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We continue our series in collaboration with the MacDiarmid Institute where we take an idea from fiction and see how it stands up to scientific scrutiny.
Tonight, McDiarmid Institute co-director and Auckland University associate physics professor, Nicola Gaston's flight of fancy is the mineral unobtanium...most recently the plot device behind the movie Avatar, although it's had other outings int science fiction pop culture.