Making an atomic trampoline
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Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and vastly cheaper than mined diamonds. Beating nature took decades of hard graft and millions of pounds of pressure.
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When you make a mathematical knot using elastic material you get jumping loops, and challenging puzzles
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Turning styrofoam into cinnamon candy
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Helium discovery in northern Minnesota may be biggest ever in North America
28 votes -
LK-99 isn’t a superconductor — how science sleuths solved the mystery
43 votes -
New material allows for better hydrogen-based batteries and fuel cells
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Transparent wood is stronger than plastic and tougher than glass
28 votes -
Why scientists are making transparent wood
28 votes -
Researchers develop new mechanism to create water-repellent surfaces
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Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found
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Chromium is showing immense promise as a cheap, plentiful alternative to metals used in smartphone screens and solar cells
11 votes -
Butterfly-inspired films create vibrant colors while passively cooling objects
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The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?
43 votes -
Scientists at Purdue have created a white paint that, when applied, can reduce the surface temperature on a roof and cool the building beneath it
56 votes -
Scandium superconducts at the highest temperature for a pure element
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A massive seventy billion tonne underground deposit of high-grade phosphate rock has been discovered in Norway
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Superconductor chaos
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John Goodenough, part of Nobel trio in lithium battery hunt, dies at 100
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Nanoplastic ingestion causes neurological deficits
8 votes -
Multi-layer reactive foil: no fuel, no oxygen, tons of heat
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How NASA reinvented the wheel
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Wire EDM is an insanely precise manufacturing method. But there's a trick behind these objects that appear to have no seam.
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Prince Rupert's Drop exploding in molten glass
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Green steel: Can we make steel without CO2 emissions?
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Excessive outbreaks of seaweed are clogging up our waters – now the algae is being harvested alongside farmed crops to create ingredients for cosmetics and food products
5 votes -
‘Self-healing’ Roman concrete could aid modern construction, study suggests
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The story of solar-grade silicon
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The world depends on this government warehouse's collection of strange Standard Reference Materials. They're not cheap.
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These metals destroy themselves to prevent rust
7 votes -
Gallium: The liquid metal that could transform soft electronics
7 votes -
Controversy continues over whether hot water freezes faster than cold
7 votes -
Distillation and sealing of 139g of pure cesium into a glass vial
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Prince Rupert's Drop exploding in epoxy resin at 456,522 fps
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Cheap material could help convert waste heat into electricity
7 votes -
Three months in Monte Carlo
4 votes -
Cornell researchers see atoms at record resolution
9 votes -
Making transparent wood
11 votes -
First-ever atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time
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Physicists have observed an entirely new state of matter called 'Liquid Glass'
7 votes -
Why PVC cement spins like crazy in water
5 votes -
Meet Oklo, the Earth’s two-billion-year-old only known natural nuclear reactor
17 votes -
New Tesla "million mile" battery in development that relies on little to no cobalt, poised to reshape auto economics
7 votes -
Making aerogel
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Scientists isolate bacterial enzyme that rapidly breaks down plastic polymers into recyclable components
6 votes -
Making radioactive uranium glass
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Will any crap we put into graphene increase its electrocatalytic effect?
6 votes -
Making carbonated water by burning diamonds
10 votes -
ETH researchers used a 3D printing process to produce complex and highly porous glass objects
5 votes -
A new slippery coating could help reduce water usage
4 votes