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Soft Biological Matter Outperforms Traditional Rigid Silicon for Neuromorphic Computing

A decades-long collaboration between two Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists is reshaping how we understand learning.

20 Aug 2026

A Plastic Designed to Become Fertilizer After Use

Researchers developed isosorbide-based plasticizers that made brittle poly(isosorbide carbonate) more flexible while preserving its ability to undergo ammonolysis after use. The resulting degradation products supported plant growth, including in an edible vegetable, highlighting a new way to design plastics with a useful end-of-life function.

20 Aug 2026

AI Microscope Eliminates Sample Shuttling to Protect Fragile Biological Context

Biology doesn’t happen at one scale. Molecular interactions unfold in milliseconds and nanometers, while disease-associated change such as in Alzheimer’s spreads across millimeters of brain tissue. Understanding complex biological systems requires scientists to watch both — ideally at the same time and with the same sample.

19 Aug 2026

Aerosol Droplets Turned Cyanide and Minerals Into Complex Hybrid Materials

Researchers showed that alkaline cyanide aerosols interacting with six mineral substrates can spontaneously form mineral-organic hybrid materials, with mineral identity and reaction time shaping the resulting nitrogen-rich organic structures. The findings reveal that minerals can actively influence prebiotic molecular complexity while organic coatings can also stabilize or transform the underlying mineral phases.

18 Aug 2026

New Superconductor Map Reveals Materials That Could Withstand Magnetic Fields Above 60 Tesla

Researchers built a first-principles database of critical magnetic fields for nearly 7,300 electron-phonon superconductors, revealing unexpectedly large numbers of Type-I materials and predicted upper critical fields reaching 66.9 Tesla.

17 Aug 2026

Get More Insight From Beam-Sensitive Materials: Analytical Cryo-STEM Solution is Now Available on Tescan TENSOR™

Beam-sensitive materials can hold the answers to some of today’s most important research questions, but they can also be the hardest to analyze.

From Tescan 14 Aug 2026

Bruker Announces Strategic Collaboration with Atinary Technologies to Advance Self-Driving Laboratories

Bruker Corporation today announced an expanded strategic collaboration with Atinary Technologies Inc., the pioneer of Self-Driving Labs® technologies and AI-driven R&D with applications in pharmaceuticals, chemicals, energy, and materials.

From SciY 12 Aug 2026

Wiley Releases Database Combining Two of the World’s Most Trusted Chemical Identification Resources

Wiley, a global leader in authoritative content and research intelligence, today released the new edition of the Wiley Registry/NIST Mass Spectral Library, a reference database that combines two essential mass spectrometry references in a single, integrated collection, giving scientists the full depth of both to identify unknown chemical compounds.

From John Wiley and Sons - Scientific Publishers 11 Aug 2026

New Underwater Adhesive Reaches 1.1 MPa Strength In Just 10 Seconds

Researchers developed BP16TPB, a recyclable supramolecular ionic liquid adhesive that reached 1.1 MPa underwater adhesion strength on ceramic within 10 seconds. Marangoni-driven solvent exchange displaced interfacial water and triggered reversible self-assembly, enabling durable bonding, stability beyond three years in a static load test, and repeated recycling without loss of performance.

9 Aug 2026

Biaxial Strain Reshapes Bilayer Nickelates Through a Distinct Electronic Pathway

Compression tunes bilayer nickelates without forcing the high-pressure phase, revealing an alternative route to the orbital and band conditions linked to superconductivity.

6 Aug 2026

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Soft Biological Matter Outperforms Traditional Rigid Silicon for Neuromorphic Computing

A Plastic Designed to Become Fertilizer After Use

AI Microscope Eliminates Sample Shuttling to Protect Fragile Biological Context

Aerosol Droplets Turned Cyanide and Minerals Into Complex Hybrid Materials

New Superconductor Map Reveals Materials That Could Withstand Magnetic Fields Above 60 Tesla

Get More Insight From Beam-Sensitive Materials: Analytical Cryo-STEM Solution is Now Available on Tescan TENSOR™

Bruker Announces Strategic Collaboration with Atinary Technologies to Advance Self-Driving Laboratories

Wiley Releases Database Combining Two of the World’s Most Trusted Chemical Identification Resources

New Underwater Adhesive Reaches 1.1 MPa Strength In Just 10 Seconds

Biaxial Strain Reshapes Bilayer Nickelates Through a Distinct Electronic Pathway

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