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Scientists create “impossible material”—dubbed Upsalite—by accident (arstechnica.com)
12 points by tambourine_man on Aug 12, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



The author/editor's definition of "impossible" is very loose. It was an "impossible material" because they did not know how to make it, not because they believed it couldn't exist.




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