杏吧原创

Fungal material made into letters spelling out "Spawn the future"

Technology

Fungal products won’t win prizes for glamour but will be greener

Food, clothes and building materials made from mycelial threads impress Sjef van Gaalen at the Fungal Futures exhibition in Utrecht, the Netherlands

An artist's impression showing a small robot with four legs and gecko-like feet crawling over the outside of a spacecraft, with the surface of Earth visible over the top of the page

Space

Gecko Gripper blasts off to help design space-crawling robots

杏吧原创 Inside A Fusion Reactor

Technology

New alloys could lead to next generation of nuke plant metals

Designs from Islamic art

Physics

Material that can grow when stretched is inspired by Islamic art

Technology

Shape-shifting matter could let houses crumple themselves away

Looking up at a skyscraper under construction

Technology

Skyscrapers of the future will be held together with glue

hydrophobic water droplet

Physics

Nano coating lets you mould and slice liquid just like Play-Doh

Physics

Physicists dream up crystal based on elegant satellite dance

Technology

Solar cell you wear like a bandage can power a watch

Physics

Raft made of dust carries water droplets across a sea of oil

An unlikely vessel could shuttle drops of water around microfluidic devices, giving fine control over chemical reactions

Health

Microscopic cage for light traps photons but lets fluids through

Health

3D printed teeth to keep your mouth free of bacteria

Physics

Wonder stuff: Making every material you’ve never heard of

Earth

Modern-day alchemy is putting the periodic table under pressure