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The title on this article is one of my favorite gems:
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/scientific-breakthrough-mysterious-cosmic-metal-190000695.html
Cosmic metal?
Is that some kind of refined variation of unobtanium?
(Without reading more… I’m just going to assume they mean meteoric iron? Though the title does read like a prompt for a b-tier sci-fi that ends with Kirk trying to put his dick into something he absolutely shouldn’t put his dick into.)
Is it an urgent space-gem?
I enjoyed reading that. I'm no chemist or physicist, but that sounds like it could be a cool real world thing. Care to shatter my ignorance?
From what I understand its a Nickel alloy that has good magnetic properties which can replace rare earth alloys for magnets that renewable technology is heavily reliant on. At face value yes this would be pretty big, but in terms of actual real world practicality on replacing rare earth magnets I really couldn't tell you. Most science articles tend to oversell scientific breakthroughs in my experience, science is slow and incremental, if it's a real breakthrough the technology tends to catch fire fairly quickly before any articles are written on it