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6 Aug 2014:
GrrlScientist: this book uses chemistry, history, psychology and good old fashioned storytelling to explore the nature of the materials that compose ordinary stuff, prompting readers to view the most common objects with newfound appreciation.
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21 Jul 2014: Bigger iPhone screen could be made more scratch resistant by blending glass with sapphire, according to patents and expert. By Samuel Gibbs
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11 Jul 2014:
Bigger iPhone screen could be made of third-hardest material known, after Apple consulted experts 18 months ago. By Samuel Gibbs
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7 Jul 2014: Who needs boring bricks? The house of the future will be made of trouser legs, VHS tapes and blowtorched carpet tiles. Oliver Wainwright visits the home in Brighton made almost entirely of rubbish
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15 Apr 2014:
Ian Sample: Materials such as graphene and shrilk are so new that the scientists who discovered them hardly know what to do with them – they only know they might yet transform our lives
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27 Mar 2014:
This month's nanotechnology roundup includes artificially enhanced plants, a way to tag valuable oils, and transistors made from nanotubes
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24 Mar 2014:
Letters: Graphene probably is the best thing since sliced bread, but it is hard to see how it can be commercially exploited in the absence of something to exploit
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4 Dec 2013: Letters: The new, state-of-the-art £61m National Graphene Institute at Manchester University has been specifically designed to encourage innovation
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3 Dec 2013:
Once a research-rich economy the UK has fallen behind in innovation with UK firms allegedly either incapable or unwilling to exploit inventions
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2 Dec 2013:
Materials scientist and BBC Science Club presenter Mark Miodownik attempts to show that electronics can be as enjoyable and creative to play with as paints and clay
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22 Nov 2013:
Scientific interest rolls in for a material that is more solid than steel and a better conductor than copper
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21 Nov 2013:
Researchers attempt to make more desirable condoms from graphene, world's thinnest and strongest material
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20 Nov 2013: Shareholders pile in to buy a slice of Applied Graphene Materials, which has found a way to mass produce graphene
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14 Oct 2013:
Eric Drexler: Atomically precise manufacturing (APM) could transform the material basis of human civilisation
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9 Oct 2013:
Three scientists win Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing computer simulations that have been used to design new drugs and materials
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