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This Trash Art Residency Makes Waste Wonderous
The art made at the Recycled Artist In Residency (RAIR) is garbage... literally.
Pacifico Silano Uses Forgotten Gay Porn to Create New Queer History
The photographer's latest exhibition, 'Tear Sheets', fuses cultural detritus with contemporary art tropes to figuratively mold the past.
Pacifico Silano Uses Forgotten Gay Porn to Create New Queer History
The photographer's latest exhibition, Tear Sheets, fuses cultural detritus with contemporary art tropes to figuratively mold the past.
Space Origami Could Pack Big Structures into Tiny Satellites
Oxford Space Systems is developing materials for deployable structures that can fold without damage or creasing.
This Mollusk's Exoskeleton Is Covered in Hundreds of Tiny Eyes
Let's build armor that can monitor its own integrity, just like the chiton can.
A Japanese Company May Have Figured Out How to Mass Produce Spider Silk
Bioengineered spider silk could be the textile of the future.
Your Body Is Made of Hydrogel, and Soon Robots Could Be Too
Researchers made hydrogels that are 90 percent water but extremely adhesive.
A New Supermaterial Lets This Artificial Heart Pump Like the Real Thing
Researchers want it to be used as a prosthetic heart in the future.
Boeing Says It's Made the Lightest Metal Material in the World
Boeing has created a structure that is 99.99 percent air.
Is This the Strongest Origami in the World?
Researchers say their “zipper tube” is simultaneously flexible yet rigid.