This was discovered 6 years ago, and tons of the steel has been produced since then. This is much further along than I expected
I hate when they se terms like “cannot be explained” in the headline, and then proceed to explain it in the article.
How lazy are journalists and editors these days?
It’s all clickbait, people see a headline like that and read the article because it sounds like someone is making magic metal.
You wouldn’t believe!
Number 4 will shock you!
I’m right there with you when that kind of clickbaiting crops up, but this article actually isn’t doing that; they’re actually quoting the researchers:
[Manganese]-based passivation is a counter-intuitive discovery, which cannot be explained by current knowledge in corrosion science.
This seems like a genuinely novel discovery.
How dare you attempt to temper my outrage!
Tempering the metal might ruin the protective properties!
Fuck you for making me giggle. Take this upvote and shove it!
DID SOMEBODY SAY OUTRAGE?!
BlickCait.
If something in a headline is in quotes, it should be a direct quote. In this case, they are following that standard. It’s a direct quote of Dr. Kaiping Yu who worked on the research.
It also happens to make for a very catchy headline.
Damn, they’re scrapping UFOs now for their high purity steel (/s)
Unexplained Ferrous Objects
was this research leaked from xcom?
Particle beams when? I need to upgrade my arsenal. The way things are going in the US there’s liable to be a civil war part 2 soon, sadly.
Can’t be a UFO, they identified it, even the materials it’s made of, so now it us an IFO
I am pretty sure it is not flying anymore either, so just IO now.
Are these the same researchers baffled by fucking magnets?
How do they work‽
The title makes it sound like it just walked around the corner and declared itself.
You can definitely tell who read the article based on how people are commenting.
I’m pretty selective of which click bait articles I click on.
Headlines like that discourage a lot of users from clicking. Seems like clickbait
