Scientists have engineered a material so light it can rest on a flower without bending its petals. Known as an aerogel-based structure, it is composed mostly of air while maintaining surprising ...

French luxury brand Coperni made several bold statements wth its space-themed collection during 2024 Paris Fashion Week, but one piece stood out with an offer to bring cosmic technology from the sky ...

Coperni's viral Air Swipe Bag debuted at Paris Fashion Week and is made up of 99% of air and 1% of glass Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

It looks like smoke trapped in glass. It weighs almost nothing. But it’s technically solid. Silica aerogel might be one of the strangest materials ever created.

This smokey white cloud with the vague shape of a bag was the Seinfeld of this year’s Paris Fashion Week: an accessory about nothing. And much like Seinfeld, it is as absurd as it is enjoyable to ...

Chinese material scientists have created the world's lightest material: A graphene aerogel that is seven times lighter than air, and 12% lighter than the previous record holder (aerographite). A cubic ...

Researchers at Linköping University have now developed a material whose absorption of terahertz signals can be turned on and off through a redox reaction. The material is an aerogel, which is one of ...