The Conversation reports on winter jackets, blending old physics and modern materials to efficiently trap heat, ensuring ...

Hotter objects typically glow brighter than cooler ones, making them stand out in infrared images. But a newly designed coating bucks the rule that hotter equals brighter. For certain wavelengths of ...

Generative AI models have been used to create enormous libraries of theoretical materials that could help solve all kinds of ...

Multi-material 3D printing combines the functional properties of different materials (e.g., mechanical, electrical, color) within a single object that is fabricated without manual assembly. However, ...

Excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, polluted water, and increasingly strict environmental regulations are driving the ...

When it comes to the 3D printing of metal, a process known as selective laser sintering (SLS) is most commonly used. An upside-down variation on the technique has now been developed, for printing ...

Materials are a necessity for all engineering applications. Materials science and engineering seeks to understand the fundamental physical origins of material behavior in order to optimize properties ...

Two books explore the meaning and impact of material objects in the Soviet Union. Golubev’s intriguing work closely follows a recent academic trend that focuses on how objects facilitate historical ...

Infrared cameras are the heat-sensing eyes that help drones find their targets even in the dead of night or through heavy fog. Hiding from such detectors could become much easier, thanks to a new ...