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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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Hyperelastic gel is one of the stretchiest materials known to science

Chemistry

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

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Chemistry

Layer of graphene could help protect statues and paintings from damage

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Technology

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

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Fire Ants Floating in Flood Water

Life

Fire ants form rafts that have weird properties when stretched

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Technology

AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium

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Falling diamonds on black background

Space

It might rain diamonds on more than 1900 exoplanets across the galaxy

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Chemistry

Notoriously complex material called 'plumber's nightmare' created

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This carbon nitride is nearly as hard as diamond

Chemistry

Material made of carbon and nitrogen is nearly as hard as diamond

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Health

Stretchy electrodes shrink when wet to fit snugly around organs

A material inspired by spider silk contracts to less than half of its length when exposed to water, and could be used for soft medical devices that adjust their shape around tissues and organs inside the body

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Apartment air conditioners in a building in Singapore

Technology

Cooling system could replace air con and drastically cut energy use

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Attempts to recreate red matter

Physics

Superconductor hopes dashed after journal retracts ‘red matter’ study

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Technology

Hollow nanoparticles linked by DNA make unusually strong materials

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Plastic scrap in landfill

Technology

Waste plastic can be recycled into hydrogen fuel and graphene

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