This week’s scientific discovery that grabbed my attention has to do with cities, and how exactly their heat directly affects the local–and distant–environments surrounding them. A mea culpa before you go ahead and listen: I totally forgot to mention who the researchers were in this podcast! To be totally clear, the paper that this research […]

This week I take a step away from materials science and talk about the world of biofuel and the wind in the willows.

A bonus episode examining the fascinating world of non-stick surfaces, and new research that could lead to fabrics that are able to withstand the assault of hundreds of different types of liquids.

This time we're looking at carbon nanotubes and some pretty sweet methods that are allowing them to assume their full potential.

In this inaugural podcast, I'm talking some new research which is enabling ultrastable glass, that usually takes millennia to form, to be grown in a matter of hours!