Recent structural collapses, including tragedies in Surfside, Florida, Pittsburgh, New York City and Davenport. Iowa, have centered the need for more frequent and thorough inspections of aging ...

Your knees crack when you stand up, but you dismiss it as normal aging or leftover effects from old sports injuries. However, researchers have discovered that certain knee cracking patterns can ...

Standard photolithography techniques produce various micropatterns but are limited to a feature size of approximately a micron 1. To overcome this limitation, conventional nanolithography techniques ...

Whenever an object, like a stone or a bullet, pierces through brittle materials like glass or Plexiglass, the energy expended by the impact results in a characteristic cracking pattern that extends ...

Craic on: was the Giant's Causeway formed by collective cracking? The formation of the spectacular hexagonal stone columns at Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway and similar structures around the world can be ...

Researchers are trying to make the process more efficient and definitive by using artificial intelligence, combined with a classic mathematical method for quantifying web-like networks, to determine ...