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Shrinking material

Technology

Material that shrinks in heat can weather extreme temperatures

Using 3D printing, two materials that naturally expand when they warm up have been configured into a composite that contracts instead as the thermometer rises

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man and forge

Technology

Impossible alloys: How to make never-before-seen metals

Features

Plastic flower blooms thanks to its own internal molecular clock

Technology

Plastic flower blooms thanks to its own internal molecular clock

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Buckminster Fuller

Technology

How future-proof are the ideas of Buckminster Fuller?

Culture

A transparent ball of glue, close up, with a white strand of spider silk going into it, twirling around and comnig out the other end. Looks cool and abstract

Technology

Artificial spider silk mimics how it acts as liquid and solid

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Fungal material made into letters spelling out

Technology

Fungal products won't win prizes for glamour but will be greener

Culture

An artist's impression showing a small robot with four legs and gecko-like feet crawling over the outside of a spacecraft, with the surface of Earth visible over the top of the page

Space

Gecko Gripper blasts off to help design space-crawling robots

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New Scientist Inside A Fusion Reactor

Technology

New alloys could lead to next generation of nuke plant metals

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Designs from Islamic art

Technology

Material that can grow when stretched is inspired by Islamic art

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Shape-shifting matter could let houses crumple themselves away

Technology

Shape-shifting matter could let houses crumple themselves away

Polymer cubes that snap together like Lego and reconfigure into different structures at the flick of a switch could lead to foldable houses

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Technology

Skyscrapers of the future will be held together with glue

Opinion

Physics

Nano coating lets you mould and slice liquid just like Play-Doh

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Physics

Physicists dream up crystal based on elegant satellite dance

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Technology

Solar cell you wear like a bandage can power a watch

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