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3-D Printing Company Confiscates Wiki Weapon Project’s Printer
Your Clothes Could Soon Scrub Pollution Directly From The Air
Carbon Nanotubes Generate The Smallest 3-D Hologram Pixels Ever
Video: A Ball of Metal Bounces Off a Thin Sheet of Super-Tough Hydrogel
The Future of Electronics is Just One Single Molecule Thick
Researchers Reach the ‘Highest Possible’ Resolution for Color Laser Printing at 100,000 dpi
Video: A Japanese Company Will Scan and Print You a Statue of Your Gestating Fetus
Panasonic’s Artificial Photosynthesis Turns Water, Sunlight, and CO2 into Useful Chemicals
Video: Aerographite, the Lightest Material Ever Created
New ‘Strain Paint’ Glows Fluorescent When the Underlying Structure is Stressed
“The Kitchen As Laboratory”: Measuring the Texture of Egg Yolks
New ‘Mechanical Metamaterial’ Expands When You Compress It, Shrinks When You Stretch It
Video: Amazing Coating For Bottles’ Interiors Lets Ketchup Flow Like Water
‘Nanofishnet’ Could Be the First Metamaterial to Impossibly Bend Light in the Visible Spectrum
Video: MIT Engineers Design Fog-Free, Water-Repellent, Anti-Glare Glass
Nanoparticle Coating Makes Paper Magnetic, Waterproof, and Antibacterial
“Designer Electrons” Can Be Custom-Made for Future Devices
Video: Super High-Res 3-D Laser Printer Prints at Five Meters Per Second
Smart, Self-Healing Hydrogels Repair Themselves After Sustaining Damage
Creator of Breathable Caffeine Wants You to Drink Your Drink, Then Eat the Bottle
Say ‘I Love You Very Little’ With the World’s Smallest Valentine
This Cuddly Phase-Change Robot Will Keep You Warm at Night
Video: Skin Augmented With Spider-Silk Stops a Speeding Bullet
Metamaterials Can Exert a Whole New Kind of Force
New Material Can Scrub Carbon Dioxide Right Out of the Air at Unprecedented Rates
What We Know So Far About the Successor to the B-2 Stealth Bomber
Your Next Suture Could Be Made of Shrilk, a Superstrong Synthetic Insectoid Material
Modified Cotton Cleans Itself When Exposed to Sunlight
Carbon Nanotube Stealth Paint Could Make Any Object Ultra-Black
Invented: World’s Lightest Material, 99.99 Percent Air
Researchers Turn Hydrogen Gas Into Metal
Video: One of the Most Slippery Materials Ever
New Super-Black Material Absorbs 99 Percent of All Light That Dares to Strike It
Brilliant 10: The Chemical Catcher
Chemist Once Accused of ‘Quasi-Science’ Wins Nobel For Quasicrystal Discovery
Heart Patch Made of Gold Helps Cardiac Tissue Rebuild Itself
New Theory on World Trade Center Collapse Blames Explosive Chemical Reaction
IBM and 3M Team Up to Make a Semiconductor Adhesive That Will Enable Next-Gen Chips
A Single Box of Girl Scout Cookies Could Yield $15 Billion Worth of Graphene
Photovoltaic Breakthrough Lets Engineered Materials Emit More Blackbody Radiation Than Physics Says They Should
Acoustic Diode Only Lets Sound Travel in One Direction (Read: True Soundproofing)
Philips’ Luminous Wallpaper Will Create the Mood Lighting of the Future
German Lab Generates the Strongest Magnetic Field Ever Created
Obama Announces $500 Million Investment in Robots and Other Advanced Manufacturing Tech
Super-Dense Forms of Carbon Could Out-Sparkle the Shiniest Diamond
New Nanometal Changes from Hard to Soft at the Flip of a Switch
How Scientists Ship Snowmen to Bahrain, Chill Beer and Keep Vaccines Cool
‘Concrete Canvas’ Makes Erecting Permanent Buildings As Easy as Pitching a Tent
New Graphene Material is Paper-Thin and Ten Times Stronger Than Steel
Video: Self-Healing Polymer Fixes Itself Under Ultraviolet Light
For Safety and Control, the Metal Bat Gets Reinvented
Researchers Create Moldable Metals That Are Stronger Than Steel
Using Special Crystals, Researchers Make a Paper Clip Invisible
New Self-Healing Materials Detect When They’re Damaged and Fix Themselves
New Nanospheres are the Stiffest Biological Materials Ever Created, Surpassing Kevlar
How Modified Worms and Goats Can Mass-Produce Nature’s Toughest Fiber
Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded For Graphene, the Material of the Future
Electrified Cotton Filter Soaked in Nanotech Cheaply and Quickly Purifies Large Volumes of Water
Has Apple Gained Access to the World’s Most Advanced Manufacturing Tech?
By Manipulating Condensation Conditions, Researchers Create Room-Temperature Ice
Antibacterial Graphene ‘Paper’ Could Lead to Better Bandages
A New Engineered Stealth Metamaterial is the Blackest Ever
New Metamaterial First to Bend Light in the Visible Spectrum
Physicist Creates Most Magnetic Material on Earth, Might Overturn Laws of Physics