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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By Lisa McDonald / April 26, 2023

Recycling garnet solid electrolytes, 3D-printed mini vacuum pump, and other materials stories that may be of interest for April 26, 2023.

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Video: VCRs are no more—but magnetic tapes are still the rage

By Lisa McDonald / August 21, 2019

Although VHS tapes are viewed as a dead technology in the public entertainment sector, magnetic tapes provide valuable archive storage for companies and organizations handling big data—but an ongoing patent battle makes obtaining the newest tapes difficult.

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By April Gocha / April 7, 2015

Secret sidewalk art, the world’s thinnest float glass, and other materials stories that may be of interest for April 7, 2015.

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Friday physics fun: The charm and beauty of temps in the trillions and the Big Bang

By Eileen De Guire / August 24, 2012

Fermilab physicist explains particle physics concepts using water as an example. Credit: YouTube. “That sounds like a job for a refractory,” I thought to myself when I came across the…

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Monday materials mind candy

By / October 19, 2009

Particle physics on your coffee table! Via Symmetry Breaking, this is a wonderful pop-up book for adults and kids that illustrates CERN’s Large Hadron Collider and the ATLAS apparatus that…

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Monday materials mind candy

By / October 5, 2009

These guys are sorta cute, as stuffed standard model particles go, but the Bosons as a group are a little creepy and the gluon has definitely been sniffing the glue.…

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