Researchers have created the fastest man-made rotor in the world which revolves more than 60 billion times a minute – more than 100,000 times faster than a high-speed dental drill. “This study has many applications, including material science,” says Purdue’s  Tongcang Li, “we can study the extreme conditions different materials can survive in.” Li’s team ...

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