Materials
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if rather than protecting the data from hackers we created new unhackable data storage materials instead? Love the…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Imagine needing bone or tissue repaired inside your body, or needing a new organ, and hospital staff being able to…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today hospitals rely on blood donations to save patients, but what if you could create any blood or plasma you…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly we’ll be able to spray all sorts of things onto surfaces, from sensors and compute, so solar panels which…
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 Fast fashion, and fashion in general, is responsible for huge amounts of landfill and waste, so they recycling industry is…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Paralysis used to be for life, but it isn’t any longer, and this and other breakthroughs are just the start…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is getting to the point where it’s consuming more energy than small countries, and so researchers are trying to…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Not everything man made is better than what nature can create, although increasingly using synthetic biology we’re re-creating nature. …
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The automation of lab work using robots has its benefits, and in this case researchers have found the hardest material…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BREIF Room temperature superconductors would change almost every industry and they are the literal holy grail of materials. Love the…
