Quantum spin liquids are exotic states of matter in which spins (i.e., the intrinsic angular momentum of electrons) do not ...

Since his postdoctoral days at MIT, Hang Yu, associate professor of materials science and engineering, has been wrestling ...

Following protests, pushback, the Michigan Public Service Commission conditionally approve special contracts for DTE to power the massive 2.2-million-square-foot, 1.4-gigawatt data center in Saline To ...

Material Kitchen’s reBoard, made from recycled plastic and renewable sugarcane, was one of its first products, launched about a year after the company started in 2019. It was also the item that — at ...

For decades, the construction industry followed a familiar rhythm: design came first, materials followed. The pressing need for sustainable buildings has shattered this routine. Material selection is ...

New research from the Data Provenance Initiative has found a dramatic drop in content made available to the collections used to build artificial intelligence. By Kevin Roose Reporting from San ...

How to explain the British writer Dolly Alderton to an American audience? It might be best to let her work speak for itself — it certainly does! — but Alderton is such a cultural phenomenon in her ...

MATERIAL GIRL. Your first associations with this glamorous phrase might be Madonna’s 1984 hit of the same name. However, if you’re active on TikTok, or virtually anywhere on the internet at this point ...

It’s taken more than three decades, but scientists believe they have created a material that’s almost impossible to break and could rival diamond as the hardest substance on the planet. An ...

Online privacy is complex, encompassing debates over law enforcement’s data access, government regulation and what information companies can collect. This chapter examines Americans’ perspectives on ...