STRONG MATERIALS
Bulletproof vests could soon be woven out of nanotubes. Drawing the carbon tubes into threads about 30 centimetres long and then heat-treating them produces suitable super-strong threads, Chinese researchers report in Nature (vol 419, p 801).
CELLPHONES
No sooner have picture phones arrived than they are being banned. Swimming pools, sports centres and hotels in Singapore, including the world-famous Raffles Hotel, are set to ban the snappy mobile phones to protect their customers’ privacy.
FUTURE FUELS
A company in Blakeley, Georgia, is developing a way to extract hydrogen from peanut shells. A pilot plant run by Scientific…
