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First: Better Off Ted
A new show about R&D director for a large mad science corporation
"We want to weaponise a pumpkin."
Protein structure determined in living cells which may, one day, allow for resolution of how proteins participate in biological processess within living tissues. It's biogeek stuff.
Scientists have developed a nanoporus material with more than 5000 square metres per gram
European scientists are working on post 4G technologies (1500 times the speed of upcoming 4G mobile networks in fact), experimentally able to deliver 12.5 gigabytes a second uncompressed wireless HD only requires 3Gb a second, has been developed - we'll probably see the frst uses of this in recording sports events, I'm presuming.
More mind reading stuff - scientists can now, by scanning someone's brain know more about where you've been
Science determines the chemicals that make Gouda tasty - on food science, an old but good one - molecular gastronomy, wherein foods are chemically examined to find out which things that you wouldn't go together actually will - who would have thought that Pineapple, Blue Cheese, and White Wine would have gone together? Now I want to try out some of these pairings, our of curiosity.
In space news, scientists appear to have sidestepped the "warm box" necessity - means of protecting electronics from extremes of temperatures or exposure to radiation, some commercially available designs having been tested down to 2 kelvin (that's 2 degrees above absolute zero, or -271 celcius). Which is some space age stuff right there, in and of itself, and one step closer to holding the stars in the palms of our hands.
Ultra thin chips developed for wearable electronics
Oh, and under certain conditions graphite functions as a superconductor; sodium becomes transperant (and not metallic) under high (but experimetally obtainable) pressure - which is interesting for the information this gives us about material sciences; patients who give up smoking before surgery have half as many complications; random network connectivity can be delayed, but at the cost of explosive crystallisation of connectivity once it begins; Nanofluids have been developed for high grade heating or cooling; Doctors have successfully removed 7 organs, removed a tumor and replaced all organs in a 7 year old girl who has now recovered enough to go home; When usicians play together, their EEGs beomce more synchronized; A new generation of oral vaccinne has been developed using dairy probiotics (which has already been used to immunise against anthrax exposure (80% survival in mice which is comparable with injected vaccinnes)) removing the need for adjuncts which stimulate the immune system at the site of injection (and co-commitent side effects) - bad news for the lactose allergent, I suppose.
Anyway, I've been finding this stuff interesting, and have been on a science kick (primarily due to ACW character creation, I suppose). Does anyone else find it interesting?
A new show about R&D director for a large mad science corporation
Click to view"We want to weaponise a pumpkin."
Protein structure determined in living cells which may, one day, allow for resolution of how proteins participate in biological processess within living tissues. It's biogeek stuff.
Scientists have developed a nanoporus material with more than 5000 square metres per gram
European scientists are working on post 4G technologies (1500 times the speed of upcoming 4G mobile networks in fact), experimentally able to deliver 12.5 gigabytes a second uncompressed wireless HD only requires 3Gb a second, has been developed - we'll probably see the frst uses of this in recording sports events, I'm presuming.
More mind reading stuff - scientists can now, by scanning someone's brain know more about where you've been
Science determines the chemicals that make Gouda tasty - on food science, an old but good one - molecular gastronomy, wherein foods are chemically examined to find out which things that you wouldn't go together actually will - who would have thought that Pineapple, Blue Cheese, and White Wine would have gone together? Now I want to try out some of these pairings, our of curiosity.
In space news, scientists appear to have sidestepped the "warm box" necessity - means of protecting electronics from extremes of temperatures or exposure to radiation, some commercially available designs having been tested down to 2 kelvin (that's 2 degrees above absolute zero, or -271 celcius). Which is some space age stuff right there, in and of itself, and one step closer to holding the stars in the palms of our hands.
Ultra thin chips developed for wearable electronics
Oh, and under certain conditions graphite functions as a superconductor; sodium becomes transperant (and not metallic) under high (but experimetally obtainable) pressure - which is interesting for the information this gives us about material sciences; patients who give up smoking before surgery have half as many complications; random network connectivity can be delayed, but at the cost of explosive crystallisation of connectivity once it begins; Nanofluids have been developed for high grade heating or cooling; Doctors have successfully removed 7 organs, removed a tumor and replaced all organs in a 7 year old girl who has now recovered enough to go home; When usicians play together, their EEGs beomce more synchronized; A new generation of oral vaccinne has been developed using dairy probiotics (which has already been used to immunise against anthrax exposure (80% survival in mice which is comparable with injected vaccinnes)) removing the need for adjuncts which stimulate the immune system at the site of injection (and co-commitent side effects) - bad news for the lactose allergent, I suppose.
Anyway, I've been finding this stuff interesting, and have been on a science kick (primarily due to ACW character creation, I suppose). Does anyone else find it interesting?