Sci Fi/Sci Fact - Xmen: Wolverine's Adamantium Claws

Marvel's Wolverine first appeared in 1974. He is a gruff Canadian mutant who joins the superhero league of X-Men. Wolverine has super healing abilities and claws that come out when he's angry, which catch the attention of shady military figures who try to turn him into a weapon by fusing Adamantium to his skeleton.

Associate Investigator Dr Chris Bumby, Principal Scientist at Victoria University of Wellington’s Robinson Institute, gives us his scientific take on Adamantium.

He says adamantium appears to be strong, tough and hard which in scientific terms each have very specific meanings. And about the the time Marvel began writing the Wolverine stories, titanium technology was really taking off.