Materials Science News

It's a matchup worthy of a late-night cable movie: put a school of starving piranha and a 300-pound fish together, and who comes out the winner?

Scientists have developed a new kind of tiny motor -- which they term a "microrocket" -- that can propel itself through acidic environments, such as the human stomach

Researchers in the US have, for the first time, cloaked a three-dimensional object standing in free space, bringing the much-talked-about invisibility cloak one step closer to reality.

A superlens would let you see a virus in a drop of blood and open the door to better and cheaper electronics. It might, says Durdu Guney, make ultra-high-resolution microscopes as commonplace as cameras in our cell phones

The smallest wires ever developed in silicon -- just one atom tall and four atoms wide -- has been shown by a team of researchers to have the same current-carrying capability as copper wires.

Tansgenically engineered silkworms, exhibit the highly sought-after strength and elasticity of spider silk. Thw stronger silk could possibly be used to make sutures, artificial limbs and parachutes

Arizona State University researchers have created a new compound crystal material that promises to help produce advances in a range of scientific and technological pursuits

A common feature of sailboards, aircraft and electronic circuits is that they all contain resins used for their lightness, strength and resistance

Scientists are reporting development and successful initial testing of the first practical "smart" material that may supply the missing link in efforts to use in medicine a form of light that can penetrate four inches into the human body

A team of researchers have developed the world's lightest material -- with a density of 0.9 mg/cc -- about one hundred times lighter than Styrofoam™.