Boulder, Colorado — Researchers at the University of Colorado are giving new meaning to the question, "Does it pass the smell test?" Believe it or not, a scratch-and-sniff test may be the best hope, ...

It might not seem like scraping the top of a cold stick of butter with a knife could be a scientific test, but engineers at MIT say the process is very similar to the "scratch test," which is perhaps ...

The standard scratch test is routinely used to test the coatings’ mechanical stability on different types of substrates and has become a sensitive method to manage the reliability of the manufacturing ...