When Iron Man can't do the job, who ya gonna call? Well, how about Caltech theoretical physicist Mark Wise? In Iron Man 2, the blockbuster science-fiction film based on the comic book superhero, Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, is slowly dying from the palladium that gives him superhuman strength. He must come up with a new element to power the portable nuclear reactor attached to his chest so that he can defeat the evil Russian physicist Ivan Vanko. But how?

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