AMES, Iowa – Martin Thuo likes to look for new, affordable and clean ways to put science and technology to work in the world. His lab is dedicated to an idea called frugal innovation: “How do you do ...

Researchers in the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have discovered a powerful new way to control the electronic behavior ...

Boston Metal completed its first run of an industrial reactor that uses electricity to make steel. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in ...

Whether it's electric vehicles, drones, or spacecraft, a common technical challenge for future transportation is lightweighting. Reducing the weight of a vehicle not only reduces energy consumption, ...

Metal that bends instead of breaking has been a dream of engineers since the first steel tools snapped on factory floors. A new generation of 3D printed alloys is pushing that dream closer to reality, ...

Thank you, Sam. This is our highly automated pilot production line to demonstrate scalable production of our solid-state lithium metal battery technology. In Q1, we completed the installation of the ...

Fuel cells powered with the metal could provide a new source of electric power that's far more energy-dense than lithium-ion batteries. A new type of fuel cell that runs on sodium metal could one day ...