Boeing and HRL Laboratories created a metal microlattice that has been awarded the Guinness World Record for the world’s lightest metal. The entire structure of the microlattice is 99.99 percent air, ...

A team led by researchers has created a super-strong yet light structural metal with extremely high specific strength and modulus, or stiffness-to-weight ratio. To create the super-strong but ...

The bright minds at MIT are always cooking up new technologies, so to hear that they invented a new material that's stronger than steel isn't even all that surprising, but what's particularly ...

How do you build the world’s lightest metal? Make it mainly from air, according to scientists. The material, known as a "microlattice," was developed by scientists at HRL Laboratories in Malibu, ...