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A Self-Healing Pole Vault Pole Is One Great Leap for Sports Tech

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The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imagined

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An Invisible ‘Demon’ Lurks in an Odd Superconductor

Business

Google DeepMind's AI Dreamed Up 380,000 New Materials. The Next Challenge Is Making Them

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The Last 96 Hours of the Titan Tragedy

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This Artificial Muscle Moves Stuff on Its Own

Science

Everyone Was Wrong About Reverse Osmosis—Until Now

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This Is the Lightest Paint in the World

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The Quest for Injectable Brain Implants Has Begun

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This Lab-Grown Skin Could Revolutionize Transplants

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This Fake Skin Fools Mosquitoes—to Fight the Diseases They Spread

Ideas

New Materials Will Bring the Next Generation of Quantum Computers

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Electronic Second Skins Are the Wearables of the Future

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The High-Temperature Superconductivity Mystery Is Finally Solved

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The Sci-Fi Dream of a ‘Molecular Computer’ Is Getting More Real

Science

The Push to Scale Plant-Based Plastics

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The New Math of Wrinkling Patterns

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Recycled Battery Materials Can Work as Well as New Ones

Gear

This Company Says It’s One Step Closer to an Invisibility Cloak

Culture

The Biggest Threat to Humanity? Black Goo

Science

Can Reengineered Aluminum Help Fill the Demand for Copper?

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The Next Challenge for Solid-State Batteries? Making Lots of Them

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A Father-Son Team Solves a Geometry Problem With Infinite Folds

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These Nanobots Can Swim Around a Wound and Kill Bacteria

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