A bacterial cell settles onto a nondescript surface. It is plump, healthy and functioning as it should. Nothing appears amiss ...

Modern civilization quietly depends on natural rubber, a material that still comes almost entirely from a single species of ...

Microbial biofilms represent one of the most formidable challenges in modern medicine, industry, and environmental systems. These structured, ...

Guided by Mars rovers’ data about Martian soil composition, the researchers explored multiple microbial mineralization ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shares in MP Materials Corp., a rare earth materials company, are surging in premarket trading on Tuesday for the second time in recent days. Last week, the stock price (NYSE: MP) skyrocketed after ...