The use of plastics materials has increased dramatically throughout the world over the past 50 years, and now stands at roughly 100 billion pounds. Commercial plastics are known as resins in North ...

A team at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed new kinds of liquid crystals that mirror the complex structures of some solid crystals—a major step forward in building flowing materials that ...

A quarry is a site where a stone or gravel producer extracts a variety of raw materials from the earth. Common types of material extracted in quarrying activities include limestone, granite and sand.

Photoresistors, also commonly referred to as light-dependent resistors (LDRs), are a class of variables resistors which change their resistance depending on how much light is hitting the resistor.

Researchers studying a crystalline material have discovered it has properties that allow it to capture energy from the sun. The energy can be stored for several months at room temperature, and it can ...

In 2018, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that there were about 7.29 million people working in the construction industry. If you’re interested in joining all of these millions of people, you ...