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Oxygen is the only by-product of a new aluminum production process devised by Rio Tinto and Alcoa Corporation.

This week's engineering brief covers smart windows, ATM security and the UK's wet wipe ban.

NASA has discovered a new magnetic reconnection within the Earth’s atmosphere that could affect electronics on Earth.

The new method puts ink-free plastic that is soaked in a sulfur-containing solvent in a microwave, and then turns that into batteries as a carbon scaffold.

The technique removes optical distortions like caustic focusing and refractive lensing to provide a clear view of submerged objects from above the rippling water surface.

The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport lander will listen for "marsquakes" ahead of eventual human missions to explore the Red Planet.

Simulations showed that microbead treatment is unlikely to be effective on its own, but when combined with a technique called debridement, it could significantly reduce or eliminate infection.

The platform can increase the value of home energy storage systems for a range of stakeholders including grid operators, utilities and their customers.

Custom-designed silicon microparticles that both assemble and disassemble themselves could form the basis for creating artificial muscles, as well as reconfigurable computer systems.

No matter whether your fasteners are flow-form, flow-drill or flow-push, the DEPRAG Adaptive DFS will automatically adjust itself to process any of these fasteners and varying materials.

On its eighth flight on April 29, Blue Origin's New Shepard crew capsule reached the targeted height of 351,000 feet (66 miles).

Ford has devised technology to bring scenic cues to the visually impaired with a prototype smart car window that will allow blind people to “feel the view.”

Shielded Solid Insulation Systems (2SIS) provide advanced protection and dependability. With all current carrying components encapsulated by a high dielectric insulating epoxy, the probability of internal arcing is minimized.

Rice University students have developed a technique to simplify the placement of electrodes in the brains of patients with epilepsy.

Washington, D.C.-based American University has achieved carbon neutrality two years before its 2020 target, making it the first U.S. university to have a net-zero carbon footprint.

To fight fungal infections, researchers from the University at Buffalo have used 3D printers to build dentures filled with microscopic capsules that release antifungal medication.

The Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE) can operate efficiently from a standing start at sea level all the way to Mach 25 at the edge of space 90 km (56 miles) up before returning to the runway to land.

Potable water is an essential resource and while a plethora of technologies exist that produce clean water, their economic feasibility is debatable. As nanotechnology has pushed the bounds in every other industry, its presence in the water filtration market is beginning to take hold.