Researchers in South Korea have developed a high-performance polyester-amide (PEA) polymer that decomposes by over 92 per cent in one year under marine conditions.

Cost savings associated with manufacturing a high volume of batteries for electric vehicles may be nearly exhausted, claim researchers in the US.

A multi-national team of researchers has developed a method of non-invasively stimulating regions deep within the brain, an advance that could improve the treatment of Parkinson’s disease.

Researchers have identified a mechanism that triggers shape-memory in organic crystals used in plastic electronics, an advance with applications in low-power electronics, medical electronics devices...

Chip maker Intel has announced a significant breakthrough in the evolution of the transistor, the microscopic building block of the microprocessor.

Researchers from the Kennedy Krieger Institute have found that non-invasive stimulation of the cerebellum helped healthy individuals learn a new walking pattern more rapidly.