Inspired by the humble deep-sea sponge, RMIT University engineers have developed a new material with remarkable compressive ...

Charging forward at top speed, a garden snail slimes up 1 millimeter of pavement per second. By this logic, Beckman Institute ...

The $44,757 grant is earmarked to enhance community spaces in five of the city’s parks. The funds were used to purchase new picnic tables and benches and make other improvements so visitors and ...

Bioinspired materials are synthetic materials whose structure, properties or function mimic those of natural materials or ... is a challenge in bottom-up synthetic biology. Here, the authors ...

Nature Materials is a monthly multi-disciplinary journal aimed at bringing together cutting-edge research across the entire spectrum of materials science and engineering. Materials research is a ...

His startup, VSParticle, offers what is, in effect, a nanoscale 3D printer: using a technique called spark ablation, it builds up a thin film of novel materials one nanoparticle at a time ...

They called it the “monkey trial.” It was supposed to be a publicity stunt. A hundred years later, it is remembered as far ...

Kevin Morris, the owner of Star Construction Sheds, has noticed a slight increase in prices for materials ... “If you do wait and it does go up, you could be paying a little more.” ...

Look up what’s happening in your area. Earth’s warming could trigger sweeping changes in the natural world that would be hard, if not impossible, to reverse. The agency was created to protect ...

President Donald Trump officially increased tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports to 25% on Wednesday, promising that the taxes would help create U.S. factory jobs at a time ...

The Natural History Museum Ice Rink has now closed. After an incredible 16 years of ice skating at the Museum, the five-acre gardens on which the rink used to sit have now been transformed into a hub ...

Students reacted to a California bill that, if passed, would make it illegal for companies to sell such products to shoppers under 18 years old. By The Learning Network We invite students to ...