New materials designed by a University of Illinois Chicago graduate student may help scientists meet one of today's biggest ...

The answer lies in how a car’s side-view mirrors are designed. They are convex, meaning they are curved or rounded outward.

Octopuses have a superpower. They can cling to nearly any surface, no matter how wet or slippery, with their sucker-lined ...

Researchers have created a new material that will be pivotal in making the next generation of high-power electronics faster, transparent and more efficient.

Materials science is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the understanding and application of the properties of matter. Materials scientists study the connections between the underlying ...

There are still things that spin even faster. Researchers at Purdue University once created an object that spins at 300 ...

Fermilab engineers are developing innovative solutions to build durable particle detector targets for neutrino experiments.

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

Does disconnection with the ground cause us to become sicker? That's the idea behind the practice of "grounding" or "earthing ...

A breakthrough discovery in indium selenide could revolutionize memory storage technology by enabling crystalline-to-glass ...

Materials scientists can now use insight from a very common mineral and well-established earthquake and avalanche statistics to quantify how hostile environmental interactions may impact the ...