Here are some informative and fun links -- I'll let you decide which is which:

1. Crystals in Meteorite Harder Than Diamond, a news story by Larry O'Hanlon in MSNBC.com.

   
   



2. A Boing Boing post by Cory Doctorow: Liquid glass will change your life, eliminate detergent profits.

   
   

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GATE-2010 is just about month away -- it's scheduled for Sunday, the 14th of February. I presume a fairly large number of MI members are working hard towards acing this test.

This year's GATE has one major new feature: a common component called

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Exactly 50 years ago yesterday, Richard Feynman gave that famous lecture -- There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom -- at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

Though I missed this major anniversary yesterday, I'm glad to treat this as yet another opportunity to go back and marvel at the fantastic vision for the kinds of cool things Feynman

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Loved this article in JOM: here's one for all of us interested in CMS research:

INTRODUCTION

Materials science and engineering (MSE) encompasses metallurgy, semiconductors, ceramic engineering, and polymer science. It is a multidisciplinary field that enables new technologies required to address a wide variety of critical challenges facing society, such as clean energy production. While traditionally viewed as an experimental discipline, many researchers have begun to take advantage of… Continue

Friends currently m a bit confused and worried abt my job, m abt to finish my 7th semester n the job nerve is really worrying me..friends suggest me smthn that can calm down this nerve...n all dear proffesors as i m going to appear in GATE also, kindly suggest smthn which can help me to get a gud percentile... Continue