Stand back! I'm about to make SCIENCE!
Nov. 11th, 2009 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agentotterOkay, so I don't understand exactly what it is she's making or what you do with them, but this woman? My new hero. She replaced a process that used $100,000 fabricating machines with.... Shrinky-Dinks. No, I am not shitting you. She's custom-manufacturing high-tech devices in a matter of minutes using shrinky-dinks and a toaster oven. This technology can be used in stem cell research, and she also sees applications for making solar cells more efficient. She's like MacGyver, only super-hot and probably like... a million times smarter. In fact, she and MacGyver should have little MacGyver-like children, who will inevitably RULE THE WORLD.
This picture of the core of the Milky Way is ridiculously beautiful. I want to wallpaper a room with it so when you step inside it's like you're at the center of the galaxy. That would be so freaking awesome. Almost as awesome as actually being in space. Almost.
Smalleye stingrays are actually quite large when it comes to their other body parts, and a BBC camera crew has for the first time captured one on film. It doesn't seem all that impressive until the diver starts swimming next to it and you're all, "OMG WTF GIANT STINGRAY!"
Apparently scientists have discovered the gene that causes age-related hearing loss in humans and have managed to prevent hearing loss in older mice by removing that gene. I'm taking this as yet another sign that the cyberpunk novels of my youth were on the right track with the future of medical technology.
I should note for the record that I do not like coffee. At all. But I do like the insane designs that the world's "baristas" make with said coffee. For instance, the universe in a cup or this super bad-ass dragon. This has nothing to do with science really (well, it does, but only in the way that all everyday things somehow have something to do with science), but I wanted to share.
You should know that this is how everything goes to hell during a zombie apocalypse. This is only marginally science-related, in that it shows us how science will be the doom of us aaaaaalllll.
This picture of the core of the Milky Way is ridiculously beautiful. I want to wallpaper a room with it so when you step inside it's like you're at the center of the galaxy. That would be so freaking awesome. Almost as awesome as actually being in space. Almost.
Smalleye stingrays are actually quite large when it comes to their other body parts, and a BBC camera crew has for the first time captured one on film. It doesn't seem all that impressive until the diver starts swimming next to it and you're all, "OMG WTF GIANT STINGRAY!"
Apparently scientists have discovered the gene that causes age-related hearing loss in humans and have managed to prevent hearing loss in older mice by removing that gene. I'm taking this as yet another sign that the cyberpunk novels of my youth were on the right track with the future of medical technology.
I should note for the record that I do not like coffee. At all. But I do like the insane designs that the world's "baristas" make with said coffee. For instance, the universe in a cup or this super bad-ass dragon. This has nothing to do with science really (well, it does, but only in the way that all everyday things somehow have something to do with science), but I wanted to share.
You should know that this is how everything goes to hell during a zombie apocalypse. This is only marginally science-related, in that it shows us how science will be the doom of us aaaaaalllll.