Were it not for the thin sheath of water and carbon-based life covering it, our home planet would perhaps be best known as the “Silicon World.” More than a quarter of the mass of the Earth’s crust is ...

Fresh from church on a cool, overcast Sunday morning in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, Alex Glover slides onto the plastic bench of a McDonald’s booth. He rummages through his knapsack, then pulls out a ...

UC Irvine-led research reveals that the optical properties of materials can be dramatically enhanced—not by changing the materials themselves, but by giving the light new properties. The researchers ...

The silicon is very hot and glows when it is collected inside a vacuum chamber In a quantum computer, pure silicon is not enough - only one specific type of silicon atom will do. The good stuff is ...

Engineers have created a new type of solid-state battery that leverages an anode made with pure silicon. The team says their new battery design combines two subfields of battery research to create a ...

Art and science can seem two opposites on a spectrum. One is creative and interpretive, the other exact and empirical. But an emerging technology known as Pure Structural Colour – dubbed the “boldest, ...

With a significant investment of $3.2 million ($3.2 Euro) from the European Innovation Council’s Pathfinder Open funding ...