Segmentation and repetition of structural motifs is a “Universal” rule of construction in biology: Nature abound in examples of segmented materials and structures including spines segmented into ...

Developing and manufacturing effective, safe, reliable new drugs or critical new materials for use in semiconductors or applications involving dangerous materials requires many layers of knowledge.

In science and engineering, it's unusual for innovation to come in one fell swoop. It's more often a painstaking plod through ...

In the not too distant future, an integrated multiscale analysis system for the design of a reliable engineering structure to sustain harsh environmental conditions within a predetermined lifetime may ...

A new study, “Inter-Species Interactions in Dual, Fibrous Gels Enable Control of Gel Structure and Rheology” published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), uncovers how ...

Concrete structures are engineered to withstand extreme dynamic loads, notably those imposed by blast events. The study of blast resistance and penetration mechanics involves understanding the complex ...

The environment that surrounds cells in a tissue or organ, the extracellular matrix, is arguably just as critical to cell function as the cell itself. Researchers from the University of Illinois at ...

In a preprint paper, scientists concluded that the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt—believed to be the oldest of the ...

Abstract: In both large-eddy simulation (LES) with actuator line model (ALM) representations of wind turbine blades and in analysis of data from a GE field campaign, we have previously shown three ...