Chemical engineers at MIT have developed a new material that's stronger than steel and as light as plastic - and it might one day protect your smartphone, support new buildings, hold up bridges, and more. Polymerization 101: Under the right conditions, small molecules called "monomers" will connect to form chains called "polymers."

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Prof Sewell said the 'right people' are now interested in developing the potential new therapy and said progress could now move 'quite fast'. The team says human trials on terminally ill patients could begin as early as November if the new treatment passes further laboratory safety testing.

The remains of a giant penguin the size of a human have been discovered in New Zealand. The fossilised bones are of an animal thought to have been about 1.6m (5ft 3in) tall, weighing up to 80kg (176lb). It lived in the Paleocene Epoch, between 66 and 56 million years ago.