-chip distances, though experiments must verify its performance.

By Dr. Noopur Jain 28 Jul 2026

StellarNet Expands Semiconductor Thin-Film Measurement Systems with New TF-Micro™ Thin-Film Measurement Microscope TF-AM™ Automated Mapping and Surface Quality Verification™

As semiconductor devices continue to become smaller and more complex, accurate thin-film metrology plays an increasingly important role in wafer process development and advanced device manufacturing.

From StellarNet, Inc. 28 Jul 2026

Africa’s “Tesla Paradox” Shows How EV Supply Chains Shift Costs to Mineral-Rich Nations

Researchers define Africa’s “Tesla Paradox” as the divide between the clean-energy promise of electric vehicles and the economic, environmental, and political burdens concentrated in mineral-rich African countries. The authors argue that limited local processing and weak governance restrict value capture while shifting ecological and social risks onto mining communities.

By Muhammad Osama 27 Jul 2026

Electron-Tuned Interfaces Build Stronger Metal-Polymer Bonds Without Adhesives

Researchers showed that strong metal-polymer bonding depends on electron donation from polymer functional groups into vacant orbitals on oxidized metal surfaces. By engineering oxygen vacancies and carboxyl groups, they increased the tensile-shear strength of magnesium alloy/CFRTP joints by more than 400%.

By Muhammad Osama 26 Jul 2026

Generative AI Speeds 3D Energetic Material Design for Custom Combustion

Researchers developed a hybrid generative AI framework that designs 3D energetic material grain structures to match user-defined pressure-time combustion profiles. By combining physics-informed geometry modeling, diffusion-based generation, and gradient-based refinement, the approach reduced design time while maintaining strong simulation-based performance matching.

By Akshatha Chandrashekar 26 Jul 2026

Materials-Driven Fusion Approach Opens New Era for Nuclear Science

Fusion at high temperatures powers the sun and, if harnessed, could provide a potential source of energy here on Earth. But controlling fusion reactions has other benefits.

25 Jul 2026

New Machine Learning Method Optimizes Production of Atom-Thin Filters

Ultra-thin two-dimensional (2D) materials are only one atom thick. They can act as powerful filters at the tiniest scales, even approaching sub-atomic dimensions. In this work, scientists used machine learning to develop a scalable method to grow high-quality (almost defect-free), atom-thin layers of boron and nitrogen.

24 Jul 2026