01. MIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials
02. Bacteria as blacksmiths – new method to assemble unconventional materials
03. Can rainbows monitor the environment?
04. Enhanced light absorption in thin silicon photodetectors with photon-trapping structures
05. Extraordinarily strong, lightweight material combines DNA and glass
06. ‘Quantum avalanche’ explains how nonconductors turn into conductors
07. ‘Stunning’ discovery: Metals can heal themselves
08. Team creates simple superconducting device that could dramatically cut energy use in computing
09. Turning bacteria into solar factories with semiconductor nanoclusters
10. Some alloys don’t change size when heated, and we now know why
And others
Gloomy climate calculation: Scientists predict a collapse of the Atlantic ocean current to happen mid-century
Research team takes neuromorphic computing a step forward
Researchers create class of tiny polarization structures called solitons
Scientists develop a broadband quantum-dot frequency-modulated comb laser
Self-healing plastic becomes biodegradable