Scientists at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History are preserving its archives in digital format, making it possible for anyone to 3D print its artifacts.
How to 3D print a dinosaur
Science solves seashell material mystery
Scientists have long been puzzled by a process that is crucial to much of the life in Earth’s oceans: Why does calcium carbonate, the tough material of seashells and corals, sometimes take the form of calcite, and at other times form a chemically identical form of the mineral called aragonite?
Beer brewing waste makes biomaterials for bones
Researchers in Spain developed biocompatible materials to be used as support for bone regeneration from the food industry waste, mainly bagasse (residue) from beer brewing.
North American aluminum producers and fabricators ship 25.5 billion pounds in 2014
The Aluminum Association, Arlington, Va., reports that the aluminum industry in the United States and Canada saw year-over-year demand growth of 5% through the end of 2014.
Light photographed as particle and wave for the first time
Quantum mechanics tells us that light can behave simultaneously as a particle or a wave. However, there has never been an experiment able to capture both natures of light at the same time; the closest we have come is seeing either wave or particle, but always at different times. Taking a radically different experimental approach, […]