Environment
Plastics made fireproof thanks to mother-of-pearl mimic
A method for quickly coating objects in a thin, environmentally safe mother-of-pearl-like film could protect food or electronics from the elements
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Earth
Throwaway culture: The truth about recycling
Features
Earth
Invisibility cloak makes solar panels work more efficiently
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Earth
Ocean plastics from Haiti’s beaches turned into laptop packaging
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Physics
Fortified gas marbles are 10 times stronger than regular bubbles
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Physics
Twisted semiconductors could help project moving holograms
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Technology
Special steel inspired by bone is more resistant to cracking
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Technology
Old toys will self-destruct thanks to vanishing plastic
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Technology
Material that shrinks in heat can weather extreme temperatures
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Technology
Impossible alloys: How to make never-before-seen metals
From bronze to steel, alloys are the backbone of the modern world. Now a recipe that shouldn’t work is creating metal mixtures with totally unexpected abilities
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Technology
Plastic flower blooms thanks to its own internal molecular clock
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Technology
How future-proof are the ideas of Buckminster Fuller?
Culture
Environment
Artificial spider silk mimics how it acts as liquid and solid
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Technology
Fungal products won’t win prizes for glamour but will be greener
Culture