Install
Please confirm you are human
This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.
A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.
News
In 1903, a mining engineer staked a claim on Arizona's Meteor Crater, convinced a fortune in iron lay beneath the floor, and spent 26 years drilling for a meteorite that had mostly vaporized on impact — his family still owns the crater today, and science later proved him right about everything except the treasure
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (26+ words) A wealthy engineer bet his fortune on a hole in the ground that science said was worthless, and spent three decades proving the experts catastrophically wrong....
New Aramid Films Matched to Extreme Environments by Co-Monomer Design
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (592+ words) Para-aramid polymers such as poly(p-phenylene terephthalamide), better known by trade names like Kevlar, have long been celebrated for their extraordinary combination of strength, thermal stability and chemical resistance. A fully aromatic backbone locked together by dense intermolecular hydrogen bonding…...
Cornell professor wins Balzan Prize for sustainable polymer research
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (323+ words) Cornell University chemistry professor Geoffrey Coates has been named a co-winner of the Balzan Prize for research that turns renewable materials and recovered carbon dioxide into degradable and recyclable polymers. The international award carries about $930,000 for each subject prize, with…...
Aluminium eggshells take on space debris with nearly 65% impact reduction
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (591+ words) Researchers at Dalian University of Technology in China have tested a spacecraft protection structure made from water-filled aluminium eggshells, with the design reducing the velocity of an impact projectile by nearly 65 per cent. The research, published in the Journal of…...
Chemistry professor honored for work on biodegradable polymers
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (322+ words) Geoffrey Coates, Tisch University Professor of chemistry and chemical biology in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), was named a co-winner of the Balzan Prize for his work transforming renewable feedstocks and recovered carbon dioxide into high-performance, degradable and…...
Raindrop-inspired equation set reveals polymer coating makes iron corrode faster yet fracture later
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (164+ words) 5-year clinical trial in 1108 patients validates a new biodegradable stent strategy Credit: ©Science China Press Inspired by the Poisson raindrop question in mathematics, Professor Jiandong Ding at Fudan University derived a set of equations for the spatiotemporal evolution of random…...
Molecular Architecture Control Yields Strong and Flexible Degradable Food Packaging Materials
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (456+ words) Virginia Tech researchers have put that idea to the test, creating degradable polymers with a new molecular architecture that combines properties that are often difficult to achieve in one material: strength, toughness, flexibility, and the ability to block oxygen. The…...
Creep and Stress Relaxation in Engineering Plastics: Designing for Long-Term Loads
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (907+ words) Engineering plastics can appear rigid and reliable in short tests yet continue to change for years under load, making stress, temperature, molecular structure, reinforcement, and predictive modeling central to whether a component retains its shape, strength, and function. The tensile…...
Hideki Shirakawa, pioneer of conductive plastics, dies at 90
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (711+ words) Federation: Log in through a federation service that connects your organization to multiple systems. Use this option if your organization instructs you to use federated sign-in. Hideki Shirakawa, pioneer of conductive plastics, dies at 90 Corecipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize was…...
Chemists break cycloaddition ‘rule-of-five’ by simply tweaking electronic properties of molecule
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (366+ words) Source: © Ze-Xin Zhang et al, Nature Chemistry, 2026 Switching between an electron-donating group and a withdrawing one can alter the outcome of a radical cyclisation reaction – and confound the ‘rule-of-five’ that dictates that such reactions favour five-membered rings Aggarwal notes that…...