Scientists have developed a battery made mostly from paper and activated by water that they think can help clean up the disposable battery waste stream. The battery was made from paper immersed in ...

Scientists at Germany’s Chemnitz University of Technology have spent years developing compact and discreet speakers that are quite literally paper thin, and the latest breakthrough improves on this ...

To make light-weight, inexpensive electronics using renewable materials, scientists have turned to a technology that is almost 2,000 years old: paper. In an important step toward paper-based devices, ...

About turn: Alexander Maaß (front) and Ulrich Hirn from Graz University of Technology in Austria have discovered that solvents in the ink migrate through the paper towards the unprinted side over time ...

In the past, vellum described a writing surface made from animal hides. The vellum was sometimes slightly transparent, and that use of the term remains in use today. Vellum, a favorite paper among ...