Steel's a done deal, right? A material we know all about, just as we move on to cooler composites? Nope. Someone's just invented new steel that's 7% stronger in a process taking just 10 seconds.READ»
At last, the age-old dream of indestructible robot assassins may be upon us. New science yields materials that detect damage and repair themselves.READ»
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»
"An atomically-thick layer of bonded carbon atoms in a hexagonal array, that can be made by peeling a layer off a graphite block with sticky-tape" doesn't sound like a particularly wondrous material. But that's an approximate ...READ»
Gordon Moore's 1965 observation of increasing integrated circuit power paralleling shrinkage in size was originally tentatively phrased: "The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two ...READ»
