Most solid materials we rely on, from steel, to plastics and ceramics, are designed to have specific properties. Whether a material is soft and flexible, or stiff and tough depends on how molecules ...

Computational Modeling of Failure at the Fabric Weave Level in Reentry Parachute Energy ModulatorsEnergy modulators (EM) are textile ...

Initiated irradiation testing of enriched uranium-zirconium alloy fuel material samples at the Advanced Test Reactor at Idaho ...

Part 4 of the TED Radio Hour episode What can you control in this chaotic world? What do you want out of life? Instead of ignoring daunting questions like this, designer Bill Burnett says we should ...

Cosmetic surgeons have turned to using a “fat filler” harvested from dead people in order to give patients new breasts, sexier buttocks and other body contouring tweaks, according to reporting by ...

Materials informatics sits at the intersection of experimental science, computation, and data analytics. The aim is simple: use data and models to make discovering, designing, and deploying new ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced plans to launch a creative studio that will be led by former Apple UI designer Alan Dye. As we learned earlier today, Dye is leaving his position as Vice ...

The new AI-DADA tool lets you create a unique Swatch design using AI prompts. You can’t make a custom MoonSwatch yet—but it’s not entirely off the table. It was called Swatch x You, and it let you ...

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Understanding the properties of different materials is an important step in material design. X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is an important technique for this, as it reveals detailed insights ...

Material reliability is critical in the oil and gas industry. Infrastructure ranging from pipelines to pressure vessels operates under extreme conditions where even a minor failure can lead to ...

Two separate lawsuits now allege Apple used pirated works to train one of its Apple Intelligence models. Credit: Algi Febri Sugita/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Two neuroscientists are ...