materials science – Page 2

Leonardo’s wood charring method predates Japanese practice

Skip to content Yakisugi, a Japanese technique of burning wood surfaces, creates a protective carbonized layer Credit: A. Di maria […]

Back in 2023, we reported on MIT scientists’ conclusion that the ancient Romans employed “hot mixing” with quicklime, among other […]

“To integrate the proboscis, we first removed it from an already euthanized mosquito under a microscope,” Cao explains. Then the […]

VA Tech experiment was inspired by Death Valley’s mysterious “sailing stones” at Racetrack Playa. Graduate student Jack Tapocik sets up […]

Photophoresis can generate a tiny bit of lift without any moving parts. Most people would recognize the device in the […]

It was tested for its ability to adhere to the inside of the digestive tract. Most adhesives can’t stick to […]

Martinez et al. tested three different Roman concrete recipes with varying slaked lime-to-pozzolan ratios (1:2, 1:3, and 1:4), and assessed […]

Earth is about 71 percent water. An overwhelming 97 percent of that water is found in the oceans, leaving us […]

Battery electrode materials need to do a lot of things well. They need to be conductors to get charges to […]

A new perspective Preparation procedures for infrared contacts. Credit: Sheng Wang/CC BY-SA The team tested their lenses on humans by […]