Suppose a hopper is filled with a granular material such as sand, and you need to compute the force or stress on the hopper walls.

Researchers have now managed to design new granular materials that can also easily be compressed, a result which could have great potential in applications like shock dampening.

The technique allowed water droplets to flow uphill and climb walls. This approach could control the flow of water, blood and other fluids in medical devices, the authors write.

In Feng Shui, textures and materials play a significant role in how energy moves through a room. Each material has its own tangibility that can either encourage a smooth flow of energy or create ...

Researchers have demonstrated a new technique that allows "self-driving laboratories" to collect at least 10 times more data ...

Inspired by the coats of fur on some animals, researchers at MIT have developed a flexible skin-like material covered in thousands of tiny magnetic hairs that can move in varying directions in the ...

Physicists have succeeded in measuring how the surfaces of glassy materials flow like a liquid, even when they should be solid. A series of simple and elegant experiments were the solution to a ...