Science! (7 Viewers)

[Optimus Prime]

Do not, and I can not stress this enough, do a Google image search for this.

did you already know not to do this or did you just do it and are now warning us?

 

[xpuma20x]

did you already know not to do this or did you just do it and are now warning us?

I was bored at work..Just sayin

 

[zeetes]

So, who was the first person to do this, and how was it discovered??

i hope the experiment paid well because i'd rather just be blind.

 

[Optimus Prime]

So, who was the first person to do this, and how was it discovered??

I was wondering that myself

Do not, and I can not stress this enough, do a Google image search for this.

Curiosity got the best of me and I checked

Yeah, you were right

 

[bonnjer]

Cancer can be precisely diagnosed using a urine test with artificial intelligence

The Korea Institute of Science and Technology(KIST) announced that the collaborative research team led by Dr. Kwan Hyi Lee from the Biomaterials Research Center and Professor In Gab Jeong from Asan Medical Center developed a technique for diagnosing prostate cancer from urine within only twenty...

www.eurekalert.org

 

[Optimus Prime]

Two hundred light years away sits a planetary system unlike any other yet discovered. It contains at least six worlds, five of which are locked together in a particular type of gravitational tango. More bizarrely, the planets have arranged themselves with complete disregard for the standard layout that most solar systems tend to follow. The band of misfits, dubbed TOI-178, challenges planetary scientists to refine their theories of how solar systems settle down.

“It’s a milestone system,” says Nathan Hara, an astronomer from the University de Geneva, Switzerland, one of the astronomers who identified the exoplanets. “It’s something that will be studied in the future.” ...............

These 6 exoplanets somehow orbit their star in perfect rhythm (msn.com)

 

[Booker]

Thread...

 

[Tapxe]

 

[Tapxe]

 

[Optimus Prime]

This seems like it should be native to Australia
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The manchineel tree may be endangered, but so is anyone who messes with it. That's because this rare tropical plant, which offers deceptively sweet fruit, is one of the most poisonous trees on Earth.

Manchineels are notorious in their native habitats, the sandy soils and mangroves of South Florida, the Caribbean, Central America and northern South America. Many are labeled with warning signs like the one pictured below. But aside from poisoning the occasional conquistador, tourist and literary character, manchineel is relatively obscure considering it holds the world record for most dangerous tree.

The fruits are the most obvious threat, earning manchineel the name manzanita de la muerte, or "little apple of death," from Spanish conquistadors. Resembling a small green crabapple about 1 to 2 inches wide, the sweet-smelling fruits can cause hours of agony — and potentially death — with a single bite.

"I rashly took a bite from this fruit and found it pleasantly sweet," radiologist Nicola Strickland wrote in a 2000 British Medical Journal article about eating manchineel with a friend. "Moments later we noticed a strange peppery feeling in our mouths, which gradually progressed to a burning, tearing sensation and tightness of the throat. The symptoms worsened over a couple of hours until we could barely swallow solid food because of the excruciating pain and the feeling of a huge obstructing pharyngeal lump."

Poison apples are just the beginning, though. Every part of a manchineel is toxic, and according to the Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), "interaction with and ingestion of any part of this tree may be lethal." That includes bark, leaves and the milky sap, one drop of which can scorch the skin of shade-seeking beach-goers. Even without touching the tree itself, people (and car paint) have been burned by the thick, caustic sap as rain washes it off branches overhead.................

Why Manchineel Might Be Earth's Most Dangerous Tree (treehugger.com)

 

[zeetes]

um i'll definitely be watching this later.

 

[Booker]

 

[Tapxe]

 

[Optimus Prime]

Not exactly science but pretty neat factoid
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On Oct. 31, 2000, the universe changed. At 10:53 a.m. local time, a Soyuz spacecraft lifted off on a tail of fire and smoke from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Onboard were three travellers: NASA astronaut William Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev, headed to the then-unoccupied International Space Station, or ISS.

Before liftoff, the skies above them were empty. There was no one in space. Sure, humans had been there and returned – in fact, the space shuttle Discovery had just landed 10 days earlier. A few years before, there had briefly been a record 13 people in orbit at one time. But on that day, every human being on Earth was just that – on the Earth.

But since then, the ISS has been a constant home to a rotating series of crew members and visitors, 240 in total. For 20 years as of this Halloween, humanity has had a toehold in the cosmos. Just as anyone under 50 has never known a moon without footprints, so anyone in their teens or younger has lived their entire lives — the whole of the 21st century to date — in a time when Earth is not our only home............

Humans have been living in space for 20 years: Canadian astronauts on the ISS and beyond

Canadian astronauts Chris Hadfield and David Saint-Jacques, part of that unbroken chain, reflect on the meaning of space flight, and its future

nationalpost.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

so maybe our apocalyptic future isn’t Skynet maybe it’s the Day of the Triffids
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It may sound like something out of a futuristic science fiction film, but scientists have managed to engineer spinach plants which are capable of sending emails.

Through nanotechnology, engineers at MIT in the US have transformed spinach into sensors capable of detecting explosive materials. These plants are then able to wirelessly relay this information back to the scientists.

When the spinach roots detect the presence of nitroaromatics in groundwater, a compound often found in explosives like landmines, the carbon nanotubes within the plant leaves emit a signal. This signal is then read by an infrared camera, sending an email alert to the scientists.

This experiment is part of a wider field of research which involves engineering electronic components and systems into plants. The technology is known as “plant nanobionics”, and is effectively the process of giving plants new abilities.

“Plants are very good analytical chemists,” explains Professor Michael Strano who led the research. “They have an extensive root network in the soil, are constantly sampling groundwater, and have a way to self-power the transport of that water up into the leaves.”

“This is a novel demonstration of how we have overcome the plant/human communication barrier,” he adds.........

Scientists have taught spinach to send emails

It sounds too weird to be true, but engineers at MIT have developed nanotechnology which can be embedded in plants.

www.euronews.com