Imagine a T-shirt that could monitor your heart rate or blood pressure. Or a pair of socks that could provide feedback on your running stride. It may be closer than you think, with new research ...

The materials that make up all the structures and physical systems around us, including our own bodies, are not perfect—they ...

Aluminum has become the second most important metal in gunmaking after steel. An ever-increasing number of firearms, ...

Concrete's greatest weakness is its tensile strength, which can be less than 10% of its compressive strength. So, we often reinforce it to create a composite material strong against all types of ...

Imagine a T-shirt that could monitor your heart rate or blood pressure. Or a pair of socks that could provide feedback on your running stride.It may ...

Amazon’s Sustainable Materials Innovation Lab is trying to design a kind of plastic that's cleaner to make—and easier to ...

In a recent development in construction materials research, a study published in Engineering by Peizhao Zhou and Peng Feng from Tsinghua University ...

Imagine a T-shirt that could monitor your heart rate or blood pressure. Or a pair of socks that could provide feedback on ...

Scientists have bred spiders that weave red draglines, proving that the animals’ silk can be genetically re-engineered.

Decades of controlled experiments in material failure have shown that even when a perfectly symmetrical crack is created under tensile forces ... Incorporating both types of force and the internal ...