Official "Science News" Thread

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Originally Posted by LaurV

Wow, new jobs for dr. ciomu !... (google it)

I think your avatar describes my reaction perfectly ;)

[rogue]

There goes the night

New technology is forcing us to confront the ethics of bringing people back from the dead

Overcoming bias about music takes work

Is the VR Universe in Ready Player One Possible?

Drones will soon decide who to kill

Brain processes sight and sound in same manner

This company wants to replace braille with a controversial new font

Why symmetry gets really interesting when it is broken

How to bend and stretch a diamond

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by kladner

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8318981.html

I guess this would also make some folks go "Hmmm....."

That lends new meaning to the medical issue of "being worried about rejection" - "but snoogums, Dr. Langenharder assured me it's now part of me, not some, um, stiff..."

[science_man_88]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

That lends new meaning to the medical issue of "being worried about rejection" - "but snoogums, Dr. Langenharder assured me it's now part of me, not some, um, stiff..."

I might personally be scared of parasympathetic sympathetic imbalance in the nervous system, or a change in hormones causing a lack of testosterone levels to be meaningful, but I also get the ethical dilemma of paternal testing.

[GP2]

An article from January in Nature Electronics: The future of electronics based on memristive systems

In the (far?) future, memristor-based electronics will provide on-chip memory that will end the memory bottleneck.

I guess we can dream.

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by science_man_88

I might personally be scared of parasympathetic sympathetic imbalance in the nervous system, or a change in hormones causing a lack of testosterone levels to be meaningful, but I also get the ethical dilemma of paternal testing.

The latter is not an issue, as the testes are not (currently) part of the transplant technology. Perhaps it's related to the fact that a significant fraction of people are allergic to nuts?

[kladner]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

The latter is not an issue, as the testes are not (currently) part of the transplant technology. Perhaps it's related to the fact that a significant fraction of people are allergic to nuts?

SNORT!

[xilman]

Originally Posted by rogue

There goes the night

There's a beautiful irony in that article. Although the piece is primarily about ecology, it does mention the problem of light pollution for astronomers. The irony: satellites are monitoring ground-based pollution but they are also a significant pollutant in their own right. Many an image has been spoiled or ruined by an inopportune satellite reflecting sunlight into the telescope. Plans for swarms of hundreds or thousands of tiny comsats designed to provide internet and mobile phone connectivity worldwide are a real concern.

[ewmayer]

This Fungus Borrowed From Ancient Bacteria to Defy Gravity - The New York Times

Oklahoma High School Student Discovers That Carbon Can Form 7 Bonds | Inverse

[Maybe we should allow for future increases in possible bond number by exanding the number of digits in the field, e.g. "007 Bonds".]

[rogue]

If you grow a brain in a lab, will it have a mind of its own?

Hotsy, a Narrative History

Why Some Sports Fans Have More Fun

The resume of the future will tell employers who you are, and not just what you’ve done

(Im)mortality: Researchers Find That Human Lifespan Has A Max Limit

A Revealer of Secrets in the Data of Life and the Universe

If we weren’t the first industrial civilization on Earth, would we ever know?

The body electric

Making ideas into reality at MIT's 'Future Factory'

[kladner]

Originally Posted by rogue

If you grow a brain in a lab, will it have a mind of its own?

Hotsy, a Narrative History

Why Some Sports Fans Have More Fun

The resume of the future will tell employers who you are, and not just what you’ve done

(Im)mortality: Researchers Find That Human Lifespan Has A Max Limit

A Revealer of Secrets in the Data of Life and the Universe

If we weren’t the first industrial civilization on Earth, would we ever know?

The body electric

Making ideas into reality at MIT's 'Future Factory'

The Body Electric and the mortality articles are both great. I love the idea of a pacemaker that is powered by the heartbeat.