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Lightweight Ceramic Coatings Based on Abalone Shells Could Form Tough Armor...
Technology Buildings or commercial jetliners could soon get a protective coating of shatter-resistant armor similar to the material lining abalone shells. Finnish researchers have… Buildings or...
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New Use for Cigarette Butts Makes Them Suddenly Worth the Cost of Recycling
Science A message from Chinese scientists: "Stop throwing out your cigarette butts!" Researchers have devised a financially viable process for recycling cigarette leftovers to… A message from Chinese...
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New Graphene Material is Paper-Thin and Ten Times Stronger Than Steel
Science Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney have created a new material that is lighter, less dense, harder, and stronger than steel. But this material isn’t one of… Researchers at the...
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Microscopically Structuring Steel Like Bamboo Makes It Stronger Yet More...
Technology Making a steel tool? You want both qualities. People's teeth and bamboo stalks may not seem very durable compared to bars of steel. But, a new series of experiments finds, making metals...
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Robots Can Now 3D-Print Steel Bridges
Science Coming soon to a park near you ... if you live in Amsterdam You know that saying "we'll cross that bridge when we come to it"? There's a group in Amsterdam that has decided that's not good...
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How To Drill Through Steel [Video]
DIY Spot annealing lets you soften metal at just one point A time comes in every maker's life when he just has to drill through steel. Sure, you could use heat to soften it up first, but that would...
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This Super Glass Material Is Almost As Strong As Steel
Science A cracked cell phone screen could become a thing of the past A team of Japanese researchers has found a way to add a version of aluminum to the glass using a new production method, according...
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Behind the Scenes at SpaceX's Hyperloop Pod Competition
Technology Highlights include Lockheed Martin, Halbach wheels, and magnetic levitation What happened this past weekend in College Station could change the future of transportation. What happened this...
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Meet A Real Man Of Steel
DIY James Hobson builds exoskeletons that give him superhuman strength James Hobson wants to build strength-enhancing exoskeletons.
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A brief history of barbed wire
Technology Looking back on the invention's complicated past. The “wild West” was quickly tamed. In its stead, settlers left a patchwork of privately-owned lands, each wrapped in a barbed wire bow.
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