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[headcube]

In an amazing example of life imitating Star Trek they've actually created transparent aluminum. Unfortunately it has two main drawbacks that will likely prevent it from being used in whale enclosures in the near future:

1. It's only transparent to X-rays, and
2. A few nano-seconds after you create it, it explodes.

Brilliant.

Comments

[northernmonkey]

I think Justin (in the article) is my hero: "As soon as you make it, the stuff blows up"

Just what science is for.... splodey!