Tag: materials science
Examining mushrooms under microscopes can help engineers design stronger materials
Mohamed Khalil Elhachimi, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Pick up a button mushroom from the supermarket and...
Light-powered reactions could make the chemical manufacturing industry more energy-efficient
Arindam Sau, University of Colorado Boulder; Amreen Bains, Colorado State University, and Anna Wolff, Colorado State University
Manufactured chemicals...
How and where is nuclear waste stored in the US?
Gerald Frankel, The Ohio State University
Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over...
Thin, bacteria-coated fibers could lead to self-healing concrete that fills in...
Mohammad Houshmand, Drexel University and Yaghoob Farnam, Drexel University
Some say there are two types of concrete – cracked...
Space rocks and asteroid dust are pricey, but these aren’t the...
Chris Impey, University of Arizona
After a journey of seven years and nearly 4 billion miles, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft...
New class of recyclable polymer materials could one day help reduce...
Katherine Harry, Colorado State University and Emma Rettner, Colorado State University
Hundreds of millions of tons of single-use plastic...
Quantum dots are part of a revolution in engineering atoms in...
Andrew Maynard, Arizona State University
The 2023 Nobel Prize for chemistry isn’t the first Nobel awarded for research in...
Glass: Neither a solid nor a liquid, this common yet complicated...
John Mauro, Penn State and Katelyn Kirchner, Penn State
Glass is a material of many faces: It is both...
EXPLORING NATURE
Giant ground sloths’ fossilized teeth reveal their unique roles in the...
Larisa R. G. DeSantis, Vanderbilt University and Aditya Reddy Kurre, University of Pennsylvania
A two-toed sloth at the...
