Materials
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Why take stuff with you into space when bacteria and other bugs can make everything…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Transistors are getting smaller, but there are limits, and increasingly it’s the Chinese who are…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF It’s very difficult to trace the origin of fibres and other materials, but now DNA…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Crazy designs sometimes have a way of becoming real, and while this concept combines various…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF 4D printing lets us create morphing products with special on demand properties which could be…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Rare Earths are in high demand, rare, and controlled by just a few countries so…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Growing cotton is environmentally intensive and has a large environmental footprint – algae doesn’t and…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you’re training AI can help you improve your technique, and now it can help…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Heavy industry accounts for 7% of all greenhouse gas emissions, and now the industry’s going…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Most of the products you use are made from alloys, and AI is now designing…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As technology gets smaller it’s going to help us transform everything around us in new…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As our ability to engineer materials at the nano level improves we can create new…
