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A University of Zagreb virologist treated her own recurring breast cancer by injecting laboratory-grown viruses into her tumor, sparking debate about self-experimentation in medical research. Beata Halassy discovered her stage 3 breast cancer in 2020 a… Continue reading Self-Experimenting Virologist Defeats Breast Cancer With Lab-Grown Virus Treatment
The James Webb Space Telescope’s array of eighteen hexagonal mirrors went through an intricate (and lengthy) alignment and calibration process before it could begin its mission — but the process …read more Continue reading The Constant Monitoring and Work That Goes into JWST’s Optics
Slashdot reader sciencehabit shared this report from Science magazine: Elephants love showering to cool off, and most do so by sucking water into their trunks and spitting it over their bodies. But an elderly pachyderm named Mary has perfected the tech… Continue reading This Elephant Learned To Use a Hose As a Shower. Then Her Rival Sought Revenge
A characteristic of any thermal power plant — whether using coal, gas or spicy nuclear rocks — is that they have a closed steam loop with a condenser section in …read more Continue reading Exploring the Physics Behind Cooling Towers
Generally when assuming a chaotic (i.e. random) system like an undirected graph, we assume that if we start coloring these (i.e. assign values) with two colors no real pattern emerges. …read more Continue reading Ramsey Numbers and the Appearance of Order in Random Numbers
Picture in your mind a big parking lot with 131 million cars on it. Now imagine that they are spread out over the entire Earth’s inhabited areas. Although still a …read more Continue reading Flirting With Kessler: why Space Debris Physics Make it Such an Orbital Pain
Long-time Slashdot reader yet-another-lobbyist writes: Phys.org has an article on the recent discovery of super stretchy nanofibers in natural spider silk! The thinnest natural spider silk nanofibrils ever seen are only a few molecular layers thin, abo… Continue reading Invisible, Super Stretchy Nanofibers Discovered In Natural Spider Silk
Electrostatic motors are now common in MEMS applications, but researchers at the University of Wisconsin and spinoff C-Motive Technologies have brought macroscale electrostatic motors back. [via MSN/WSJ] While the first …read more Continue reading Electrostatic Motors are Making a Comeback
In 2020 international shipping saw itself faced with new fuel regulations for cargo ships pertaining to low sulfur fuels (IMO2020). This reduced the emission of sulfur dioxide aerosols from these …read more Continue reading How Pollution Controls for Cargo Ships Made Global Warming Worse
Whilst microwave plasmas are nothing new around here, we were curious to see what happens at 20x the power, and since YouTuber [Styropyro] had put out a new video, we …read more Continue reading ‘Upgrading’ a Microwave Oven To 20 kW