Machine-learning models can speed up the discovery of new materials by making predictions and suggesting experiments. But most models today only consider a few specific types of data or variables.

Materials science explores the structure and properties of materials — semiconductors, metals, ceramics, polymers, composites and more — to understand and improve their performance. From smartphone ...

research laboratory to study “bad bubbles” that cause defects in metal alloys used to produce engine turbine blades and semiconductor crystals that are crucial components in electronic devices.

Their experiments revealed that, in three-dimensional materials, fracture can begin when the material reaches a critical stress. A tiny broken region nucleates, not as the familiar line-shaped crack, ...

In 2009, NASA executed a controlled crash of a rocket stage into the Moon's Cabeus crater as part of the LCROSS mission, ...