In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the crew of the USS Enterprise travels back in time to find a humpback whale and transport this back to the 24 th Century. In the absence of the 23 rd Century ...

In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, crew members of the USS Enterprise — Mr. Scott and Dr. McCoy — trade the formula for transparent aluminum, a material with glass-like transparency while ...

"Star Trek" is celebrating its 50th birthday this week and, as has become customary for Star Trek milestones, a certain amount of attention once again falls to the myriad real-life technologies ...

Coincidentally, AlON development was underway more or less at the same time that Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home was being produced; it was from the now classic scene from that film were Scotty uses ...

In the movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Scotty and Bones provided a 20th century engineer the formula for transparent aluminum. It was in exchange for materials to build a whale tank.

'Transparent aluminum' previously only existed in science fiction, featuring in the movie Star Trek IV, but the real material is an exotic new state of matter with implications for planetary ...

M any fans of the original series movies count Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, as their favorite among the 6 movies that ...

Affordable Star Trek-like transparent aluminum could protect phones, windows, and lenses. Researchers have improved transparent aluminum manufacturing to where it could be used for larger design.