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Published 10 years ago by belangermira with 2 Comments
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Student Finds Way to Boost Conductivity 400x Totally by Accident

Like a modern Henri Becquerel, Washington State University doctoral student Marianne Tarun's discovery came quite by accident. Her simple lab error has uncovered a new way to boost electrical conductivity of a crystal by 40,000 percent, simply by exposing it to light.

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  • sysadmin
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    This could eventually lead to massive increases in data capacity

    Just what the NSA loves to hear

    10 years ago
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    • drunkenninja
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      Yep, there is no telling what technologies are already in use by NSA that we dont know about.

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