Boron nitride, tougher than it looks
During World War I, a British aeronautical engineer named A.A. Griffith noticed something odd about glass. He found that the atomic bonds in glass needed 10,000 megapascals of stress to break apart –…
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The 'could've, should've, would've' of R&D
ISRO's Moon rover, which will move around the lunar surface come September (if all goes well), will live and and die in a span of 14 days because that's how long the lithium-ion cells it's…
Graphene the Ubiquitous
Every once in a while, a (revolutionary-in-hindsight) scientific discovery is made that's at first treated as an anomaly, and then verified. Once established as a credible find, it goes through a…