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Materials & Engineering

Innovations in materials science, from nanomaterials and graphene to 3D printing and advanced manufacturing.

Scales of justice unbalanced, with legal documents and money on one side and a federal building casting a shadow on the other, symbolizing the Supreme Court's ruling.

Supreme Court Blocks Roundup Lawsuits Over Federal Warning Rules

State courts had awarded verdicts exceeding $1 million to Roundup users who developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma, but the Supreme Court just blocked thousands more from seeking similar justice.

Samuel Adebayo· Jun 28· 3 min read

AI Agents Accelerate Scientific Discovery and Shape Coding's Future

An OpenAI model has disproved an 80-year-old conjecture in discrete geometry, solving the unit distance problem.

Samuel Adebayo· May 22· 2 min

Explainers

What Are Smart Materials and Why Do They Matter for the Future?

Samuel Adebayo · Jun 21

What are self-healing materials and how do they work?

Samuel Adebayo · Jun 20

Supreme Court Blocks Roundup Lawsuits Over Federal Warning Rules

Poland's Economy Booms While Its Science Sector Faces Decline

Plasma-Flow Control Overturns Fundamental Aeronautical Engineering Principles

Google unveils AI science, Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O 2026

Joy of Why podcast season five previews 2026 discussions

AI Agents Accelerate Scientific Discovery and Shape Coding's Future

Explainers

What Are Smart Materials and Why Do They Matter for the Future?

What are self-healing materials and how do they work?