Materials
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…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF New materials are the key to unlocking many of tomorrow’s futuristic products and technologies and…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Aerogels are amazing materials – they’re ultra strong, ultra light, and ultra insulating making them…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the world weans itself off fossil fuels the new fuels we use need to…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Our command of biology is improving, and we’re now creating the world’s first programmable living…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We now have an easy way to detect bombs and nuclear weapons, in a convenient…