Cracked Piece of Metal Heals Itself in Experiment That Stuns Scientists

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• carl_dungeon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Any headline that talks about “stunning”, “shocking”, or “angering” scientists gets an immediate red flag for me, right up there with “breakthrough” battery tech.

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  • WadeTheWizard@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    New battery tech shocks scientist after breakingthrough insulated casing.

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    • carl_dungeon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      🤯

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  • niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Middle-aged men in white labcoats and with clipboard in hand, using the words “uncanny” and “eerie” in vague sentences.

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  • blackbrook@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, and it’s particularly obnoxious when they seem to have twisted a quote as an excuse for this: ‘“This was absolutely stunning to watch first-hand,” said materials scientist Brad Boyc.’ I’m pretty sure that use of the word means “beautiful”, not “shocking.”

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• millie@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This seems really cool, but my two main thoughts when I see something like this are: how badly are they misreporting this, and will anyone bother writing an article about the retraction a few months down the road when it turns out this was something completely different?

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• PixeIOrange@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “A possible explanation involves a process known as cold welding, which occurs under ambient temperatures whenever metal surfaces come close enough together for their respective atoms to tangle together.”

  Am i silly or where is the difference? Cold welding is known long times, nothing to be stunned about.

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