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White Graphene: The New Supermaterial That Sucks Up Pollution
There’s a new supermaterial in town, and while it might be known as white graphene, it doesn’t contain a single atom of carbon. But that doesn’t make the new form of boron nitride any less...
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The World’s Toughest Material Is Built of Knots
A scientist from the University of Trento in Italy claims to have made the world’s toughest material. But this isn’t some kind of exotic super material—it’s just made from strands of fibre with knots...
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Wood, Salt, and Wonder: The Renewable Future of 3D Printing
Weapons. Toys. Entire skulls. There’s no limit to the objects we can 3D print these days, but the materials themselves haven’t evolved as quickly—we’re still stuck in a world of plastic, steel, and...
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These Aren’t Flowers
These little things look exactly like flowers—and that’s because they’re meant to. But in real life you’d never be able to spot them, because they are in fact microscopic crystals grown on the surface...
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The Iconic Eames Molded Chair Is Being Made with Fibreglass Again
This is awesome. Herman Miller has announced that it will start making the iconic Eames Molded Chair in fibreglass… again. The fibreglass chairs were discontinued in 1989 and ever since then, the...
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Scientists Created an Impossible Supermaterial Totally by Accident
For more than a century, scientists have been saying the same thing: It’s impossible to create a water-free disordered magnesium carbonate. It’s too difficult. You’ll never amount to anything! Well,...
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New Material Could Cool Gadgets Even Better Than Diamonds Do (Wait, What?)
As electronic devices get increasingly tiny, heat management becomes a bigger and bigger problem. In gadgets that can’t practically house a fan, heat sinks do the job of keeping sensitive electronics...
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The Weird New Solid That’s Actually a Liquid
Usually, if you cool any substance down enough it will turn into a solid—the most stable state of matter that exists, according to traditional physics. But that could all be about to change, because...
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A New Carbon Supermaterial Is Stronger Than Graphene and Diamond
Move over graphene; get outta here diamond. There’s a new carbon supermaterial in town, and it’s stronger and stiffer than either of you. Researchers from Rice University in Houston have calculated the...
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We Could Build Entire Cities Out of Greenhouse Gas Some Day
A team from the University of Newcastle is perfecting a method of capturing carbon emissions and transforming them into carbonate rock bricks. They’re just part of a wave of efforts by scientists who...
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Five of the Craziest New Man-Made Materials
Forget Mother Nature: when it comes to all matters matter, the sheer ingenuity of the human mind can give rise to some of the most insane—and useful—new materials you’ve ever encountered. Here are five...
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The World’s Thinnest Sheet of Glass Is Just Two Atoms Thick
The world’s thinnest sheet of glass ever has been created, and it measure just two atoms in thickness. Better not chance dropping anything made out of that. Created by scientists at Cornell University,...
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Scientists Made a “Terminator” Polymer That Can Heal Itself Like Magic
We might not be able to build a liquid metal T-1000 killing machine yet, but we just took a huge step towards building a plastic one. Scientists have managed to develop a new polymer that—when cut in...
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Scientists Found a New Way to Turn Plastic Bags into a Supermaterial
Have you ever had a room-mate who saves plastic shopping bags just in case they ever have the need to reuse the dang things? Like, hundreds of plastic shopping bags? Well, thanks to some Australian...
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Bank Note Ink Will Help Make Quantum Computers Cheaper
Every so often, the thing you’ve been looking for all along is right under your nose. Like the latest material to offer itself up as the future of quantum computing, which has been sitting on banknotes...
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Move Over Graphene: The Wonder Conductor of the Future May be Stanene
When it comes to super materials, graphene seems to get all the attention. But a team of researchers has developed Stanene: a single layer of tin atoms that could just be the world’s first material to...
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These Intricate Collars That Look Like Fish Bones are Actually 3D-Printed
These complex collars look like like they’re made from freaky shark jaws or the skeleton of some crazy underwater menace, but they were actually directly produced from a 3D printer. MadLab designer...
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Would You Live in a House of Bricks Made from Pee and Bacteria?
To make a concrete bench, add sand, bacteria, calcium chloride, and some really concentrated pee? When we first saw Peter Trimble’s sand and urea bio-furniture we were excited to see human urine put to...
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The History of Invisibility and the Future of Camouflage
In 2004, the U.S. Army made a colossal mistake. It introduced a new digital camouflage called the Universal Camouflage Pattern (UCP), a single pattern designed to work across all environments. Only a...
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Why is Glass Transparent?
It’s easy to take for granted the fact that glass is transparent. But stop and think about it for a second: how can something so bulky and solid be so easy to see through? In fact, it might be better...
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