A closet-sized isolation cell in the Lake County jail has become a place of last resort as patients in mental health crisis wait for beds at the state-run mental hospital.

A new study led by a pair of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst turns long-held conventional wisdom about a certain type of polymer on its head, greatly expanding understanding of ...

Researchers have figured out how to make wood much stronger by injecting it with iron minerals found in soil. This discovery, while still experimental, might eventually transform how we build ...

Researchers across US institutions set out to enhance the properties of wood to create a "high-performance, eco-friendly ...

Researchers wanted to determine if adding extremely hard minerals at the nanoscale could make the walls of wood cells ...