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Goodbye Soggy Straws? Transparent Biodegradable Paper Material Can Handle Even Hot Watera series of three images showing the mold for a cup and a straw, then the cup and a straw made of the transparent material, and then the two in use

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Goodbye Soggy Straws? Transparent Biodegradable Paper Material Can Handle Even Hot Watera series of three images showing the mold for a cup and a straw, then the cup and a straw made of the transparent material, and then the two in use
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Goodbye Soggy Straws? Transparent Biodegradable Paper Material Can Handle Even Hot Water

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What Are The Lightest Solids And Why Do They Matter?flower sitting on a transparent aerogel that is being held using tweezers over a blowtorch flame; the flower is undamaged by the flame because it is protected by the aerogel

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What Are The Lightest Solids And Why Do They Matter?flower sitting on a transparent aerogel that is being held using tweezers over a blowtorch flame; the flower is undamaged by the flame because it is protected by the aerogel
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What Are The Lightest Solids And Why Do They Matter?

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"Super Diamond": World's Hardest Material Synthesized In Chinese LaboratoryA big pile of diamonds.

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"Super Diamond": World's Hardest Material Synthesized In Chinese LaboratoryA big pile of diamonds.
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"Super Diamond": World's Hardest Material Synthesized In Chinese Laboratory

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Asteroids Can Strike Earth With Such Force They Form A Material Harder Than DiamondAn impact crater.

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Asteroids Can Strike Earth With Such Force They Form A Material Harder Than DiamondAn impact crater.
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Asteroids Can Strike Earth With Such Force They Form A Material Harder Than Diamond

clock-iconFebruary 14, 2025
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AI Develops "Ground-Breaking" New Magnet Free Of Rare Earth MetalsTwo neodymiuym magnets - thin cylindrical magnets - next to each other

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AI Develops "Ground-Breaking" New Magnet Free Of Rare Earth MetalsTwo neodymiuym magnets - thin cylindrical magnets - next to each other
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AI Develops "Ground-Breaking" New Magnet Free Of Rare Earth Metals

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Shape-Shifting Metamaterial Inspired By Octopuses Is A World FirstA futuristic digital image of a mesh made hexagons that curves and ripples like a cloth. The mesh is made of various illuminous shades of blue and it rests on a dark blue background.

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Shape-Shifting Metamaterial Inspired By Octopuses Is A World FirstA futuristic digital image of a mesh made hexagons that curves and ripples like a cloth. The mesh is made of various illuminous shades of blue and it rests on a dark blue background.
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Shape-Shifting Metamaterial Inspired By Octopuses Is A World First

clock-iconMarch 4, 2024
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How Do Crystals Grow? In A Two-Step Process Driven By Their KinksProfessor Peter Vekilov holding up a crystal after having explained the process by which crystals grow from solutions.

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How Do Crystals Grow? In A Two-Step Process Driven By Their KinksProfessor Peter Vekilov holding up a crystal after having explained the process by which crystals grow from solutions.
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How Do Crystals Grow? In A Two-Step Process Driven By Their Kinks

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Crystals Grown With Help From Electron Beam Solve 200-Year-Old Geological Mysterypanoramic view of sunset over the Dolomite mountains in South Tyrol, Italy

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Crystals Grown With Help From Electron Beam Solve 200-Year-Old Geological Mysterypanoramic view of sunset over the Dolomite mountains in South Tyrol, Italy
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Crystals Grown With Help From Electron Beam Solve 200-Year-Old Geological Mystery

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Rare Metal "Purple Bronze" Could Make The Perfect Quantum Switching Devicepurple cube floating above a ring with smoky background

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Rare Metal "Purple Bronze" Could Make The Perfect Quantum Switching Devicepurple cube floating above a ring with smoky background
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Rare Metal "Purple Bronze" Could Make The Perfect Quantum Switching Device

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Transgenic Silkworms Spin Silk That's 6 Times Tougher Than Bulletproof Kevlar In World FirstStrands of silk fibers made by the silkworms wrapped around black cylinders in a plastic box.

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Transgenic Silkworms Spin Silk That's 6 Times Tougher Than Bulletproof Kevlar In World FirstStrands of silk fibers made by the silkworms wrapped around black cylinders in a plastic box.
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Transgenic Silkworms Spin Silk That's 6 Times Tougher Than Bulletproof Kevlar In World First

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"Brainless" Soft Robots Wriggle Out Of A Maze With No Help From Humanswhite string-like soft robots on a black background

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"Brainless" Soft Robots Wriggle Out Of A Maze With No Help From Humanswhite string-like soft robots on a black background
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"Brainless" Soft Robots Wriggle Out Of A Maze With No Help From Humans

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"Demon" Quasiparticle Finally Observed After Decades Of PredictionsA waving lattice with a devil emojii peering through the wave

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"Demon" Quasiparticle Finally Observed After Decades Of PredictionsA waving lattice with a devil emojii peering through the wave
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"Demon" Quasiparticle Finally Observed After Decades Of Predictions

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A Self-Healing Metal Has Been Discovered For The First TimeWhen placed under strain at Sandia National Laboratories in the direction of the red arrows a fissure formed along the green that then healed over

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A Self-Healing Metal Has Been Discovered For The First TimeWhen placed under strain at Sandia National Laboratories in the direction of the red arrows a fissure formed along the green that then healed over
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A Self-Healing Metal Has Been Discovered For The First Time

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New Superconducting Material Could Transform Electronics – If It WorksThe material looks like a tiny coarse blue rock

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New Superconducting Material Could Transform Electronics – If It WorksThe material looks like a tiny coarse blue rock
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New Superconducting Material Could Transform Electronics – If It Works

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How To Tell Real Gold From Fool’s GoldThe mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold. This is a huge specimen from a mineral museum.

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How To Tell Real Gold From Fool’s GoldThe mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold. This is a huge specimen from a mineral museum.
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How To Tell Real Gold From Fool’s Gold

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