US Physicists create super-hard metal 'four times tougher than titanium'.

[ScienceRocks]

US Physicists create super-hard metal 'four times tougher than titanium'.

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A super-hard metal has been made in the laboratory by melting together titanium and gold.


The alloy is the hardest known metallic substance compatible with living tissues, say US physicists.

The material is four times harder than pure titanium and has applications in making longer-lasting medical implants, they say.

Conventional knee and hip implants have to be replaced after about 10 years due to wear and tear.

The hardness of the substance, together with its higher biocompatibility, makes it a "next generation compound for substantively extending the lifetime of dental implants and replacement joints".
It may also have applications in the drilling industry, the sporting goods industry and many other potential fields, she added.

nice discovery

 

[Mac1958]

One of my kids is in college studying biomedical engineering. Great stuff like this keeps coming out - she's gonna be busy.

I tell her that maybe one day she'll 3D-print her old Dad a new hip!
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[gipper]

They didn't do that. The government did.

 

[Mousterian]

We can only hope the amazing advances being made in science (so many of them as radical as this one), can overcome the radical issues facing humanity.
GW, inequality, consumerism, overpopulation...
If you're gonna thank God for anything, thank him for Science!

 

[yiostheoy]

I'm glad they found this out before I need joint replacements.

 

[Iceweasel]

We can only hope the amazing advances being made in science (so many of them as radical as this one), can overcome the radical issues facing humanity.
GW, inequality, consumerism, overpopulation...
If you're gonna thank God for anything, thank him for Science!

And we can thank liberals for all the propaganda, scare tactics and mountains of steamy bullshit.

 

[Two Thumbs]

US Physicists create super-hard metal 'four times tougher than titanium'.

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A super-hard metal has been made in the laboratory by melting together titanium and gold.


The alloy is the hardest known metallic substance compatible with living tissues, say US physicists.

The material is four times harder than pure titanium and has applications in making longer-lasting medical implants, they say.

Conventional knee and hip implants have to be replaced after about 10 years due to wear and tear.

The hardness of the substance, together with its higher biocompatibility, makes it a "next generation compound for substantively extending the lifetime of dental implants and replacement joints".
It may also have applications in the drilling industry, the sporting goods industry and many other potential fields, she added.

nice discovery

made from gold?

that gunna be expensive

 

[Two Thumbs]

We can only hope the amazing advances being made in science (so many of them as radical as this one), can overcome the radical issues facing humanity.
GW, inequality, consumerism, overpopulation...
If you're gonna thank God for anything, thank him for Science!

wow, dyed in the wool stewpud

won't bother with gw, that's it's own thread

what inequality and where?

what's wrong with buying things

and did you know we can put the entire population inside the borders of Texas and farm the world?

 

[konradv]

They didn't do that. The government did.

Good chance we paid for the research.

 

[ScienceRocks]

We can only hope the amazing advances being made in science (so many of them as radical as this one), can overcome the radical issues facing humanity.
GW, inequality, consumerism, overpopulation...
If you're gonna thank God for anything, thank him for Science!

And we can thank liberals for all the propaganda, scare tactics and mountains of steamy bullshit.

How is none of this a nonissue...Because you believe it is without any evidence?

 

[anotherlife]

They didn't do that. The government did.

Good chance we paid for the research.

No you didn't pay for the research, you just gave back the money that you borrowed from the government so that the government can finance it.

 

[anotherlife]

We can only hope the amazing advances being made in science (so many of them as radical as this one), can overcome the radical issues facing humanity.
GW, inequality, consumerism, overpopulation...
If you're gonna thank God for anything, thank him for Science!

Actually science and engineering is usually associated with Satan, not God. Even in the Greek mythology, it was against the will of the gods, that Prometheus brought the fire to the humans, the first scientific achievement.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

They didn't do that. The government did.

They drove over roads and bridges