You can use an onion to flavor your stir fry, keep an avocado from turning brown, and make you cry when you aren’t sad. Now, according to a new study, you can also use it to make an artificial muscle.

The onion, a humble root vegetable, is proving its strength outside the culinary world -- in an artificial muscle created from onion cells. Unlike previous artificial muscles, this one can either ...

Researchers have developed a bio-based ultraviolet (UV) protection film that has the potential to replace conventional petroleum-derived materials in solar cells. Their study represents the first ...

Ever been moved to tears while cooking the dinner? If not, you're probably not cooking with onions. For most of us, our eyes react this way due to a sophisticated self-protection system in these ...