A team of engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has created a unique device that uses a bubble-wrap-encased sponge to boil water fueled by nothing but sunlight. The ...

We may have our best tool yet for fighting oil spills as researchers from Argonne National Lab have developed a new material that can absorb up to 90 times its weight in oil. The new technology works ...

That tiny, plastic-looking black cube up there can absorb up to 180 times its own weight in toxic waste without absorbing any water. How? As with just about every amazing and/or inexplicable ...

A sponge is a sponge because its porous material is able to absorb liquid of any kind. But what about liquid metal? Can a sponge actually absorb the heavy quicksilver material known as mercury? Not at ...