A 2024 study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology examines a faience head of a bearded male found at Tel Abel Beth Maacah, proposing it represents an elite or royal figure and was likely ...

“The faience head combines the requisite qualities of material, workmanship, colour, and brightness, upgrading the figure’s status to that of an elite male,” the authors wrote. Distinctive ...

Apr. 10, 2025 — When materials are created on a nanometer scale -- just a handful of atoms thick -- even the thermal energy present at room temperature can cause structural ripples. How these ...

A team of biomaterial engineers, environmental resource specialists and industrial design researchers affiliated with a host of institutions across Japan has developed a biodegradable material ...

Material-Skin is a HTML5/Javascript user-interface for Lyrion Music Server, suitable for mobile and desktop usage. The Screenshots wiki page has more screenshots. For more information, please refer to ...

Materials science is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the understanding and application of the properties of matter. Materials scientists study the connections between the underlying ...

Soft materials are materials that can be easily deformed by thermal stresses or thermal fluctuations at about room temperature. Soft materials include liquids, polymers, foams, gels, colloids ...

The clusters hold over half their weight in CO2 to become a carbon sink. Material could replace sand in concrete and be used in other construction materials while trapping CO2. Using seawater ...

"Using faience tiles as the fascia wrapping around the cafe was a way to connect the building to this material history," said Saleem. The tiles were made by Darwen Terracotta, a Blackburn-based ...

US manufacturing slipped back into contraction territory this month, plagued by a tariff-related rise in materials costs, while the service sector outlook deteriorated. The S&P Global flash March ...