Algorithm Predicts New Superhard Materials 85
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers in New York have developed an algorithm that can predict new superhard materials — a relatively small class of compounds of which diamond is the most famous. Beyond the pluses this represents for, say, the drilling industry, the physicists claim say their computational approach can be used to think up new materials of all sorts. 'New materials with desired properties will be routinely discovered using supercomputers,' they say, 'instead of the expensive trial-and-error method that is used today.'"
Re:Penis? (Score:2, Insightful)
No. Your head.
Slashdot Admins, I think you deliberately set-up these threads, with double-entendre postings. At least, that's what she said."
If they can do any property, then here's one.... (Score:2, Insightful)
What complex molecule formula does it spit out for the property of superconductivity at room temperature?
Because really, if it can't find formulas for things we haven't figured out on our own yet, just how useful is it?