Cool Science thread

[powdrhound]

Don’t bogart that brazier, my friend:

https://www.npr.org/732084138

[iceman]

Must have been a cool piece of gear back in the day^^. Heat the rocks in a fire, drop them in the brazier, put the weed on top - it's prehistoric vaping!

[SkiCougar]

article link to nasa's media site which has put all media online to view for free, over 140,000 images: https://www.physics-astronomy.org/20...a-library.html

[reckless toboggan]

https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0626133800.htm

The first AI universe sim is fast and accurate and its creators don't know how it works

For the first time, astrophysicists have used artificial intelligence techniques to generate complex 3D simulations of the universe. The results are so fast, accurate and robust that even the creators aren't sure how it all works. The Deep Density Displacement Model can accurately simulate how the cosmos would look if certain parameters were tweaked -- such as the dark matter composition of the universe -- even though the model never received training data where those parameters varied.

[Flyoverland Captive]

That is pretty cool. ^^^

And maybe a bit unnerving...

[Dantheman]

Upwards of 5 feet of hail fell in Guadalajara yesterday: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/01/73758...os-guadalajara

[Viva]

ICE really is making things tough for the Mexicans.

[sb]

They could make margarita pops with it.

[Dantheman]

Scientists capture 4D atomic movement in breakthrough experiment
https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/01/...ment-captured/

[reckless toboggan]

Maggots are the answer to feeding a human population that's heading to nine billion people

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/...billion-people

[Dantheman]

Some potentially interesting developments for battery tech and geothermal
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-materi...ry-future.html
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-earth-...gy-source.html

Even chimps like TV together
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-great-...nd-videos.html

[reckless toboggan]

https://m.phys.org/news/2019-07-ultr...ectricity.html

Ultra-thin layers of rust generate electricity from flowing water

[reckless toboggan]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ough-patients/

Scientists decode brain speech signals into text in breakthrough for patients with severe disabilities

[reckless toboggan]

https://thenextweb.com/insights/2019...s-dice-or-not/

Quantum Darwinism may solve the question of whether God plays dice or not

[Viva]

https://thenextweb.com/insights/2019...s-dice-or-not/

Quantum Darwinism may solve the question of whether God plays dice or not

Interesting article (I loooooved quantum theory, but sucked at math and became a biologist instead), but I don't like the analogy to species evolution (it's not "Darwinism"). From what I garnered from the article, the described phenomenon seems more of a filter, a mechanism capable of biasing what becomes observable in the "classic" world, although "filter" isn't an appropriate analogy either. Regardless, there's no mention of this process leading to the evolution of new forms of particles.

[Dantheman]

Next-gen space telescopes:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019...agnifying-lens
https://phys.org/news/2019-08-lens-l...elescopes.html

[Gepeto]

Making spherical aberration a thing of the past...

A Mexican Physicist Solved a 2,000-Year Old Problem That Will Lead to Cheaper, Sharper Lenses

http://flip.it/Y8xGO7
Not a good link... Flip 8th article down

Thanks to Rafael G. González-Acuña, a doctoral student at Mexico’s Tecnológico de Monterrey. After months of work, he managed to come up with a mind-melting equation that provides an analytical solution for counteracting spherical aberration, which had been previously formulated back in 1949 as the Wasserman-Wolf problem which has stumped scientists for decades.

[MakersTeleMark]

^^^ that is fucking awesome.

[Viva]

A genetic basis for severe heart disease in humans - An evolutionary conserved mechanism in higher primates missing in peeples.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com...-heart-disease

Ajit Varki, a pioneer in the field of glycobiology, was one of my profs during grad school.

[Dantheman]

Interstellar supernova dust found in antarctic snow: https://phys.org/news/2019-08-scient...antarctic.html

[Dantheman]

Astronomy is firing this week.

LIGO and Virgo may have detected a black hole swallowing a neutron star: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/articl...n-star-merger/

Europa Clipper is a full go: https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/20/...uropa-mission/

[reckless toboggan]

https://www.sciencealert.com/brain-t...re-term-babies

Brain Waves Have Been Detected Coming From 'Mini Brains' Grown in The Lab

For the first time, brain tissue grown in a lab has spontaneously exhibited electrical activity, and it looks startlingly similar to human brain activity.

[I've seen black diamonds!]

http://news.mit.edu/2019/aharonov-bo...-observed-0905

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[Dantheman]

First hint that body’s ‘biological age’ can be reversed
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02638-w

[old goat]

Scientists don't underllstand quantum mechanics and don't care. Scientists who stray from the orthodoxy can't publish and are shunned. (But don't tell Ron Johnson.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/o...m-physics.html
Anyway, the orthodoxy eventually breaks down and the truth comes out. It just takes a while sometimes. Galileo was right.