alt Hacker NewsI guess I'm not impressed that some totally different alloy is stronger than steel. You can't change both method and alloy and claim that the method is better. Presumably the paper compared the same alloy using the normal and the new method, but this article omitted that essential information, and in so doing destroyed the result.
I think that’s right, yes… from TFA:
> It's two times stronger than steel, three times stronger than aluminum, and twice as strong as the same alloy made in a conventional way.
The source paper in Science, fwiw:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec4995
And as a personal exercise in intellectual humility, I cast my eyes over the supplementary materials (as those are free-to-the-public)… I’d recommend it:
https://www.science.org/doi/suppl/10.1126/science.aec4995/su...
I get a huge thrill out of looking at serious work outside my expertise. When I’m tempted to imagine the proposition is as simple as it seems from the headline (or the article, or the editor’s note, or the abstract), it excites me to remember just how deeply and carefully and thoroughly people think through things I barely understand.