Ductile metals at -250°C: discovery described in Nature

Most metals at -253°C become brittle and crumble under stress instead of deforming. An international team of scientists, including researchers from UC Berkeley and the University of Oxford, described in Nature two metal alloys that retain ductility and the ability to deform permanently even in such extreme cold.

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