Materials and Chemistry

26+ min ago   (88+ words) The history of human industry is, in many ways, a history of how we connect materials. From the earliest metallurgical bonds forged by ancient smiths to the complex multi-material assemblies of the modern era, the ability to join advanced or…...

1+ hour, 18+ min ago   (95+ words) Every seed is a masterpiece of biological engineering, a compact package in which molecular order and cellular design are woven together to protect and nourish a future plant. For scientists trying to understand how crops such as the yellow pea…...

1+ hour, 55+ min ago   (718+ words) Arsenic in the groundwater of Bangladesh remains one of the world’s most severe environmental health crises, with naturally mobilized arsenic exceeding guideline values across large parts of the Bengal Basin....

5+ hour, 57+ min ago   (34+ words) What you see on Instagram is only a minute sampling of what is possible to portray on camera It is …...

6+ hour, 45+ min ago   (658+ words) For decades, one of the most stubborn bottlenecks in building faster, greener computer memory has been a simple question of timing: how do you deliver an electrical pulse short enough and powerful enough to flip a magnetic bit in a…...

8+ hour, 30+ min ago   (556+ words) Researchers have unveiled a data-driven framework that uses machine learning to decipher how the parameters of metal additive manufacturing shape the microscopic grain structures that determine a component’s strength, ductility, and durability....

15+ hour, 38+ min ago   (487+ words) A few atoms of aluminum oxide could solve a key trade-off holding back next-generation 2D semiconductor technology. Taiwanese researchers have developed a new atomically thin “primer coat” for molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂) that lets you put an extremely thin gate insulator on top…...

17+ hour, 51+ min ago   (818+ words) Nitinol, the remarkable nickel-titanium alloy that can remember its shape and flex thousands of times without deforming, has long been prized for everything from medical stents to aerospace couplings and dent-resistant bearings. Yet one stubborn question has haunted engineers who…...

22+ hour, 23+ min ago   (393+ words) "Nuclear reactors are designed to operate for several decades, but we cannot wait that long to understand how materials will hold up in extreme nuclear environments," said Mehmet Topsakal, a materials scientist in the Nuclear Science and Security Department at…...

19+ hour, 56+ min ago   (904+ words) Medicinal chemists have long chased a deceptively simple goal: build drug candidates that are less flat, more three-dimensional, and more likely to succeed in the clinic....