Material that's metallic and glass-like but made from cement is NOT science fiction at Argonne National Laboratory

I read about this HERE in an article by Tona Kunz. Science, you so crazy. Transparent aluminum sounded cool when I was a kid. Whoknew the stuff was actually real? After reading the article posted as a news releaseon Argonne’s site, I think I just crapped my pants. And for those of you too young … Read more

Science fiction can predict the future

Prior to his death, Carl Sagan claimed that science and science-fiction kind of do this dance with one another. Jules Verne invented an atomic submarine way before one existed. Michael Crichton took genetic engineering and gave us dinosaurs. William Gibson saw what was happening in the eighties and coined a term, “cyberspace”. You may have … Read more