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Submission + - Researchers Create Two-Dimensional Glass (sciencemag.org) 8

sciencehabit writes: Researchers have created the world's thinnest pane of glass. The glass, made of silicon and oxygen, formed accidentally when the scientists were making graphene, an atom-thick sheet of carbon, on copper-covered quartz. They believe an air leak caused the copper to react with the quartz, which is also made of silicon and oxygen, producing a glass layer with the graphene. The glass is a mere three atoms thick—the minimum thickness of silica glass—which makes it two-dimensional. The team notes that the structure "strikingly resembles" a diagram drawn by a glass theorist attempting to unravel its structure back in 1932. Such ultra-thin glass could be used in semiconductor or graphene transistors.

Comment Re:How many ways are there to do simple things? (Score 1) 694

I actually remember getting in trouble back in school for having similar code to some friends of mine that used a stack to count the number of A's and B's in a string. Exactly how many was is that supposed to be done? for(all char in string) if(is an A) push else if(is a B) pop if(stack is empty) return true; hooray! plagiarism!

Comment Re:Vaporware (Score 1) 1006

This isnt software. They cant just decide to go gold with that days build and start stamping media. This is a car. In order for it to be produced in 2010, its design would need to be all but final, its production methods laid out, tested, and prepared for, if not already implemented in one of GM's plants. Comparing this process to duke nukem is little more than a +5 funny karam grab.

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