Understanding the way a wave moves through granular materials—after an earthquake, for example—has vast implications for modern science. After all, scientists use stress wave propagation through ...

Granular matter is all around us. Examples include sand, rice, nuts, coffee and even snow. These materials are made of solid particles that are large enough not to experience thermal fluctuations.

Terracotta is a wonderfully earthy, traditional Italian material, derived from clay. But there's more to it than flower pots, as this collection of modern ...

Soft materials include liquids, polymers, foams, gels, colloids, granular materials, as well as most soft biological materials. Featured. Multimaterial 3D-printed structures from colour-selective ...

Engineers smash rocks to gain new insights into rapid compaction of granular materials Johns Hopkins team uses X-ray technology to observe what occurs when the top layer of an asteroid-like object is ...

But terra-cotta, the clay-baked ceramic, went out of style as a building material in the mid-20th century as developers increasingly turned toward the more in vogue glass curtain wall.

Flowing granular materials exhibit fluid-like features, but not all of them can be described by extending fluid mechanics. Here, the authors show vortex flow in a granular layer sheared between ...