Now I get where the phrase "yeah, like when elephant birds fly" comes from.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
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Now I get where the phrase "yeah, like when elephant birds fly" comes from.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
Spinal stimulator allows paralyzed patients towalk again
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...gain-movement/
MDMA therapy achieves astounding 76% success rate for treating PTSD
https://newatlas.com/mdma-ptsd-succe...results/57074/
Global air travel may actually reduce the odds of a devastating global pandemic
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/08/31/404871
Searching for the biological basis behind the placebo effect
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/m...-medicine.html
Approaching stream of dark matter offers a unique opportunity to study and possibly detect it directly
https://phys.org/news/2018-11-dark-h...ce-axions.html
Maybe not as much cool science as cool/terrfiying nature, but more from the deep sea fisherman
https://gizmodo.com/this-deep-sea-fi...rie-1830402780
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https://twitter.com/rfedortsov/statu...796352/photo/1
That first picture. The thing in it's mouth isn't food. It's a parasite that eats the fish's tongue, then lives in it's mouth replacing the tongue, stealing the food the fish eatsQuote:
Originally Posted by JimmyCarter
I originally read this 4 hours ago when i was eating lunch and almost threw up.Quote:
Originally Posted by abraham
Also:
https://gizmodo.com/a-massive-impact...een-1830437095
Massive Impact Crater Has Been Detected Beneath Greenland’s Ice Sheet
Damn, estimated to have been from a 1-km iron-rich asteroid.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyCarter
Water plasma rocket engine
https://spacenews.com/momentus-devel...water-engines/
Carbon-neutral energy from poop
https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...1113080903.htm
China is going to build an absolutely massive particle accelerator
https://www.newsweek.com/china-build...bosons-1212880
Quantum GPS that doesn't use satellites
https://www.teslarati.com/quantum-co...gps-satellite/
I love new ways to visualize data. Check out the second figure on this page that simulates the average day for 1,000 people by time.
https://flowingdata.com/2015/12/15/a...jTke-NP4yGx3GA
A: That is awesome
B: 1 out of every 20 people are sleeping at 2pm? WTF?!?!
night shift workers?Quote:
Originally Posted by beece
Shift workers was my immediate thought.
I don't think it's all shift workers, because at 2am only 1% of the population is working. It looks like it's naps.
What am I doing wrong? I don't get to nap!
Siesta?Quote:
Originally Posted by beece
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Mars Insight lands next week...
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/insight
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Everything you thought about mouth breathers is true
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/w...e=sectionfront
First two CRISPR gene-edited babies claimed to be born in China. Scary stuff. A big no, no to the rest of the world.
They chose to knock out a gene (CCR5) that can prevent HIV infection (although it can increase susceptibility to infection by influenza).
Whoops, just came here to post a link to that story, but clearly, I was beaten to the punch.
What a fucking piece of shit. There is no limit to the gall and lack of ethical fortitude on display there.
I watched that live on the NASA channel today. Amazing how so many morons can argue that they know more about climate change and science than people who can land a freaking space ship on Mars.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ripzalot
^^^ Watched that too; freaking amazing. The brainpower in that control room is off the charts.
Plaid, too, apparently.
Astronomers measure total starlight emitted over 13.7bn years
Stars have radiated 4x10 to the 84th photons since the universe begun with formation peaking 11bn years ago.
Pfftt....Quote:
Originally Posted by PNWbrit
That is barely more than a 1/4 of a Google. :cool:
Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.
Successful arrival of OSIRUS-REx at Bennu! Hopefully the sample collection and return to Earth goes smoothly.
Dark matter and dark energy may be different properties of a single "dark fluid" that has negative mass: https://phys.org/news/2018-12-bizarr...tive-mass.html
Aka the Devil's jizz?????
Honda is developing fluoride-based batteries that could achieve order-of-magnitude increases in energy storage over lithium batteries
https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/07/...akthrough-evs/
Of course, "the team still has to figure out how to stabilize the anodes and cathodes, which tend to dissolve completely into the electrolyte" so they've got a ways to go.
Turn off one gene, eat whatever you want and don't get fat. Color me skeptical.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmac.../#6e70ca551bda
OSIRIS-REx confirms there's hydrated minerals on Bennu, which means that liquid water was once present on Bennu's parent body
https://phys.org/news/2018-12-osiris...t-mission.html
Loop quantum gravity suggests that white holes emerge from black holes
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v11/127
2.6 million years ago Earth was inundated with radiation from distant supernovae that may have killed Megalodon and other megafauna
https://phys.org/news/2018-12-supern...mals-dawn.html
That's not very long ago.
Not to worry, just need spf 10,000,000
AlphaZero beting its old iteration AlphaGo in 30 hours.
And to think that it is over 20 years since Deep Blue beat Garri Kasparov in chess.
Time flies.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6419/1140
Rad.
That is cool. Life is amazing.
I'm not sure what's cooler, that we're just discovering this ancient eukaryotic group, or that it's now possible to sequence a eukaryotic genome from a single cell's worth of DNA.
That's a pretty big find.
The shrink ray has arrived:
http://news.mit.edu/2018/shrink-any-...nanoscale-1213
Sort of.
^^^That's the kind of stuff that makes me think that Ray Kurzweil is right.