Posted Aug. 3, 2009 at 7:40 PM

Issues: Ethics

http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2009/090727_2.html

Ahh...the keyboard...how quaint...Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world’s most powerful soft X-ray laser. ‘Transparent aluminium’ previously only existed in science fiction, featuring in the movie Star Trek IV, but the real material is an exotic new state of matter with implications for planetary science and nuclear fusion.Now would