The American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching have released a new research classification of colleges and universities. The new framework relies on ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting asteroids from the outer asteroid belt may have brought it with them.

On Friday and Saturday, the sports club will host events celebrating its Children’s First (CR1) football project – which provides free transport, food, life skills and football training to ...

Materials science is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the understanding and application of the properties of matter. Materials scientists study the connections between the underlying ...

Soft materials are materials that can be easily deformed by thermal stresses or thermal fluctuations at about room temperature. Soft materials include liquids, polymers, foams, gels, colloids ...

Materials Advances published a number of themed collections every year on timely and important topics, guest edited by members of the materials science community. Previous themed collections are ...

Natural materials, such as wool and wood, come from living things or the ground. Synthetic materials, like plastic, are made from chemicals. Materials have different properties that make them ...

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 ...

Export Building Material Classifications as IFC Classification References: This is an additional feature of the IFC output that complies with local regulations. When an IFC material is exported ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have taken Democratic Republic of Congo’s strategic city of Bukavu in the country’s mineral-rich east. This means M23 now controls all of eastern Congo’s border with ...

These materials are made up of discrete particles, free to move and slide relative to one another.” PAMs defy this binary classification. “With PAMs, the individual particles are linked as they are in ...

Researchers have developed high-performance nano-architected materials that have the strength of carbon steel but the lightness of Styrofoam. Developed by researchers at the University of Toronto ...