materials science
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That approach has paid off in a paper published today in Science Advances, in which Ouellette and his colleagues used a strategy inspired by materials science to analyze the dynamics of a flying swarm. — Quanta Magazine, "How Swarming Insects Act Like Fluids," 10 July 2019 The combined entity would operate as a holding company with three independent businesses — Corteva Agriscience, the agriculture division; Dow, the material sciences division, and DuPont, the specialty products division. — Alexandria Burris, Indianapolis Star, "Indy spent $30M to keep Corteva’s 1,000-plus jobs, but company cagey about the future," 7 July 2019 The latter will focus on six research areas, including medicine and materials science. — Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, "Hong Kong researchers forge ties with mainland China even as protesters fight for autonomy," 18 June 2019 The bride, 33, who will take her husband’s name, graduated from Yale and received a doctoral degree in materials science and engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. — New York Times, "Vicky Doan-Nguyen, Edward Trigg," 13 May 2018 The research is having a significant impact on robotics, materials science and a range of other fields. — David L. Hu, WSJ, "Robot Design Goes Back to Nature," 9 Nov. 2018 As Caltech professor of materials science William L. Johnson explains, the internal stress causes the glass to yield more easily to any introduced stress on its surface. — Shannon Liao, The Verge, "Why your brand-new smartphone will scratch just as easily as your old one," 19 Oct. 2018 According to Anish Tuteja, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at U of M, sixty percent or more of a ship’s fuel is used to overcome drag. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "Navy Testing Superhydrophobic Hull Coatings For Submarines," 5 July 2018 In the Marvel superhero’s newest movie adaptation, his vibranium shield defies everything that physics and materials science has taught us. — Rhett Allain, WIRED, "The Many Shades of Bad Physics," 8 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'materials science.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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