Making big things out of the world's strongest material has been the goal of materials engineers for the past few years. A team at MIT has figured out a way to do it, but along the way they made ...

It's incredibly strong and has unique electrical, thermal, optical, and chemical properties, but in some ways Graphene's two-dimensional structure makes it a bit like the laser was in the 1960s – a ...

Natural materials such as wood and bone owe their high strength-to-weight ratio not just to the materials from which they're made, but to the way in which those materials are structured within them.

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 100, No. 6 (June 2013), pp. 1191-1201 (11 pages) Premise of the study: The global distribution of mangroves is attributed to interactions between long-distance ...