Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

If you own a pair of white shoes or have ever tried to remove crayon from a wall, you're probably thankful for melamine sponges. These products practically erase tough stains and scuffs through their ...

Having literally risen from the ashes of a ruined experiment, Bryce C. Tappan's nanoporous metallic foams are veritable phoenixes of chemical research. With their ultralow density and remarkably high ...

(Nanowerk News) Strong enough not only for use in impact protection systems in cars, but able to absorb the shock waves produced by a detonation. Those are just some of the properties shown by the ...

How do you stop bullets using the lightest material possible? This question has inspired a string of fascinating breakthroughs from material scientists in pursuit of advanced lightweight armor that ...

Channel 2 Action News got a firsthand look at a breakthrough in technology that can save lives. It’s a composite metal foam that can stop and even disintegrate bullets. Channel 2's Tom Regan talked to ...

A new study finds that novel light-weight composite metal foams are significantly more effective at insulating against high heat than the conventional base metals and alloys that they're made of, such ...

Metallic foams are often used to provide high strength with low weight. But a new series of experiments reveals that they’re far better at providing protection from heat than their solid counterparts, ...

A new metal foam able to stop a speeding bullet is the latest in a new generation of materials with a myriad of different potential uses. When impacted by a bullet, even a fast-moving projectile ...

Back in 2014, we heard how scientists from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research had developed a wood-based foam that could be used as eco-friendly insulation. Now, they've combined it with ...

Metal foams are durable, and their small pores and large surface areas suggest they could effectively filter out microbes. Researchers have transformed copper nanowires into metal foams that could be ...

Strong enough not only for use in impact protection systems in cars, but able to absorb the shock waves produced by a detonation. Those are just some of the properties shown by the metallic foams ...