Physics
Bigger bang theory: teach atoms new tricks to beef up explosives
Mastering materials that have never been made before could deliver blasts big enough to shoot rockets to Mars
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Environment
Plastics made fireproof thanks to mother-of-pearl mimic
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Earth
Throwaway culture: The truth about recycling
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Earth
Invisibility cloak makes solar panels work more efficiently
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Earth
Ocean plastics from Haiti鈥檚 beaches turned into laptop packaging
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Physics
Fortified gas marbles are 10 times stronger than regular bubbles
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Physics
Twisted semiconductors could help project moving holograms
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Technology
Special steel inspired by bone is more resistant to cracking
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Technology
Old toys will self-destruct thanks to vanishing plastic
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Technology
Material that shrinks in heat can weather extreme temperatures
Using 3D printing, two materials that naturally expand when they warm up have been configured into a composite that contracts instead as the thermometer rises
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Impossible alloys: How to make never-before-seen metals
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Plastic flower blooms thanks to its own internal molecular clock
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How future-proof are the ideas of Buckminster Fuller?
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Artificial spider silk mimics how it acts as liquid and solid
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