The frustrating cracks that appear on newly painted surfaces could soon be a thing of the past. Physicists in India have calculated how the properties of paint, such as the size of the constituent ...

Cracks in paint coatings could soon become a thing of the past. In a new study, researchers from the Raman Research Institute (RRI) in Bengaluru have found a way to delay the onset of cracks after ...

French scientists have been watching paint drops dry and monitoring the resulting patterns in hopes of finding ways to better control the drying process to reduce cracks and other imperfections. They ...

A coffee spill leaves behind a dark stain around the puddle’s edge when it dries. But as drops of paint dry, some look like “fried eggs,” with “yolks” of color surrounded by pristine white halos, ...

“As a picture ages, and the paint dries out — it takes about fifty years — it cracks in a certain pattern. What we call the craquelure.” In Robertson Davies' novel What's Bred In The Bone, Francis ...