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 ...

A laser hit the tiny black cube, and it lurched forward almost at once. That split-second jump, caught during a zero-gravity arc aboard a parabolic flight, points to a strange and promising idea for ...

Researchers report that, in a parabolic-flight microgravity test, a laser was able to accelerate ultralight graphene aerogels to speeds and distances that exceeded what the same setup achieved under ...

Ultralight and exceptionally strong, graphene aerogels are attractive materials for use as catalysts, electrodes, and flexible electronics. But so far it has been hard to make them both strong and ...

Is this the propulsion for the spacecraft of the future? A team of scientists has developed an aerogel made of graphene that could be used as a light-driven propulsion for spacecraft. In near ...

A fingertip-sized cube of carbon foam, struck by a laser pulse inside a vacuum chamber during freefall, shot forward at 1.7 meters per second with no chemical propellant involved. The demonstration ...