Sculpture Showcases Smart Metals that React to Hot & Cold
A heat-reactive metal sculpture at the Materials & Applications gallery in Los Angeles opens and closes according to environmental conditions, 'breathing' like human skin. 'Bloom' was ...
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Amazing Aerogel: Strong as Steel, Light as Air
One of the world's most amazing materials wasn't created by nature - it was invented by a couple of scientists who made a silly bet. In 1931, Samuel Stephens Kistler and Charles Learned wanted to ...
Material World: 8 Substances That Will Shape the Future
Advancements in science and technology have opened up a whole new world of possibilities in material science. Our future world won't be made up of the same materials we are used to seeing today - ...
Hot & Cold: Color-Changing Tile Creates Transforming Spaces
The tiles that line your bathroom might be nice to look at, but what do they actually do? The color-changing tiles from Moving Color take a regular bathroom and make it into an ever-changing work ...
Fine Faux Finishes: Awesome Plywood & MDF Architecture
Plywood and other manufactured wood building materials are like the undergarments of architecture – foundational elements that are then covered with a more stylish, finished layer. But their ...
10 Fantastic Futuristic Materials that Actually Exist Today
Sometimes technology leaps so far ahead it seems like the future has arrived a few years early. When the improvement comes in the area of materials the leap can seem even greater, as the new ...
