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Analogy Watch: Muon Collisions And The Machine That Will See Them

The most recent issue of symmetry magazine has a feature titled, "When Muons Collide," by Leah...

BUMP: Bad Use For A Mobile Phone

The La Jolla, California-based company BUMP launched earlier this week with an eponymous web service...

Analogy Watch: Gravitational Lensing

My last post about hydrogen bonding included a video about dogs as an analogy to the chemistry...

Analogy Watch: Hydrogen Bonding

A video posted on A Blog Around the Clock a few days ago discusses the mechanisms behind hydrogen...

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A highly elastic composite metal foam could one day be a favorable material for biomedical implants and car bumpers. No, this isn’t a close-up of the surface of a golf ball. It’s a new type of material, one that is porous and elastic, lighter than solid aluminum yet stronger than steel, one that its creators are calling an “ultra high-strength metal matrix composite foam.” A bit of a misnomer, really, considering the foam is made up entirely of stainless steel.