This test isn’t about style or spectacle it’s about limits. A proto-lightsaber pushing temperatures around 4000 degrees meets ...

When engineers want to make a metal stronger, one of the most reliable strategies is to use smaller grains—the microscopic ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) conducted a series of large-scale tests to investigate factors that affect flame spread ...

Materials science is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the understanding and application of the properties of matter. Materials scientists study the connections between the underlying ...

For the first time, physicists in Italy have created a 'lump soliton': an extremely stable packet of light waves which can travel through 3D space, and even interact with other solitons without losing ...

Porous materials are materials with pores (cavities, channels or interstices). The characteristics of a porous material vary depending on the size, arrangement and shape of the pores, as well as the ...