For many, diamonds are the ultimate symbol of luxury and romance. However, traditional diamond mining raises numerous ethical ...

Ultra-thin layers of silk deposited on graphene in perfect alignment represent a key advance for the control needed in microelectronics and advanced neural network development.

After thousands of years as a highly valuable commodity, silk continues to surprise. Now it may help usher in a whole new ...

Deep inside what we perceive as solid matter, the landscape is anything but stationary. The interior of the building blocks of the atom's nucleus -- particles called hadrons that most of us would ...

We should not let the site of a lab in St Petersburg that spearheaded materials science more than 250 years ago be sold to ...