The Etymology of Unobtanium The much-mocked wonder-rock from the 2009 blockbuster ‘Avatar’ doesn’t have an atomic number, but engineers have used the actual word for decades ...

India, Japan, USA and Australia have launched a “Critical Minerals Initiative” they hope will harden supply chains.

Unobtainium could be anything that someone within an organization requested that is not available—at least not easily so—in the real world. It simply cannot be obtained.

While unobtanium can never be reached, it’s worth trying to get there to drive technology forward. A further example is the single crystal turbine blade developed by Rolls-Royce in 2012. Each blade is ...

Hold on to your Toruk, the so-called unobtanium graphics setting is intended to melt future hardware. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Like Unobtanium in Avatar, Tulkun enzyme is kind of treated as a minor detail within the story of Avatar: The Way of Water – but one that could grow exponentially more important in Avatar 3 and ...

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora's PC Benchmark tool is Ubisoft's most detailed and impressive to date, and it features a hidden preset that stresses all GPUs.