These stickers wirelessly beam health readings to a receiver clipped onto clothing.

A new laser-based system offers an efficient way to detect fires in challenging environments such as industrial facilities or large construction sites.

These barrier coatings protect high-performance components in extreme environments.

These robust materials convert excess heat energy into electricity.

This electronic skin can track heart rate, respiration, muscle movement, and other health data.

Ultra-thin SiC microstructures enable batch fabrication of MEMS, NEMS, pressure sensors, and biosensors.

Applications include modeling of tidal stress response of icy satellites as well as fatigue of terrestrial ice shelves.

A carbon nanotube heat shield can better protect extremely fast aircraft.

Load-bearing structures in cars and airplanes could be manufactured from the metal foam.

These louvers provide passive thermal cooling for CubeSats.

An upgraded mini robot can leap over obstacles with ease.

This approach is a cost-effective way to convert carbon dioxide gas into methane.

Electric motors and gas-alcohol engines could slash pollution levels and greenhouse gases from long-haul trucks.

This technology enables methane metabolism by yeast.

Applying a surface-active agent makes metal easier to cut and shape into parts and pieces.

These advances are useful for transportation, infrastructure, and aerospace.

A new method of estimating the optimal trailing aircraft position in a formation increases fuel savings.

This method will enable safer fluorescent light recycling.

This technique lowers airstream noise generated at the side edges of deployed flaps, elevons, or slats.

A nanoantenna-enabled detector boosts the usable signal of a thermal infrared camera by up to three times.

For disease diagnosis, a microchip maps the back of the eye.

Various components are used to assemble robots that are more aware of their surroundings.

Researchers have developed a more efficient, more reliable potassium-oxygen battery with a cathode that stores the energy produced by a chemical reaction in a metal-oxygen or metal-air battery....

Innovators at NASA Johnson Space Center have developed a calorimeter that is able to measure the total heat generated when specific types of Lithium-ion (Li-ion) cells are...

A combination of additives shows promise for boosting battery performance in very cold or hot weather.

The nanogenerator also acts as a weather station.