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Famine-Ending Food Source: Soylent Green is Made of Plants
The global demand for food will not let up anytime soon, with the planet’s population predicted to hit nine billion by the year 2050. Resources are already strained, so the logical thing to do is to...
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Nanotube Aerogels Could Suck Oil Spills Right Out of Oceans
Oil spills suck, right? Well, what if there was something that did the sucking for them? That’s what a team of scientists at the University of Pennsylvania presupposed when they created a new form of...
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Paper Beats Rock: Wood Waste Matter Tougher than Kevlar
It’s ironic that some of the most banal materials can also be some of the most resilient. Forest by-products like sawdust and woodchips have the potential to be more fortifyingly superior to Kevlar....
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Getting Sappy: Evergreen Resins Make Eco-Friendly Plastics
The harmful environmental effects of plastics are well-documented by now, but the material is so integrated into the way we live our lives that it would be difficult if not impossible to simply stop...
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Water-Repellant Material Wicks Sweat Away Like Human Skin
There isn’t a material much more effective for channeling and releasing extra moisture than human skin, but a team of researchers at the University of California, Davis are developing a material...
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This Little Chip Could Turn Seawater Into Drinkable Water
English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner includes the famous line: “water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink.” It’s a sort of cautionary statement about the ills...
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Humans Synthesize Millions of Years of Spider Ingenuity
Spider silk is one of the most incredible materials on Earth, and as such scientists have been trying to synthesize and mass produce it for years. A Japanese start-up called Spiber claims to have done...
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Get Ready for a Waterproof World With Insane New Spray
Ever feel like making a t-shirt waterproof? Thanks to Rust-Oleum, now you can. They’ve developed NeverWet, a spray that makes almost anything completely waterproof, with the help of Ross...
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Gorilla Glass Gets Even Better With Futuristic Additions
Gorilla Glass has invaded just about every smartphone on the market, but it’s about to get even more awesome. MIT’s Mobile Technology Summit included information on what is coming next for the world’s...
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New Material Makes Holographic Displays Less Expensive
We’ve all seen it before in movies: some technologically advanced person (usually a scientist or co-pilot) pulls a floating screen of data out of nowhere and starts crunching away. Typically reserved...
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Green Bricks + Land: New Factory Could Close Carbon Loop
[ Filed under Science & in the New Materials category ] As greenhouse gas emissions increase, there have been a number of ideas about what to do with carbon dioxide. Unfortunately, none have...
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Carbyne: The Tough Polyyne Family Has New World Champ
[ Filed under Science & in the New Materials category ] First it was diamond, then graphene. These two structures have previously held the title of the world’s strongest material. Now, one of...
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Never-Before-Seen Matter State Makes Lightsabers Possible
[ Filed under Science & in the New Materials category ] Star Wars fans, get ready to see one of your fondest dreams come true. Scientists have finally figured out how to make lightsabers a...
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Amazing Self-Healing Plastic Regenerates Like Terminator
[ Filed under Science & in the New Materials category ] The CIDETEC Centre for Electrochemical Technologies in Spain has done the previously impossible: they have created the world’s first...
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New Bio-Plastic is Good for the Environment + Employment
[ Filed under Science & in the New Materials category ] When plastic was invented, it was thought of as a miracle material and manufacturers starting using it as a cheap alternative to wood, metal...
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Butterfingers Rejoice! Mollusk Shell Study = Stronger Glass
[ Filed under Science & in the New Materials category ] When you’re putting dishes away and a drinking glass slips out of your hand, there’s always a second of utter dread before it hits the floor...
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Gecko-Inspired Self-Cleaning Adhesive = Always-Sticky Tape
[ Filed under Science & in the New Materials category ] On the scale of sticky stuff, gecko feet are right near the top of the list. They can cling to just about any surface and never lose their...
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Smoke + Foam Act as Theft Deterrents in New Material
[ Filed under Science & in the New Materials category ] Bad news for anyone who enjoys knocking off ATMs and vending machines: a team at ETH Zurich have developed a self-defense system that would...
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Incredible New Nanomaterial is Great at Multi-Tasking
[ Filed under Science & in the New Materials category ] If you thought graphene was going to be the next do-everything material, we’ve got news for you: Multi-Use Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) has just...
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Super-Strong New Material Has Lower Density Than Water
[ Filed under Science & in the New Materials category ] What do bones, wood, and honeycombs have in common? They are all examples of nature’s strong, lightweight building materials. They were also...
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