modern materials

Self-healing materials are a thing of the future, but certainly not a distant future. For instance, NASA plans to wrap...

Materials scientists in California have made a special metallic glass with a strength and toughness greater than any known material,...

Attention recruits. Those of you landing in Afghanistan in coming months may not have to engage in the sandbag stacking...

A dance floor that harnesses people power, and other engineering innovations in action

New gear makes summer grilling safer, simpler and, yes, even tastier-just in time for July 4th