Stress, fatigue and heavy loads aren't always negative elements of work - in fact, they are what attracted Jennifer Forrester to the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
In recent years, many airplane manufacturers have started building their planes from advanced composite materials, which consist of high-strength fibers, such as carbon or glass, embedded in a plastic
Researchers at Rice University have created a synthetic material that gets stronger from repeated stress much like the body strengthens bones and muscles after repeated workouts.
An international team of researchers from Australia, Italy and Austria (Austrian Academy of Sciences Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Research) is the production of highly ordered porous crysta
Experts at the University of Leicester’s Space Research Centre are working with colleagues at De Montfort University to create a handheld device which will detect fake whisky and wine – through the bo
Self-oscillating gels are materials that continuously change back and forth between different states - such as color or size - without provocation from external stimuli. These changes are caused by th
