Simple Trick Turns Commercial Polymer Into World's Toughest Fiber
A materials scientist has created the world's toughest fiber using a mechanism based on a slip knot.
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Energy Department Backs New Way to Make Diesel from Corn
A novel chemical pathway could address the high cost of transporting cellulosic materials to make diesel fuel.
Social Media Censorship Offers Clues to China’s Plans
What gets removed from China’s social networks shows how censorship strategies are advancing, and can even hint at the government's plans.
Other Interesting arXiv Papers This Week
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv preprint server
A QWERTY Keyboard for Your Wrist
Zoomboard—a miniscule keyboard that zooms when you tap it—could make it easier to type on smart watches.
How to Make Gas-Guzzling Vans into Efficient Hybrids
A Boston-based company shows how it converts delivery trucks and other commercial fleet vehicles into hybrids.
Internet Everywhere--But on Your Terms
I hate feeling tethered to the internet. So why do I love FreedomPop?
The Incompleteness of the Harm Principle
A response to Jason Pontin’s essay on free speech by the author of Principles for a Free Society.
A New Computer Screen Reaches Out to Touch You
An experimental new touch screen, the Obake, has a stretchable surface that to reacts user interaction in new ways.
Yahoo's Weather App Has No "Cool" Interactions--and That's Amazing
It's pretty, yes. But more importantly, it doesn't force you to interact with it.
