Formula 1 power units sit in a strange sweet spot where race-car engineering, high-end chemistry, and ruthless innovation all ...

Jayson Tatum finally ended the talk about friction with Jaylen Brown, making it clear there’s zero jealousy over the 2024 ...

Quick clay collapse can be both dangerous and costly. New research will help us understand more about why the clay is so ...

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Virginia Tech advances additive friction stir deposition - creating a strong, defect-free material that can be 3D printed in bulk.

Inspired by kirigami, a type of Japanese paper art, researchers have created a new material that transforms from a grid into ...

Since his postdoctoral days at MIT, Hang Yu, associate professor of materials science and engineering, has been wrestling ...

A mad scientist introduces himself to us ("Come! I show you around!") and explains his specialty is crossing things ("I cross a pine mit a apple and I get a pineapple!"). His biggest ambition is cross ...

The Swiss cheese known as Tête de Moine or “monk’s head” is served in a peculiar fashion. A specially designed blade scrapes off thin slices of the cheese wheel, rotating around its surface like a ...

Next iterations of generative AI are pushing the boundaries of deep research, with significant implications for life sciences not yet made tangible. Generative AI has already disrupted entire ...

This week's issue of C&EN introduces a new twist to a venerable feature: "Science Friction with Bob Wolke" debuts as a regular feature in Newscripts. Science Friction will appear every other week, and ...