Under Idaho law it’s legal to make a left turn at a red light onto a one-way street. Here’s what to know about traffic laws before driving in downtown Boise.

Sweating Heat Shields Could Be the Future Of Reusable Spacecraft 3D-printed material can off-gas a coolant, which acts as a barrier against heat buildup during descent and atmospheric re-entry.

Peculiar Material Revealed To Have Hidden Quantum State That Can’t Be Flipped In A Mirror The discovery was possible thanks to a brand-new microscope.

Nano-material breakthrough could revolutionize night vision A new sensor material needs no bulky cooling gear—and fewer Chinese rare earths—to work well.

In this new effort, the research team has developed a paper-based, clear, biodegradable material that can stand up to liquids for several hours, even those that have been heated, allowing them to ...

When it comes to the best nonplastic feeding tools for kids, there are many options. After testing 34 of them, these are our favorites.

But how tough is this new material really? In the Corning lab, the material managed to survive 10 repeated one-meter drops onto 180-grit sandpaper, meant to replicate the abrasiveness of asphalt.

Since 2012, UK-based Power Roll has been working on a way to print low-cost solar film to generate clean energy from sunlight. It's now one crucial step closer to manufacturing its lightweight ...

We’ve figured out the basics of a shape-shifting, T-1000-style material A pack of small robots can do liquid/solid transitions and adopt different shapes.

Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip Microsoft has spent 17 years researching a new material and architecture for quantum computing.

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