When Heike Kamerlingh Onnes cooled mercury to a few degrees above absolute zero in 1911, its electrical resistance dropped ...

When Heike Kamerlingh Onnes cooled mercury to a few degrees above absolute zero in 1911, its electrical resistance dropped ...

CAT project, T-DOG offers a wider processing window and broader material compatibility for thermoplastic composites.

MIT researchers add mechanophores to polymers, boosting impact resistance and opening paths to tougher tires and electronics ...

When a person coughs or sneezes, they expel a cloud of microscopic particles capable of carrying viruses and bacteria that ...

Researchers developed a new system to fire tiny beads and test how polymer films would react to projectile impacts. The top row, in color, shows a 3D-view of the exit-side of impacts. The middle row ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. For roughly six decades, the semiconductor industry has followed a simple and reliable formula: make transistors smaller, pack more of them onto a chip, ...

We visited Finland’s 40-square-meter Aalto Ice and Wave Tank to see how engineers study sea ice, waves, and Arctic ship design under controlled conditions.

Scientists at Kyoto University took a fresh look at Strontium Ruthenate (Sr₂RuO₄), a material that has puzzled researchers ...

In the mid-1960s, inside a research laboratory run by DuPont, Stephanie Kwolek was searching for something fairly practical.

Polymer bearings do not operate in isolation. Their performance depends on how bearing materials mating surfaces, housings, ...

It is pretty flipping hot out there with the record for the hottest May bank holiday ever being broken yesterday.