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FYI: Is It Legal To 3-D Print A Handgun?
Bike Tires That Can Survive The Himalayas
A New Rooftop Coating Makes Buildings ‘Sweat’ To Cut Cooling Costs
3-D Printing Company Confiscates Wiki Weapon Project’s Printer
Your Clothes Could Soon Scrub Pollution Directly From The Air
Spongy Implants Can Replace Cancerous Vertebrae
Carbon Nanotubes Generate The Smallest 3-D Hologram Pixels Ever
This Plastic Can Repair Itself
What If Oscars Were Made Of Solid Gold?
Insanely Rubbery Battery Stretches To 4 Times Its Length
Nanoparticle-Coated Textiles Clean Themselves With Sunlight
New Smart Material Will Form Instant Casts For Accident Victims
Video: A Ball of Metal Bounces Off a Thin Sheet of Super-Tough Hydrogel
Insect Wings: Nature’s Most Violent Antimicrobial? [Video]
Cell phone batteries are destined to die, and we have physics to blame
DNA Makes A Great Flame Retardant For Cotton Fabric
How to make convincing fake-gold bars
The Future of Electronics is Just One Single Molecule Thick
This textile’s twitching tendrils hint at a future of programmable materials
Chemical Inchworms: The Latest in Robotic Technology?
Researchers Reach the ‘Highest Possible’ Resolution for Color Laser Printing at 100,000 dpi
Superheated Water Etches Diamond
The Nano Lightbulb
Video: A Japanese Company Will Scan and Print You a Statue of Your Gestating Fetus
MIT’s New 3D Printer Can Print 10 Materials Simultaneously
A Surfboard Made By A Rocket Scientist
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Infographic: A Timeline Of The Present And Future Of Electric Flight
Scientists Unveil the World’s Largest Sheet of Carbon Nanotubes
Panasonic’s Artificial Photosynthesis Turns Water, Sunlight, and CO2 into Useful Chemicals
5-Minute Projects: DIY slime
Video: Aerographite, the Lightest Material Ever Created
Sculpting in solid mercury, with some help from liquid nitrogen
DARPA’s “Programmable Matter” Project Creating Shape-Shifting Materials
New ‘Strain Paint’ Glows Fluorescent When the Underlying Structure is Stressed
Magnetochromatic Material Changes Color on Command
Move Over, Silicon; Here Come Quantum Bismuth Chips
“The Kitchen As Laboratory”: Measuring the Texture of Egg Yolks
Gray Matter: Titanium or plain ol’ steel?
New ‘Mechanical Metamaterial’ Expands When You Compress It, Shrinks When You Stretch It
Video: Amazing Coating For Bottles’ Interiors Lets Ketchup Flow Like Water
Glove Changes Color When It Detects Toxins
Why Does Coke From a Glass Bottle Taste Different?
‘Nanofishnet’ Could Be the First Metamaterial to Impossibly Bend Light in the Visible Spectrum
Self-Healing Material Could Instantly Fix Airplane Wings Mid-Flight
Video: MIT Engineers Design Fog-Free, Water-Repellent, Anti-Glare Glass
Carve steel with salt water, electricity, and a tin earring
This Squishy Honeycomb Could Build Strong, Lightweight Armor
Nanoparticle Coating Makes Paper Magnetic, Waterproof, and Antibacterial
Can you guess the tiny objects in these zoomed-in photos?
The best way to keep vinyl records alive? Make them yourself.
Is This the Perfect Temperature-Regulating Coffee Mug?
Custom-Made Metamaterials Could Show Scientists a Tabletop Big Bang
Not even geckos can stick to Teflon (and other slippery facts)
Self-Chilling Roof Material Could Cool Your House For Free
“Designer Electrons” Can Be Custom-Made for Future Devices
ISS’s New Reactor Uses Sound Waves to To Form Materials Attainable Only In Space
How to wash your clothes without wearing them out
A Racquet Made With The World’s Strongest Material
Video: Super High-Res 3-D Laser Printer Prints at Five Meters Per Second
Google’s Project Jacquard Will Turn Our Clothing Into Computers
Google and Levi’s Are Weaving Computers Into Your Clothes
Nike’s Flyknit 360 sneakers fit like 3D-printed socks
Smart, Self-Healing Hydrogels Repair Themselves After Sustaining Damage
Glowing Paper Could Pave The Way For Bendy Devices
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