When everyday clothes can quietly support your back during a long work shift, help you rise from a chair or steady your ...

Rice bioengineers Gang Bao and Caleb Bashor are leading a project focused on exploring how biological systems derived from nature can be engineered to deliver long-form genetic instructions for the ...

EPFL engineers unveil a detachable robotic hand that crawls into tight spaces, grips objects both ways, and returns ...

Researchers build a vision-based system for prosthetic hands, enabling context-aware grip control and improved daily function ...

The award recipients will be honored at a ceremony at ACS Spring 2026 in Atlanta on March 24, 2026. Sponsor: Endowed fund ...

The Agency announces that Colliers Engineering and Design has been chosen to lead the Master Facility Plan for the ...

Rice University's SynthX Center, directed by Han Xiao, has received an up to five-year, $18 million award from the Advanced ...

With advanced computing, semiconductors and AI hardware essential to national competitiveness, a transformative investment ...

Enzymes with specific functions are becoming increasingly important in industry, medicine and environmental protection. For example, they make it possible to synthesize chemicals in a more ...

Important everyday products—from plastics to detergents—are made through chemical reactions that mostly use precious metals such as platinum as catalysts. Scientists have been searching for more ...

Harvard University’s first hybrid mass timber and low-carbon concrete conference center is a bold commitment to ...