By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO, June 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. government awarded $500 million on Wednesday to startup ...

Companies working at the frontier of aerospace, energy and computing are constantly looking for new materials to improve ...

Rare earth elements (REEs) are essential for everyday technologies such as smartphones, LED lights, wind turbines and many ...

Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered new materials and a new process that could advance the ever-escalating quest to make smaller, faster, and affordable microchips used across modern electronics ...

M (MMM) installs rare atomic-scale electron microscope to speed materials R&D, linking structure to performance across ...

China aims to accelerate the industrialization of new materials like superconducting materials, graphene and liquid metal ...

Maryland-based startup InventWood is set to mass-produce the first batches of 'Superwood,' a new material made of modified timber that's stronger than regular barky stems, and even stronger than steel ...

History has shown that materials science has long prized symmetry and stability, celebrating crystals whose atoms lock into place like repeating tiles on an infinite floor. It is this type of order ...

Scientists at Rice University and University of Houston have developed an innovative, scalable approach to engineer bacterial cellulose into high-strength, multifunctional materials. Using a spinning ...

Materials suppliers are responding to the intense pressures to improve power, performance, scaling, and cost issues, which follows a long timeline from synthesis to development and high volume ...

In 1905, a young American scientist named William Coolidge set to work on an ambitious assignment for his new job at General Electric: creating a better light bulb. The carbon filament used in Thomas ...