Industrial Revolution

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Stillsuits are suits that can, supposedly, infinitely recycle your body’s precious water to help you survive extreme environments.   Love…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By creating a laser out of pure glass future lasers can be much smaller, simplified, and be much more stable…

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

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Urban mining is the new term being given to the recycling of urban materials, which include everything from cars to…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF I’ve been tracking the rise of transparent electronics and TV’s for a long time now, and they’re inching closer to…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Display systems are everywhere, but this latest innovation oushes the limits of biology, technology, and imagination …   Love the…

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

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

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

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When it comes to making big things humanity’s great, but we’re getting better at creating things at the nanoscale too…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Industry 4.0 was about AI, automation, IOT, and was tech-centric, Industry 5.0 is human-centric and promotes more ethical and responsible…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF At 5 million fps you can record the movement of individual molecules, and change science – and other stuff.  …