We know that our unwanted items, which we dutifully put in plastic trash bags that are carted from our vision, don’t vanish. In the United States, most trash still goes to landfills, where it becomes ...

Bernard Akoi-Jackson, “Untitled (Goldman)” (2012) (image courtesy of the artist) EAST LANSING, Mich. — The conceptual foundation for Material Effects, and the first thing you encounter upon entering ...

Three Ph.D. candidates in history—Emily Wells, Jennifer Merriman, and Qiong Wu—received Boswell-Caracci Material Culture Study Fund grants to reach beyond campus and their primary fields to connect ...

Material World is a weekly roundup of innovations and ideas within the materials sector, covering news from emerging biomaterials and alternative leathers to sustainable substitutes and future-proof ...

Western culture tends to view the afterlife as something to be feared, “the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns,” according to Big Willie Shakespeare. In Haitian culture, the ...

These days, our lives revolve around the digital world. Money, culture, news, gossip – all of it lives there. Generative artificial intelligence is the biggest story in the world, but could you point ...

To see the latest batch of talent emerging from Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, look no further than Gallery 100 on Tuesday, November 20. Drawing majors, ...