Carbon Nanotubes

The technology continues to evolve, but 3D printing is still mostly used for creating prototypes or parts that won’t…

Move over, Vantablack. MIT engineers have developed a material they they claim is 10 times blacker than any other to…

Scientists at MIT built a 16-bit microprocessor out of carbon nanotubes and even ran a program on it, a new paper…

The bad news: The European Union is moving forward with its potentially disastrous new Copyright Directive, a law…

When it comes to groundbreaking research, there are two fields that seem to occupy the newscycle: carbon nanotubes…

Popeye was right when it came to the health benefits of spinach, but that simple sailor man couldn’t have predicted…

Carbon nanotubes have been pegged as the wonder material that could finally allow us to build a space elevator. A…

From chaos, some order and energy—at least if you’re a bunch of carbon nanotubes being blasted by a Tesla coil.

This looks like the kind of thin material you might make a trash bag out of. But that would be a waste because this…

What’s that up your nose? Researchers have found carbon nanotubes lurking in the lungs of children in Paris, marking…

In the semiconductor industry, size matters — and people are worried that it won’t be able make transistors any…

Space colonization has reached an impasse, for reasons far more fundamental than a lack of money for the Space…

There’s a reason why we call it the “march of progress” instead of the “moonwalk of progress.” Technology is meant…

Some MIT eggheads invented a very impressive and very inexpensive sensor that stands to protect you against anything…

Light the touchpaper and stand well back, because we're about to... make sustainable electricity? That's the idea…

A few years ago, we looked at NASA's long project to design a paint so black, it would absorb nearly every bit of…

Our world of amazingly tiny electronics is about to get even tinier. After a decade of research, IBM says it'll…

Researchers in Japan have developed an incredibly thin wire—just half a micrometer in diameter—made from a new…

If you've ever lamented the fact that putting your sofa right next to a warm crackling fireplace was dangerous, carbo…

Coming just a year after the creation of the first carbon nanotube computer chip, scientists have just built the…