Iron Man: The science behind the fiction

NewScientist.com | May 1, 2008 By Celeste Biever and Rowan Hooper A couple of things make Iron Man different to your regular comic-book superhero movie. First, there is the hero himself, Tony Stark, a scientific genius who for once is not the timid or bespectacled geek we are used to in Hollywood, but is charismatic, confident, and a hit with the ladies. Stark is played by Robert Downey Jr, and we think he deserves to go in any list of the top 10 coolest fictional scientists But it is t
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