Magic Materials
The Infinite Monkey Cage
Zafod Beebelbrox
UCL professor Mark Miedovnik says his favourite material is silica aerogel. It's 99.8% air, and it's blue for the same reason the sky is blue. Anna Prudyski: I'm a material scientist and science communicator. And my favourite material is actually wool. We are still trying to design materials that are as good as nature has made them.
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