Materials
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…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The automation of lab work using robots has its benefits, and in this case researchers…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BREIF Room temperature superconductors would change almost every industry and they are the literal holy grail…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum computers calculate and solve problems billions of times faster than today’s fastest supercomputers, but…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the Earth heats up the need to recover more CO2 from the atmosphere increases,…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum computers will one day help us invent and design new things, from materials and…