Industrial Revolution
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Advances in new materials, production techniques and company processes mean we increasingly have a way…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When electronic systems are manufactured today they’re fixed forever, but in the future they’ll be…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We adapt to the weather by changing our clothes, but in the future our clothes…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Launching equipment and satellites into orbit is expensive, space limited, and slow, so NASA wants…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The ability to combine light and physical matter to create a new type of hybrid…
WHY TIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Many a motorist has been upended by potholes, as their cars clang into one, this…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As your understanding of material science improves we’re edging towards a future where materials take…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today plastics are made from harmful fossil fuels, but this new process eliminates them from…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We often think of materials as static things, but what if they were alive? …
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the future it will be taken for granted that materials can self-heal, and they’ll…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF This is one of the first combinations of 3D Printing and Self-Healing materials, and it’s…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The dye in your jeans, and most of your clothes, comes from countries whose dead…
