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Iron Man-inspired material made from DNA and glass is 5x stronger than steel — and 4x lighter
(www.zmescience.com)
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2023
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I always hear about these new amazing materials. While they’re great concepts they’re usually held back by how crazy expensive they are to produce. I’m betting this falls into that bin
Yep. As soon as you read the title you know it's useless.
Either too expensive, or it only works at a microscopic level but doesn't scale, or just doesn't actually work.
It's like all the cancer cures you hear about that unfortunstely mostly don't pan out. Just clickbait headlines.
One thing to always have in mind is that the poor researchers making these discoveries are victims too. They spend months, if not years researching and when they publish their research some random tech website make a clickbait article about it, usually by taking a few sentences out of context and using hyperbole.