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A revolutionary carbon foam and ceramic sandwich allows a human spacecraft to graze the solar corona at nearly 700,000 km/h without melting.
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With no oxide layers or atmosphere to stand in the way, two identical metal parts fuse permanently upon direct contact.
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In absolute vacuum, two clean metal pieces bind irreversibly just by touching because their atoms recognize no boundaries.
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An engineering megastructure promising to revolutionize travel beyond Earth with a tether made of nanomaterials.