Material may offer cheaper alternative to smart windows.

Results may help improve efficiency of solar cells, energy-harvesting devices.

Small voltage can flip thin film between two crystal states — one metallic, one semiconducting.

Graduate student Fahad Mahmood and colleagues show presence of charge-density waves in superconductive material.

Water-based “Band-Aid” senses temperature, lights up, and delivers medicine to the skin.

MIT graduate student Edbert Jarvis Sie shows promise of new valleytronics by optical tuning of electronic valleys in tungsten disulfide.

Farmers in Africa and other tropical areas in the Southern Hemisphere are stripping potassium from soils without replacing it.

New research shows concrete is a strong choice for the long-term confinement of nuclear waste.

Tiny sea creatures feature transparent optical systems as tough as their shells.

New “water adhesive” is tougher than natural adhesives employed by mussels and barnacles.