Mars is a cold, inhospitable planet. Temperatures routinely drop to as low as -81 °F and down to -200 °F in some spots during winter. Meanwhile, the ultraviolet radiation could make humans seriously ...

It has insulated components on rovers sent to Mars, extracted toxic contaminants from water, some even speculate that the US military has put it inside nuclear warheads. But it could be just the thing ...

An aerogel material that is more than 99% transparent to light and is an excellent thermal insulator has been developed by Ivan Smalyukh and colleagues at the University of Colorado Boulder in the US.

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Aerogel is one of the strangest materials ever created. Ultra-light, ghost-like, and incredibly strong, it challenges everything we think we know about solids. This video breaks down what aerogel is, ...

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Aerogel is an excellent thermal insulator. So far, however, it has mainly been used on a large scale, for example in environmental technology, in physical experiments or in industrial catalysis.