On Aug. 21, Wilmington, Delaware-based global chemical company DuPont announced that it has agreed to sell an 80.1% ownership interest in the Delrin acetal homopolymer (H-POM) business to private ...

The advent of designing flexural systems was to provide accurate micro and nano displacement between the assembly members of the mechanism. Applications that used these mechanisms included linear ...

Some octopuses have incredible camouflaging abilities. Victor Micallef via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Octopuses and cuttlefish are sneaky sea creatures. To hide from predators and surprise ...

If a nation’s well-being depends on the strength of its families, America is in trouble. At any given time between 1950 through 1980, about 6% of 40-year-olds had never married. Then the never-married ...

MP Materials is building a business around the production of rare-earth metals. It garnered attention earlier in the year due to a government investment in the business. While excitement around MP ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researchers have created a new carbon-negative building material that could transform sustainable construction. The breakthrough, published in the high-impact ...

A Johns Hopkins University engineer has developed a specialized AI tool that could do for materials scientists what ChatGPT has done for coders and writers. The new system, called ChatGPT Materials ...

From chairs built with mushroom mycelium and vegan leather sofas to fabrics originating from seaweed, unexpected materials have been slowly making inroads into our homes. With the industry under ...

Material drenching creates a calm, sensory experience by using a single texture across a space. The trend moves beyond simple paint to involve wood, plaster, linen, or stone. It focuses on tactile ...