The brief was to design a contemporary home that seamlessly blended into the beautiful country surrounding it – here the design team behind the project talk us through how they achieved it ...

Synthetic materials are made from natural resources. Synthetic materials are made by chemically changing the starting substances to create a material with different characteristics. Some examples of ...

Last year, US retail sales of plant-based meat were ... and that if we harness natural technology, we can live better lives with better food and better materials at no cost to the planet.

Scientists at Duke University have developed a gel-based material that could serve as a replacement for knee cartilage. This ...

In a step towards developing advanced materials for functional coatings, a research group from Japan, developed a technology that combines structural color coating with super water-repellent ...

A biomaterial that can mimic certain behaviors within biological tissues could advance regenerative medicine, disease modeling, soft robotics and more, according to researchers at Penn State.