Cool Science thread

[PNWbrit]

Toaster-sized neutrino detector, and it works
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-world-...r-elusive.html

I'm waiting until they make one dishwasher sized.

[Dantheman]

Milky Way has 100 million black holes
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/0...ur-galaxy.html

Immunotherapy shows promise for Type 1 diabetes when diagnosed early
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-40876438

[Dantheman]

Encoding malware in DNA
https://www.wired.com/story/malware-dna-hack/

Diesel cars are definitely dead now
https://www.wired.com/story/mazda-in...activx-engine/

[wooley12]

Natural science. Something to run on it's own screen while you surf. Or work. The salmon were running strong when I posted this.

[grskier]

This could be promising... I hope so.

https://www.wired.com/story/bill-joy...mbid=synd_digg

[Mazderati]

^ A game changer if it pans out but as the article points out, who knows if that is really the case.

[k2skier112]

Super massive Black Holes eat dark matter

https://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-sh...e-supermassive

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/n...med-so-quickly

[Dantheman]

We do seem to be getting very close to the promised land of viable solid-state batteries. There was another reported "breakthrough" earlier this year that I'm pretty sure was discussed in this thread:

https://news.utexas.edu/2017/02/28/g...ery-technology
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesco.../#fe57ee14e629

[Dantheman]

Super massive Black Holes eat dark matter

https://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-sh...e-supermassive

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/n...med-so-quickly

Rad.

[PB]

Oh for poop sake .... the "jesus" battery?!?! Son of the God Particle??

[Dantheman]

Bacteria engineered to produce inorganic semiconductors vastly outperform plants converting solar energy
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-cyborg...compounds.html

[Harry]

Multiple dwarf planets beyond Neptune have rings.

http://www.latimes.com/science/scien...htmlstory.html

[FLS]

Magic mushrooms 'reboot' brain in depressed people – study

https://www.theguardian.com/science/...d-people-study

Magic mushrooms may effectively “reset” the activity of key brain circuits known to play a role in depression, the latest study to highlight the therapeutic benefits of psychadelics suggests.
Psychadelics have shown promising results in the treatment of depression and addictions in a number of clinical trials over the last decade. Imperial College London researchers used psilocybin – the psychoactive compound that occurs naturally in magic mushrooms – to treat a small number of patients with depression, monitoring their brain function, before and after.
Images of patients’ brains revealed changes in brain activity that were associated with marked and lasting reductions in depressive symptoms and participants in the trial reported benefits lasting up to five weeks after treatment.



Dr Robin Carhart-Harris, head of psychedelic research at Imperial, who led the study, said: “We have shown for the first time clear changes in brain activity in depressed people treated with psilocybin after failing to respond to conventional treatments.
“Several of our patients described feeling ‘reset’ after the treatment and often used computer analogies. For example, one said he felt like his brain had been ‘defragged’ like a computer hard drive, and another said he felt ‘rebooted’.

[sb]

http://78.media.tumblr.com/fcf55c459...mn3o1_1280.gif

[Dantheman]

Missing baryons found: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/...-missing-atoms

[From_the_NEK]

Cool astronomy...
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...-neutron-stars

[Dantheman]

Intermittent fasting promotes conversion of white fat to brown fat and boosts thermogenesis
https://www.nature.com/cr/journal/va...r2017126a.html

[Dantheman]

Engineered protein causes obese mice, rats, and macaque monkeys to consume less food and lose weight, as well as lower cholesterol and insulin levels in the blood.
https://www.seeker.com/health/biotec...ls-shed-weight

[Mazderati]

Not new but cool nonetheless. Dinosaur mummy. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/w...oil-sands.html

[Norseman]

Cosmic rays reveal mysterious void in Egypt’s Great Pyramid

[Dantheman]

Mars RSLs are probably not water
http://www.popularmechanics.com/spac...and-not-water/

[deepsouthmafia]

You guys hip to Oumuamua?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017...p-to-oumuamua/

[Dantheman]

CRISPR successfully used to modify gene expression in mice without making edits to the DNA itself
http://beta.latimes.com/science/scie...207-story.html

[Viva]

Spermatozoa- the new manual laborers in novel cancer-treatment paradigms(notice I didn't call 'em Micro-Mexicans!).

https://www.newscientist.com/article...-cancer-cells/

[PB]

Four-armed magnetic harness for each individual sperm???? That's more impressive than the cancer therapy!