A five-year, $20 million National Science Foundation grant will allow chemists from Cornell and other institutions to study new ways to make plastics more sustainable.
Saving the world, one material at a time
Comic-tanium is a traveling, non-profit educational exhibit that makes a connection between the real world of materials science and the fictional worlds of well-known comic book heroes, like Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man, Batman, and others.
A clear way to harvest solar power
A new type of “transparent” solar concentrator can be used on windows or mobile devices to harvest solar energy without obscuring the view.
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SR – 71 Titanium Blackbird: How to Fly the World’s Fastest Plane
The Lockheed SR-71 was a product of Lockheed’s Skunk Works, and was designed and built after the loss of a U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union in 1960. The titanium Blackbird would fly even higher, and at speeds of Mach 3.3 it would be fast enough to outrun any missile.