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Microphone made of atom-thick graphene could be used in smartphones

Reducing the size of the microphone in electronic devices would allow manufacturers to include more of them, increasing the capability for noise cancellation

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Glassy gel is hard as plastic and stretches 7 times its length

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Cooling fabric blocks heat from pavement and buildings in hot cities

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2C5M1RA Bucharest, Romania - June 30, 2019: 35 degrees celsius (92 fahrenheit) is the temperature displayed by a digital thermometer on a hot summer on a stre
Arboretum, a wooden office estate on the western fringes of Paris,

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Forest office: The role of wood in Paris's low-carbon building boom

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How materials that rewind light can test physics' most extreme ideas

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How materials that rewind light can test physics' most extreme ideas

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2WG3YFC Titanium crater formed by a laser, SEM

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Some metals actually grow more resilient when hot

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Physicists are grappling with their own reproducibility crisis

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E8X75D Image concept of magnetic levitating above a high-temperature superconductor, cooled with liquid nitrogen.

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Why we are finally within reach of a room-temperature superconductor

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A sample of cement made from the mineral olivine, which can also help sequester carbon during production.

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Carbon-negative cement can be made with a mineral that helps catch CO2

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Hyperelastic gel is one of the stretchiest materials known to science

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Hyperelastic gel is one of the stretchiest materials known to science

A super-stretchy hydrogel can stretch to 15 times its original length and return to its initial shape, and could be used to make soft inflatable robots

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Old milk can be used to extract gold and other metals from e-waste

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Layer of graphene could help protect statues and paintings from damage

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Toxic mud from aluminium production can be used to make greener steel

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Fire Ants Floating in Flood Water

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Fire ants form rafts that have weird properties when stretched

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