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Paved roads are nice to look at, but they're easily damaged and costly to repair. Erik Schlangen demos a new type of porous, asphalt made of simple materials with an astonishing feature: When cracked, it can be "healed" by induction heating. (Filmed at TEDxDelft.)

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