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I'm lukewarm on the idea myself.
Give it time and that will change.Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
This is the cool science thread.
Hey chill the fuck out man.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mazderati
Did that come off hotheaded? My bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
I wondered weather you meant it or not.
Don't worry, cooler heads will prevail.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mazderati
Galaxy with almost no dark mater discovered
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-dark-galaxy.html
Paradoxically, this provides confirmatory evidence for dark matter's existence in the rest of the universe.
dark matter = climate change ....... deny, deny, deny, etc.
I'm guessing the missing DM is somehow associated with the orange shitgibbon.
Center of the galaxy contains upwards of 10,000 black holes
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...of-black-holes
There may be microbes in Venus' upper atmosphere
https://www.universetoday.com/138935...tops-of-venus/
Distribution of phosphorus in the galaxy/universe may be highly variable, which doesn't bode well for extraterrestrial life in the low P regions
https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0405093310.htm
A few years old but first time I'm seeing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmS0Q7jTPsk
TESS launches next week! Don't fuck this up, Elon.
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018...ations-launch/
Engineering a plastic-eating enzyme
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-plasti...ng-enzyme.html
God I hope so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
Can't see any potential for unexpected disaster there. Nope.
What could possibly go wrong with releasing a flesh-eating enzyme into our oceans?Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Enzymes are not self-replicating. This is probably going to be applied in an industrial setting to improve recycling efficiency, not mass dosing of the oceans. It may have to come to that, but it's probably not practical to do so. Of course, the original PETase enzyme they improved upon naturally evolved in a Japanese landfill so some ocean bacteria could already be well underway on a similar evolutionary trajectory.Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
What you’re looking at is the surface of the comet 67p/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which is orbited by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe. The photo comes from Rosetta’s OSIRIS, or Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System. The raw data was collected on June 1, 2016, and posted publicly on March 22 of this year.
https://gizmodo.com/incredible-new-g...-of-1825495142
https://i.imgur.com/cnwS04G.gif
There's pollen on comets?
incredible pic/video
Think couloir goes? Probably not enough gravity to get back on the ground if there’s mandatory air at the bottom.
That's amazing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mazderati
Macroscopic entanglement
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-entang...croscopic.html
OK, not quite macroscopic, but at 15 microns it's MASSIVE compared to photons or single atoms where quantum entanglement is usually studied.
Uranus smells like shit.
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/0...-think-it-does
'Reluctant Psychonaut' Michael Pollan Embraces The 'New Science' Of Psychedelics
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...f-psychedelics
Microbiologists Discover New Lineage of Archaea in Yellowstone
http://www.sci-news.com/biology/mars...ota-06007.html
Dude, its dumping at least an inch per mean solar hour? We´ll get a foot of pow by...dunno...2312?Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
While waiting for that, I´ll just keep on appreciating this thread.
https://nypost.com/2018/05/21/robots...-human-organs/
"Robots can now grow human organs"
headline is a little misleading, robots can do the task much faster than humans after being set up to do it; but goes to show you that there are more tasks that can be automated/done by robots than you would ever imagine.
Good discussion about that^^ from one of the Curiosity SAM team members: https://phys.org/news/2018-06-geobio...mons-mars.html
TL;DR summary: Not evidence of life at this time, but the discovery strongly validates future plans to bring samples back to Earth for more sophisticated analysis.
What was that recent movie when they opened the pod landing at the end but shouldn't have? I can't help but think of that. Damn movies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
Creepshow meteor, anyone?
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XnW_IScXcs...82_685x385.jpg
Looked it up:
Life
"No science-fiction movie that takes place at the International Space Station has been quite as terrifying as "Life," a new space thriller that comes out in theaters today (March 24).
In the film, a Mars sample-return mission delivers the first proof of alien life to a group of astronauts at the International Space Station (ISS). What is at first a harmless, single-celled organism sealed inside a box in the lab grows bigger, stronger, smarter and bloodthirsty. When it breaks out of its container and comes after the astronauts, all hell breaks loose. "
Yeah, so that.
Does it first rip the clothes off of the smokin' hot blonde Russion cosmonaut and ass-fuck her before killing everyone? Otherwise, I think I'll pass.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkiBall
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Bloody Picts.
^^^
"The authors believe that much of the knowledge was lost following the rise of Christianity in Britain.""
Go figure.
TB vaccine treats Type 1 diabeetus
http://www.bostonherald.com/lifestyl...ype_1_diabetes
The coldest spot in the universe is aboard the ISS
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science...rse-ncna885411
General Relativity confirmed again
https://gizmodo.com/einsteins-theory...a-g-1827026239
Last of universe's missing ordinary matter found
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-universe-ordinary.html
DTM, that TB vaccine (live attenuated BCG bactreia) has also been used to treat bladder cancer for the last ~30+yrs.
and more bugs as drugs, highlighting the intersection between diet, microbiome composition, and immune function: http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/10/446/eaau0471.full
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The ketogenic diet (KD) is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet that originally found prominence as a treatment for pediatric epilepsy and is now also being used as part of therapy for cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, metabolic syndrome, and autism spectrum disorders. However, the underlying mechanisms of the KD on neurological function are still not entirely clear. Olson et al. used a mouse model of refractory epilepsy to investigate the antiepileptic mechanisms of the KD. The authors first showed that the KD rapidly (within 4 days) altered the gut microbiota, specifically by increasing Akkermansia muciniphila and Parabecteroides. The KD increased seizure threshold to electrical stimulation; however, when KD-fed mice were treated with antibiotics to reduce intestinal bacteria, the seizure threshold returned to control levels. Similarly, in germ-free mice without a gut microbiota, KD did not modulate seizure threshold. Antibiotic-treated mice could have seizure protection restored by feeding with A. muciniphila and Parabecteroides, but not with either bacteria alone or with other bacteria. Administering A. muciniphila and Parabecteroides to mice fed with a normal diet provided a degree of protection against seizures, suggesting that the gut microbiota changes were responsible for the therapeutic effects produced by the KD, rather than the restriction of carbohydrates or the production of ketones. The authors then replicated these findings in a genetic mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy, demonstrating a significant effect of the gut microbiota on seizure susceptibility in epilepsy of multiple etiologies. Metabolomic analysis showed that both KD and A. muciniphila–and Parabacteroides-fed mice had an increased ratio of γ-aminobutyric acid (an inhibitory neurotransmitter) to glutamate (an excitatory neurotransmitter associated with seizure activity when in excess), specifically in the hippocampus, a brain region strongly associated with the propagation of seizures.