{"id":5472,"date":"2011-02-02T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5472"},"modified":"2011-01-23T18:07:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T22:07:25","slug":"metallic-glass-stronger-than-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5472","title":{"rendered":"Metallic glass stronger than steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p \/>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/\">MSNBC<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>David Teeghman, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/\">Discovery News<\/a><\/p>\n<p \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/41192768\/ns\/technology_and_science-innovation\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/110121-metallic-glass-hmed-736a.grid-6x2.jpg\" alt=\"metallic glass 6x2 grid\" title=\"metallic glass grid-6x2\" width=\"474\" height=\"310\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5473\" srcset=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/110121-metallic-glass-hmed-736a.grid-6x2.jpg 474w, http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/110121-metallic-glass-hmed-736a.grid-6x2-150x98.jpg 150w, http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/110121-metallic-glass-hmed-736a.grid-6x2-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>Glass has a lot going for it: it&#8217;s easy to clean and you can see straight through it. The only problem is that it&#8217;s fragile and brittle, and that means it breaks easily. That&#8217;s why researchers have created a new type of glass that is stronger and tougher than steel.<\/p>\n<p \/>In fact, this new type of damage-tolerant glass has actually demonstrated a durability greater than any known material.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/41192768\/ns\/technology_and_science-innovation\/\">FULL STORY<\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>Reminds me of &#8220;transparent aluminum&#8221; [Star Trek, the Voyage Home]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via MSNBC David Teeghman, Discovery News Glass has a lot going for it: it&#8217;s easy to clean and you can see straight through it. The only problem is that it&#8217;s fragile and brittle, and that means it breaks easily. That&#8217;s why researchers have created a new type of glass that is stronger and tougher than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5472"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5478,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions\/5478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}