Cool Science Stuff

[Surf Monkey]

I'll start.

First a kind of funny one. This one's about people who post/like those pseudo-deep memes on Facebook:

People who like “pseudo-profound” quotes are not so smart, says science

And here's a cool one. This is about the microscopic animals called tardigrades. Unlike many creatures, they derived about 1/6th of their dna from infecting bacteria and other foreign sources. Super weird. But weirder still, this opportunistic mix was attributed with the animal's practically invincible nature... until now:

Rival Scientists Cast Doubt Upon Recent Discovery About Invincible Animals

 

[justincase]

This is a couple months old story, but I found it rather intriguing nonetheless.....

If you are a young plant hopper, leaping one metre in a single bound, you need to push off with both hind legs in perfect unison or you might end up in a spin. Researchers have discovered that this synchrony is made possible by toothed gears that connect the two legs when the insects jump.

Insect leg cogs a first in animal kingdom

 

[Surf Monkey]

Interesting!

 

[Katmar]

Beams would like this one, but it's interesting, nonetheless:

Scientists accidentally extend young adulthood in worms using drug

 

[justincase]

This research could help A LOT of folks...

Type 2 diabetes is caused by fat accumulating in the pancreas – and that losing less than one gram of fat through weight loss reverses the diabetes, researchers have shown.

Type 2 diabetes reversed by losing fat from pancreas

 

[Katmar]

This research could help A LOT of folks...



Type 2 diabetes reversed by losing fat from pancreas

I've known several people who lost weight and were able to get off their meds and were no longer diabetic. If only more people would do this.

 

[justincase]

Well, its not a person, but I was able to 'reverse' (?) my cat's diabetes just from changing her diet.
Went from 9u of insulin BID to ZERO insulin injections!
People, I think, have a harder time because of what is so available to us, and eating a *proper* diet can be expensive or to labor intensive to produce on our own. (In other words, we're to lazy! [emoji23] )

 

[DaveP]

New Method for Discovering Superconductors with High Superconducting Critical Temperature

New Method for Discovering Superconductors with High Superconducting Critical Temperature
Published on April 20, 2015 at 12:17 PM
Professor Kosmas Prassides of Tohoku University, has led an international team of researchers who have discovered a new state of matter called as the Jahn-Teller metal. In this state, localized electrons on the fullerene molecules demonstrate co-existence with metallicity.

Image Credit: Prassides Kosmas
Among molecular superconductors, fullerenes are considered to have the highest known superconducting critical temperature (Tc). The international research team studied the electronic properties of fullerene-based family of unconventional superconductors.

They successfully demonstrated the molecular electronic structure’s guiding influence for controlling superconductivity and also in helping achieve the maximum Tc. This discovery opens a new pathway for discovering high Tc superconductors.

Metals are commonly used for transmission of electricity. However, as they have electrical resistance, energy loss takes place in the form of heat. Superconductors have the ability to carry electricity without any loss of energy as they do not have any electrical resistance. Hence, it would be very fruitful to discover superconductors that have the ability to function at the highest possible temperature.

 

[Moonlit knight]

 

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[Moonlit knight]

Project Loon is set to circle the planet with Internet balloons in 2016

Google’s Project Loon is a massively ambitious plan to provide Internet connectivity to areas of the planet that don’t already enjoy good access to the web. How? Via a huge fleet of helium balloons that hang in the stratosphere 20 kilometres above the surface, assembling to form a high-tech communication network that beams the web to the surface.
And the undertaking is only getting more ambitious, with the company announcing this week that it plans to circle the planet with a ring of Project Loon balloons that will provide a perpetual data service for those living underneath its path.
It sounds like science fiction, but this isn’t some faraway ethereal concept we’re talking about. Google says it will do this next year, provided current tests work out as planned.
“[We need] about 300 balloons or so to make a continuous string around the world,” Mike Cassidy, vice-president of Project Loon, told the BBC. “As one moves along with the wind out of range, another one comes to take its place. We hope next year to build our first continuous ring around the world, and to have some sort of continuous coverage for certain regions.”

 

[Moonlit knight]

One of the happiest days of the year today Dec. 8

The earliest sunset for 40 degrees N. latitude is on December 8, and the year’s earliest sunset comes around then for everyone near this latitude. The exact date of the Northern Hemisphere’s earliest sunset or the Southern Hemisphere’s earliest sunrise varies by latitude. But, at temperate latitudes, both of these annual hallmarks in our sky come some weeks before the December solstice, not on the solstice as you might expect.

N. Hemisphere? Watch for earliest sunsets | EarthSky.org

 

[Surf Monkey]

Good stuffs! Keep 'em coming!

 

[Moonlit knight]

What's Really Warming the World?

 

[Surf Monkey]

So, Loungers? No interest in science?

Weird.

 

[Moonlit knight]

 

[Nermal]

Beams would like this one, but it's interesting, nonetheless:

Scientists accidentally extend young adulthood in worms using drug

Interesting, but personally it sounds a little counterproductive.

 

[Bovinia]

This sounds promising

Playful pups conceived via in vitro fertilization for the first time

 

[Katmar]

This sounds promising

Playful pups conceived via in vitro fertilization for the first time

And they're so cute, too!!!

 

[justincase]

The brains of men and women aren’t really that different, study finds

http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-be...nd-women-aren-t-really-different-study-finds?