materials

Researchers hope that working out the behaviours of soft solids, which can act like either solids or liquids, may make for tastier cakes – and safer...

Aditya Sadhanala wanders over to the wall, turns a pulley, and a wooden box about a metre squared swings up and away. Below it gleams an array of...

At any one time over half a million people are flying far above our heads in modern aircraft. Their lives depend on the performance of the special...

The Periodic Table may not sound like a list of ingredients but, for a group of materials scientists, it’s the starting point for designing the...

Scientific imaging techniques are uncovering secrets locked in medieval illuminated manuscripts – including those of a thrifty duke.

A new imaging facility offers researchers in Cambridge and beyond the chance to see what lies within objects, without breaking them open.

A Cambridge Science Festival lecture on Wednesday (13 March 2013) will look at how plants grow through repeating patterns and discuss what we can...

Researchers are aiming to develop a new class of materials with remarkable properties using one atom-thick substances such as graphene and other two...