Making sustainable plastic from the carbon dioxide in the ocean
Credit: Nature Catalysis (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41929-025-01416-4 The ocean is Earth’s largest carbon sink, absorbing about 25% of the…
Swiss solar furnaces recycling watchmakers’ waste metal
Panatere metallurgical engineer Jean-Francois Dionne, wearing a thermal protective suit, shows an aluminum ingot. A Swiss company inaugurated…
How atmospheric water harvesting can be scaled
Companies in the SAWH sector. Credit: Joule (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2025.102132 Water scarcity is a huge global issue. More…
Recycling lithium from old electric vehicle batteries could be done cheaply with new electrochemical process
Chemistry Professor Kyoung-Shin Choi’s research lab has developed an electrochemical method to recycle lithium that’s catching the attention…
Automated protocol predicts new thermoelectric materials
Andrej Pustogow (left) and Fabian Garmroudi (right) next to an exhibit of a quantum computer at the APS…
New haptic technology adds the sense of touch to virtual reality
Credit: Premankur Banerjee USC scientists have developed a wearable system that enables more natural and emotionally engaging interactions…
Scientists use imaging technology to visualize heat
(left) atoms present in the 2D material. (right) photos of single atoms. Credit: The Grainger College of Engineering…
Researchers demonstrate modular approach for building scalable quantum computers
Experiment overview. Credit: Nature Electronics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41928-025-01404-3 What do children’s building blocks and quantum computing have in…
New research shows why people use the Internet of Things (IoT) and why sometimes they do not
Adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT). Credit: Journal of Consumer Behaviour (2024). DOI: 10.1002/cb.2427 The Internet of…
Model predicts long-term effects of nuclear waste on underground disposal systems
(A) Computational domain and material distribution used in the simulations. The domain is rotated so that the Opalinus…
Researchers unveil efficient, eco-friendly method for recycling lithium-ion batteries
WPI Professor Yan Wang leads the team who developed the new process. Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute In a…