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  • Tires, by Flickr user Jayme del Rosario (Used under CC License)

    It's a situation drivers are all too familiar with: cruising along the road when suddenly a tire goes flat. Curse words, struggles, and inconvenience ensue. Researchers at Harvard University have developed a potential solution that could put flat tires, and the baggage that comes with them, in the past. The material is as tough as natural rubber but combines new engineering feats to create a durable, self-healing rubber, according to Phys.org. Self-healing technology isn't new, but it's proven to be much more difficult to incorporate the technology into solid materials, such as rubber...

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