100 Times Lighter Than Styrofoam!

Scientists have invented a new material that is so lightweight it can sit atop a fluffy dandelion without crushing the little fuzzy seeds. It’s so lightweight, styrofoam is 100 times heavier. It is so lightweight, in fact, that the research team consisting of scientists at UC Irvine, HRL Laboratories and Caltech say in the peer-reviewed Nov. 18 issue of Science that it is the lightest material on Earth, and no one has asked them to run a correction yet. That’s light!

What, besides not destroying a dandelion ghost, would you do with the lightest material on Earth? Use it to structure incredibly elaborate pageant dresses and wedding gowns? Build a car out of it to lift up in front of your friends? Make all the groceries out of it? Wow, good ideas.