Fishing Rods From Carrot Sticks and Canvas Made of Concrete?! Seven Amazing Materials

Behind every classic of design lies some innovation in materials or fabrication. So what materials will tomorrow's brilliant new products be made from? Material Connexion, a materials library for designers, has just unveiled its inaugural MEDIUM awards, for the best materials of the year. Here's an exclusive sneak peek of a few of those mind-bending innovations.READ»

Surface Tensions: 5 Everyday Materials Used in Unexpected Ways

Five designers exploring how materials can be stretched, pulled, crumpled, and frozen.READ»

Self-Healing Metal Puts a Bit of Man in the Machine

New nanotech advances point to a future with intelligent metals that repair themselves. Think the Terminator from T2, but less evil and more useful.READ»

How Xerox Tapped the Power of Reuse

Listening to the cacophony of calls for green business, green jobs, and green economies, you'd think that everyone now is for a green future. But unless your company is manufacturing solar panels or making socks from bamboo, ...READ»

• Nature's 10 Simple Rules for Survival

An Audit of Earth's Material Resources

New Scientist provides us with this handy graph to show how long the materials we need for our transition to a low-carbon economy will last. I promise it will erase every fleeting thought you ever had about the pointlessness of ...READ»

The Green Team

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Bio and Interests: Julie Muyco

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Bio and Interests: Christopher Isabella

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