Over three days in June 48 volunteers from across the Discover Materials Community (from metallurgy professors to 1st year undergraduates)…

For the third year running we ran our Mysterious Materials workshops at the Cheltenham Science Festival to four groups of…

Lizzie Driscoll, one of our Discover Materials Ambassadors, has been awarded the prestigious IOM3 Robert Perrin Award for her outstanding…

More than 7000 people flocked to the Festival of Engineering at University College London (UCL) between 15th and 20th of…

On the 29th of June 2024, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Harwell Campus opened its doors to the public for…

As part of the Salter’s Festival of Chemistry events at both Queen Mary University London (9th – 10th May) and…

On 23rd April, Leyton Sixth Form College in east London hosted a Big Bang Fair event which attracted around 800…

Non-Newtonian fluids are fluids that do not behave as you might expect and change viscosity (how it flows)  when they…

Bioplastics are materials that are made from natural, renewable sources (such as seaweed) and used to replace traditional plastics derived…