University of Stuttgart

Nobody likes buildings that are too hot in the summer or too cold in the winter. That's where the FlectoLine facade comes in, as it uses two bio-inspired mechanisms to regulate how much solar thermal energy gets through a building's windows.

A new study has delved into the tardigrade's ability to endure freezing temperatures, a state known as cryobiosis, and shown for the first time that they are able to stop their internal clocks to halt the aging process in such conditions.

An Australian/German team has developed the world's smallest imaging device, at the thickness of a human hair. It's capable of traveling down the blood vessels of mice, offering unprecedented abilities to 3D-scan the body at microscopic resolutions.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Germany have created a system that can move and manipulate particles using holograms made of sound

German researchers have developed a complex lens system no bigger than a grain of salt that fits inside a syringe. The imaging tool could make for not just more productive medical imaging, but tiny cameras for everything from drones to slimmer smartphones.

Phosphorus is a mineral that's widely used in fertilizer, which itself has an unfortunate tendency to leach out of farmers' fields and into our waterways. Now, researchers have devised a method of retrieving some of that phosphorus from the water.

Researchers at the University of Stuttgart claim to have developed "the world's smallest steam engine," consisting of a single particle.