Materials

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Paints whose colours never fade is one thing, but paint that’s lighter has all kind…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Compounds are the basis for all materials on Earth, and the invention of a new…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if rather than protecting the data from hackers we created new unhackable data storage…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Imagine needing bone or tissue repaired inside your body, or needing a new organ, and…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today hospitals rely on blood donations to save patients, but what if you could create…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly we’ll be able to spray all sorts of things onto surfaces, from sensors and…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Magnetorestrictive materials might not be commonplace, but now they’re helping China’s latest generation of stealth…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Everything is made of compounds and materials, and by discovering and inventing almost 400,000 new…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Fast fashion, and fashion in general, is responsible for huge amounts of landfill and waste,…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Paralysis used to be for life, but it isn’t any longer, and this and other…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is getting to the point where it’s consuming more energy than small countries, and…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Not everything man made is better than what nature can create, although increasingly using synthetic…