New materials designed by a University of Illinois Chicago graduate student may help scientists meet one of today's biggest ...

The answer lies in how a car’s side-view mirrors are designed. They are convex, meaning they are curved or rounded outward.

Researchers have created a new material that will be pivotal in making the next generation of high-power electronics faster, transparent and more efficient.

Octopuses have a superpower. They can cling to nearly any surface, no matter how wet or slippery, with their sucker-lined ...

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 ...

There are still things that spin even faster. Researchers at Purdue University once created an object that spins at 300 ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

Enough landmines are buried underground worldwide to circle Earth twice at the equator, but the identification and removal of these explosives is costly and time-consuming. New research could help ...

Does disconnection with the ground cause us to become sicker? That's the idea behind the practice of "grounding" or "earthing ...

Shravan Pradeep and colleagues use a series of mechanical tests and advanced imaging techniques to understand how the mud ...

A breakthrough discovery in indium selenide could revolutionize memory storage technology by enabling crystalline-to-glass ...