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Video: Aerographite, Tthe Lightest Material Ever Created -- Popular Science We've been impressed in the past by aerogel, a lattice-like ...

Image : A computer-rendered view inside a carbon nanotube. (Credit: ghutchis/Flickr) From CNET: Humankind has seen the Stone Age, the Golden...

Professor Emily Carter and graduate student Chen Huang developed a new way of predicting important properties of substances. The advance cou...

From Technology Review: Scientists build new materials using inspiration from complex biological forms. Joanna Aizenberg, a materials scient...

What makes graphite like this? (Image: Walden) From New Scientist: CRYSTALS are objects of true and profound mystery. That's not because...

Diamonds are famously the hardest natural substance, but they may be about to lose their crown (Image: Salexmccoy, Wikimedia Commons) From N...

Healing bubbles: Tiny fluid-filled capsules a few hundred nanometers wide are dispersed throughout a thin electroplated metal layer. The ca...

Experimental set-up at the FLASH laser used to discover the new state of matter. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Oxford) From Scien...

Image: Scientists at Rice University and North Carolina State University have found a method of attaching molecules to semiconducting silic...

Thermal Ground Plane Conductive Material Georgia Tech From Popsci.com: Georgia Tech researchers are working on a new novel material for co...

Graphene has been described as a carbon nanotube unrolled. Its two-dimensional sheet is made up of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged i...

Designer clusters of atoms that can mimic other elements have for the first time been devised with magnetic properties (Image: Ulises Revele...

VCs8 and MnAu24(SH)18 magnetic superatoms that mimic a manganese atom. The MnAu24 cluster is surrounded by sulfur and hydrogen atoms to prot...

Surface electron band structure of bismuth telluride. (Credit: Image courtesy of Yulin Chen and Z. X. Shen) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily...

CDs. The inexpensive plastic now used to manufacture CDs and DVDs may one day soon be put to use in improving the integrity of electronics i...

The outer crusts of so-called neutron stars (above, a neutron star in an artist's conception) are ten billion times stronger than steel—...

The outer crusts of so-called neutron stars (above, a neutron star in an artist's conception) are ten billion times stronger than steel—...

Photo: Two versions of the aerogel -- the RF-only version (left) and the mixed version (right). (Credit: Image courtesy of Missouri Univers...

From Wired News: For the next installment of the Terminator franchise, Hollywood might skip the polymimetic liquid alloys — they're so 2...