Thomas Allen receives funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) as a co-investigator of the UK Metamaterials Network. He worked with HEAD Sport GmbH on auxetic ...

U.S. stocks ended higher Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average notching a fresh record peak ahead of Labor Day weekend. The Dow rose 228.03 points, or 0.6%, to close at 41,563.08. The S&P 500 ...

Materials are usually seen as either soft (like rubber) or hard (like steel). But what if materials could change their stiffness whenever needed—soft for cushioning, stiff for support? Mechanical ...

Until now, designing complex metamaterials with specific mechanical properties required large and costly experimental and simulation datasets. The method enables ...

An international research team has developed mechanical metamaterials with a high elastic energy density. Highly twisted rods that deform helically provide these metamaterials with a high stiffness ...

The stock market isn’t as boring and complicated as you might think Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The ...

Stock ticker symbols like NFLX help identify specific stocks on exchanges like Nasdaq. Modifiers in tickers signal investment specifics, e.g., "A" for Class A shares. Understanding stock tickers ...

You might have woken up this morning to see Sirius XM Holdings (NASDAQ: SIRI) down a whopping 7% on early trading. And now, at time of publishing, it’s back up over 4% in midday trading. What’s going ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a record high on Monday as investors tried to move on from a steep sell-off earlier this month. The 30-stock index closed up 65.44 points, or 0.16%, at ...

There has been a sudden and violent shift in the global markets. $6.5 trillion has been erased. Traders are calling it the Great Unwind, a reordering of the world’s capital flows as financial and ...

A swift and sudden downdraft in global stocks is raising concern among ordinary investors about the impact on their portfolios and 401(k) plans. The S&P 500 slid 160 points, or 3%, to 5,186 on Monday, ...

U.S. stocks tumbled after markets, rattled by reports of a slowing American economy, recorded heavy declines in Asia and Europe. Data delayed at least 15 minutes Source: FactSet By The New York Times ...