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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

I don't think we have one on this board yet. Here's a place for all those sciency things.

Starting things off, trapping antihydrogen:

paper:
http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphys2025.html

short (newsy) overview:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=13766460
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

I think it's an old story, though this is the first I've seen it...carnivorous robots...yay one more step closer to cylons:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/03/28/time-eats-flies-clock-powers-itself-by-catching-eating-bugs/
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, isn't 'Eureka!' but rather 'hmm....that's funny.'

--Isaac Asimov

Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

Using fonts to help people with dyslexia:
http://gizmodo.com/5818440/a-typeface-for-dyslexic-readers

The video cites a study that was done, here is a link to the MS thesis that contains that study:
http://essay.utwente.nl/60064/

I don't think the results are nearly as promising as one might claim. Looking at the numbers they really didn't use that many ppl in the study, and there is little to no improvement using the font vs. arial.....

But it's something I though was interesting
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, isn't 'Eureka!' but rather 'hmm....that's funny.'

--Isaac Asimov

Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

New ways to play rock,paper,scissors

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20714-close-your-eyes-to-win-at-rock-paper-scissors.html
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, isn't 'Eureka!' but rather 'hmm....that's funny.'

--Isaac Asimov

Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/09/neutrinos-travel-faster-than-lig.html
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Jastermereel · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 2:57 pm Post subject:

Looks like we dodged a bullet...a long time ago:
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27264/
"Billion Tonne Comet May Have Missed Earth By A Few Hundred Kilometres in 1883"
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

Some explanations for the nutrinos

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/mundane-explanations-neutrinos/
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, isn't 'Eureka!' but rather 'hmm....that's funny.'

--Isaac Asimov

Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

Pink doesn't exist:
http://gizmodo.com/5850825/theres-no-such-thing-as-pink
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Jastermereel · Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 6:32 pm Post subject:

New Family of Spiders Discovered
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/conservation/new-family-of-spiders-found-in-us-cave-20120818-24fan.html
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Jastermereel · Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 7:01 pm Post subject:

Oops, wrong thread...so...instead...erm...isn't this neat!?
The Blue Sea Slug - Glaucus Atlanticus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaucus_atlanticus
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fate · Uber-Karma Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1178

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670753/this-9-cardboard-bike-can-support-riders-up-to-485lbs
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Jastermereel · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:34 pm Post subject:

http://www.gereports.com/post/91250246340/lettuce-see-the-future-japanese-farmer-builds

A Japanese lettuce farm, takes up half a football field of space, and produces 10,000 heads of lettuce a day. Lighting is done through LEDs in a strictly controlled day/night cycle and very little water (1% of that required for normal farming). Given where it's located, I think we're looking at nuclear lettuce here.
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