Science 'n Shtein

Started by hbionic, August 23, 2011, 02:37:52 PM

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Rome

Gay marriage on Mars.  LET'S DO THIS!

ice grillin you

i can take a phrase thats rarely heard...flip it....now its a daily word

igy gettin it done like warrick

im the board pharmacist....always one step above yous

General_Failure

Quote from: Rome on July 15, 2015, 07:46:37 PM
Gay marriage on Mars.  LET'S DO THIS!

I'm pretty sure Mars already has marriage equality for robosexuals.

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rjs246

Is rjs gonna have to choke a bitch?

Let them eat bootstraps.

General_Failure

HIV vaccine to be tested on people

QuoteAfter years of research, a promising HIV/AIDS vaccine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine is moving into the critical human testing stage.

The school's Institute of Human Virology, headed by Dr. Robert Gallo, who helped discover the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS and who developed the HIV blood test, announced the next big step in the research Thursday.

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General_Failure

Ultrasound therapies target brain cancers and Alzheimer's disease

QuoteThis month, in one of the first clinical tests, Todd Mainprize, a neurosurgeon at the University of Toronto in Canada, hopes to use ultrasound to deliver a dose of chemotherapy to a malignant brain tumor. And in some of the most dramatic evidence of the technique's potential, a research team reports this week in Science Translational Medicine that they used it to rid mice of abnormal brain clumps similar to those in Alzheimer's disease, restoring lost memory and cognitive functions. If such findings can be translated from mice to humans, "it will revolutionize the way we treat brain disease," says biophysicist Kullervo Hynynen of the Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto, who originated the ultrasound method.

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General_Failure

NASA just saw something come out of a black hole for the first time ever

QuoteYou don't have to know a whole lot about science to know that black holes typically suck things in, not spew things out. But NASA just spotted something mighty strange at the supermassive black hole Markarian 335.

Two of NASA's space telescopes, including the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), miraculously observed a black hole's corona "launched" away from the supermassive black hole. Then a massive pulse of X-ray energy spewed out. So, what exactly happened? That's what scientists are trying to figure out now.

"This is the first time we have been able to link the launching of the corona to a flare," Dan Wilkins, of Saint Mary's University, said. "This will help us understand how supermassive black holes power some of the brightest objects in the universe."

NuSTAR's principal investigator, Fiona Harrison, noted that the nature of the energetic source is "mysterious," but added that the ability to actually record the event should provide some clues about the black hole's size and structure, along with (hopefully) some fresh intel on how black holes function. Luckily for us, this black hole is still 324 million light-years away.

So, no matter what strange things it's doing, it shouldn't have any effect on our corner of the universe.

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Seabiscuit36

And then they see this off the coast of California

https://youtu.be/69Ij5ad4gFk

Navy says its a missile test. 
"For all the civic slurs, for all the unsavory things said of the Philadelphia fans, also say this: They could teach loyalty to a dog. Their capacity for pain is without limit." -Bill Lyons

Sgt PSN

There's shtein going around FB now with people claiming that there's a bunch of dead aliens all around San Jose. Lol.

PhillyPhreak54

That would be cool

Probably meaning illegal aliens?

Sgt PSN


PhillyPhreak54

No clue wtf that thing is

But Aurelia has one nice rack on her


Diomedes

I have to admit that my mind is bent.  Not as much as my cork, but my cork saw that video before and took it really hard.
There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists." - Yosemite Park Ranger

General_Failure

Germany Just Successfully Fired Up A Nuclear Fusion Reactor

QuoteControlled nuclear fusion – a clean, near-perpetual source of energy – would revolutionize the world. In recent years, significant steps on the path to a fully operational, efficient fusion reactor have been made, and this week another milestone has been reached: German engineers from the Max Planck Institute have successfully fired up their nuclear fusion reactor, announcing that they have managed to suspend plasma for the first time.

Their 16-meter-long (52-foot-long) experimental fusion reactor, Wendelstein 7-X (W7X), is one of the largest in the world. It took 19 years and €1 billion ($1.1 billion/£715 million) to complete, and contains over 425 tonnes (470 tons) of superconducting magnets, all of which need to be cooled to absolute zero. Within it, the process that operates at the heart of stars can hypothetically take place.

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