Going with the Lateral Flow

Chilling for Recovery

Making Children Healthier with Design

We humans have an uneasy relationship with perfection. We strive for it — but we’re not always sure we want it. If something is close to perfect, it seems suspiciously smooth or, as commentators invariably say when an athlete or performer is at doing the best possible work, “he/she makes it look easy.” Of […]

Okay, so in the last week we have had two news stories dealing with new materials that are incomprehensibly thin.
First, there is the breakthrough (also covered on NPR) about a new fabric that is by far the blackest material on earth, absorbing almost all light. This material is composed of nanotubes that are, […]