If a nation’s well-being depends on the strength of its families, America is in trouble. At any given time between 1950 through 1980, about 6% of 40-year-olds had never married. Then the never-married ...

MP Materials is building a business around the production of rare-earth metals. It garnered attention earlier in the year due to a government investment in the business. While excitement around MP ...

There’s new interest and funding for the field, but it’s waiting for its breakthrough moment. Judging from headlines and social media posts in recent years, one might reasonably assume that AI is ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researchers have created a new carbon-negative building material that could transform sustainable construction. The breakthrough, published in the high-impact ...

Since its invention, Kevlar has saved thousands of lives thanks to the synthetic polymer being both incredibly lightweight and incredibly strong. However, Kevlar is far from the last word on ballistic ...

From chairs built with mushroom mycelium and vegan leather sofas to fabrics originating from seaweed, unexpected materials have been slowly making inroads into our homes. With the industry under ...

July 29 (Reuters) - Building materials maker CRH (CRH.N), opens new tab said on Tuesday it has agreed to acquire Eco Material Technologies, a supplier of supplementary cementitious materials, for $2.1 ...

If you live in a noisy urban area, you're gonna love the sound of this. Researchers in Switzerland have developed a material that can dampen street noise while being four times thinner than ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Material 3 Expressive is Google's new software design language. Meant to bring both a fresh coat of paint and increased ...

Scientists have developed a material with photosynthetic bacteria that convert carbon dioxide into a mineral skeleton. The material hardens over time, so it could be used for buildings, they say. When ...

Looking to classical architecture, we find longstanding precedents for material authenticity. Stone in Gothic churches, marble in the Parthenon, and timber in Japanese temples were not superficial ...

Google has begun rolling out Gmail’s Material 3 Expressive redesign via a server-side switch to some users. Design updates include more color usage, rounded cards, minor changes to the Compose button, ...