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Mark Waghorn

BIZARRE: Metals gain self healing ability paving the way for durable machines - What They Never Told You

Green marks the spot where a fissure formed and then fused back together in this artistic rendering of nanoscale self-healing in metal, discovered at Sandia National Laboratories. Red arrows indicate the direction of the pulling force that unexpectedly triggered the phenomenon. (DAN THOMPSON VIA SWNS)

Metals can heal themselves – just like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s cyborg assassin in “The Terminator“, according to new research.

It opens the door to self-fixing engines, bridges, airplanes, and even rockets – for manned missions to Mars.

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