Carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions are a major contributor to the climate crisis, and while the world works to reduce emissions, ...

In healthcare facilities, where sterile aesthetics replace trees, plants and flowers, nature-based interventions can support the well-being of patients and staff who spend much of their time indoors.

The European Commission has banned the use of Bisphenol A (BPA) in food-contact materials – including reusable plastic bottles, coatings for metal cans, and water distribution coolers – due to ...

I'm watching a black disc of wonder material hovering over a bubbling bath of liquid nitrogen. "This is superconducting magnetic levitation," says magnet scientist Greg Brittles. "The closest you ...

A research team led by scientists at Northwestern University has developed the first-ever two-dimensional mechanically interlocked material with high flexibility and strength. In the future ...

These commodities offer an example of material use decoupled from economic growth, a phenomenon called "relative dematerialization," and may argue that the U.S. is passing peak oil, peak paper ...

Resembling the interlocking links in chainmail, the nanoscale material exhibits exceptional flexibility and strength. With further work, it holds promise for use in high-performance, light-weight ...

Examples of newly permissible speech on Facebook and Instagram highlighted in the training materials include ... which “includes the use of the word ‘fuck’ and its variants.” ...

For example, amphiphiles are often ... and can be used by engineers to tailor a material's properties for different applications." "We then began a series of experiments to explore whether we could ...

A new study examines ways that carbon could be used as a key ingredient in building materials—particularly biomass plastics and cement. Obstacles still remain, as some of these technologies are ...

In 2024, superconductivity—the flow of electric current with zero resistance—was discovered in three distinct materials ... Other similar examples followed. Theorists brainstormed new ways ...