From the Bronze age to the Industrial Revolution and beyond, the discovery and development of new materials has been a driving force in human history.

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Today, the Natural History Museum, London, announced the first new permanent gallery to open since 2016, Fixing Our Broken Planet, which will open 3 April 2025. The gallery and a new programme of ...

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Caltech researchers demonstrated a new method to use light to control active matter—a kind of material made up of individual ...

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Researchers in Korea have developed a technology that automatically identifies the necessary precursor materials to ...

The late research pioneer Roberta (“Bobbie”) Colman, Willis F. Harrington Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UD, had ...

After thousands of homes were destroyed, many are looking for ways to make Los Angeles safer from wildfires. But clearing ...

New research, working toward ambient-pressure high-temperature superconductivity, brings us one step closer to finding superconductors that work in everyday conditions -- and potentially unlocking a ...

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