It looks like a tube made of glass but it’s actually aluminum. Well, aluminum with an asterisk beside it — this is not elemental aluminum but rather a material made using it. We got onto the ...

There’s a famous scene in one of the Star Trek movies where Scotty, who has traveled to the past, teaches a metal company to create the transparent aluminum he needs to bring some whales back to ...

The bigger challenge is making the wires and other parts of the pixel transparent. Nearly every wire you've ever touched is either copper, aluminum, or some combination of those. They're obviously ...