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The University of Iowa has been awarded $1.5 million to advance materials science research by leveraging various materials’ ...

For a long time, material development has focused on enhancing performance and reducing costs. Efforts have been directed toward making products lighter, tougher, better insulated, more beautiful, ...

Stanford researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering ...

When Angus Wilkinson was looking for case studies on research integrity to include in his presentation for a lab group meeting in November, he came across something interesting. Wilkinson, a materials ...

Researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering potential ...

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Electric vehicles promise to help wean us off of fossil fuels, but they introduce a new problem: how to get enough of the lithium that EV batteries require (SN: 5/7/19). Materials scientist Chong Liu ...

Conduction is the direct flow of heat from your warm body into your colder surroundings. In winter, all that heat escaping ...