A team of scientists led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has identified a rare, ...

Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner ...

Some materials behave unexpectedly. They crack differently than expected, or react in ways that are hard to explain. The ...

A new shape-shifting material can change both its texture and color in seconds, inspired by the camouflage abilities of ...

Picture the Pantheon in Rome. Considering that it was built in CE 128, it has held together remarkably well under the footsteps of hundreds of millions of visitors over the centuries. If the ancient ...

Data center servers, powerful smartphones, and your computer's motherboard have one thing in common. When these devices get too hot, their performance takes a hit, and we can't have that. That's why ...

Scientists have come up with a novel material for cleaning up oil spills on land. Mats of human hair and dog fur successfully absorb oil from hard surfaces — but not so well from sand. Oil spills are ...