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.

You can use an onion to flavor your stir fry or keep an avocado from turning brown. Now, according to a new study, you can also use it to make an artificial muscle. To be clear, no one is talking ...

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 ...

Guard cell protoplasts (GCP) from young cotyledons of onion and tobacco were isolated in culture microchambers where optimal isolating and culture conditions could be determined in situ. The digestion ...

Scientists have discovered that a dye extracted from red onion peels could be the missing ingredient required to create an effective ultraviolet (UV) protection for solar cells. These solar cells are ...

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 ...

Producing many a tear in the kitchen, onions may now add some flavour to the robotics community as scientists in Taiwan have created an artificial muscle made from gold-plated onion skin. A part of ...

Onion (Allium cepa L.) bulbs were subjected for 12 days to either a moderate freeze (-4 C) or a severe freeze (-11 C). They were then thawed slowly over ice. During 7 to 12 days following the thaw, ...

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.