This Metal Is About 100 Times Lighter Than Styrofoam, and Could Transform Air Travel By Christine Nguyen It’s a material called “microlattice” from Boeing and HRL Labs, and it’s supposedly 100 times lighter than Styrofoam. If it works like engineers intend, it could mean more energy-efficient — and substantially lighter — aircrafts. Read More Tags: metal lighter than stryrofoam boeing hrl labs original video microlattice select all More July 20, 2016 Watch Now Would You Volunteer to be Infected With COVID-19? How Epidemics Made NYC Better The Story of a Coronavirus Infection This May Be The World’s Lightest Metal