The mechanical strength and toughness of engineering materials are often mutually exclusive, posing challenges for material design and selection. To address this, a research team from The Hong Kong ...

The University of Oregon entered into a publishing agreement with academic publishing company Springer Nature in May, joining ...

Many European ecosystems—whether it's forests, rivers, fields, or meadows—are in poor condition. Despite all conservation ...

A new leap in lab automation is shaking up how scientists discover materials. By switching from slow, traditional methods to real-time, dynamic chemical experiments, researchers have created a ...

Researchers at Northeastern University have discovered how to change the electronic state of matter on demand, a breakthrough that could make electronics 1,000 times faster and more efficient.

The functionally graded materials (FGM) structures achieve a combination of high strength and ductility compared with uniform alloy structure. Mg–Zn FGM has great application value in many fields such ...

A research team including members from the University of Michigan have unveiled a new observational technique that's sensitive to the dynamics of the intrinsic quantum jiggles of materials, or phonons ...