NSF early career awardee develops tools that combine human and machine intelligence to accelerate learning Crowdsourcing has brought us Wikipedia and ways to understand how HIV proteins fold... Read more
Researchers from North Carolina State University and Qatar University have developed a new “high-entropy” metal alloy that has a higher strength-to-weight ratio than any other existing metal... Read more
Unexpected result shows that in some cases, pulling apart makes cracks in metal fuse together. It was a result so unexpected that MIT researchers initially thought it must be a mistake: Unde... Read more
In a discovery that could have major implications for the aerospace, automotive and electronics industries, scientists have found a way to dramatically reduce the corrosion rate of lightweig... Read more
New research from the University of Southampton shows that copper and copper alloys will rapidly destroy norovirus – the highly-infectious sickness bug. The virus can be contracted fro... Read more
“Think about a particle that will not only help researchers detect cancer sooner but be used to treat the tumor, too.” Alloys like bronze and steel have been transformational for centuries,... Read more
“It’s also the ultimate ‘green’ way to create electricity The heat given off by electronics, automobile engines, factories and other sources is a potentially huge sou... Read more