An international team of scientists have combined cyclic-olefin copolymers with a powder of aluminum oxide to create a ...

Using a custom-built machine to launch microprojectiles at supersonic speeds, Cornell researchers have uncovered new details ...

Introduction Body armor is protective clothing that can deflect or absorb the impact of bullets or other weapons used against its user.

In a groundbreaking leap for sustainable space exploration, Japan has launched the world's first wooden satellite, aptly ...

The satellite is made from magnolia wood, which was historically used for samurai sheaths. The world’s first wooden satellite ...

A Japanese team launched LignoSat, the world's first wooden satellite, to the International Space Station (ISS). This 10-cm³ ...

Materials science is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the understanding and application of the properties of matter. Materials scientists study the connections between the underlying ...

Japan has launched the world's first wooden satellite, LignoSat, to explore the potential of timber as a sustainable resource in space. The satellite, made from a Japanese magnolia tree, will test the ...

The idea originated in 2017 from a question posed by Takao Doi, a Japanese engineer and former NASA astronaut: Could a human society living in space grow trees as renewable building material? “We were ...

Mechanical properties are physical properties that a material exhibits upon the application of forces. Examples of mechanical properties are the modulus of elasticity, tensile strength ...

Their study was published in Nature Chemistry. A joint research team has developed a technology to produce high-value-added plastic raw materials called dicarboxylic acids (α,ω-diacids ...