TSRI Scientists Create First Stable Semisynthetic Organism

Stuff like this scares me a little, but it's still exciting.

Neat! It would be interesting to see what would happen after a couple hundred generations with a stable base pair!

Yup... my Remote Sensing/Spatial Statistics professor is urging us to get a head start on our final project data collection because a large portion of what I'm doing relies on data from the USGS site as well as NOAA. We'll see...

oceanography?

Environmental Science but im doubling up on geospatial technology.

Great thread. Science-wise, I'm particularly interested in CRISPR and how it will continue to evolve as different human trials launch and start producing results.

CRISPR

That's amazing, and definitely something to keep an eye on.


Researchers Are Planning To Shoot Mysterious Subatomic Particles Through The Earth

**** that clickbaity video title though.

I know.. I'm still looking for follow up info to see if anything came from it.

Crispr has already done a lot of neat stuff in the lab for research.

Extremophile news always catches my attention. It fascinates me to see what life is capable of.

Naica's crystal caves hold long-dormant life - BBC News

Reminds me of "At the Mountains of Madness" by H. P. Lovecraft

If you've been rocking yourself into deafness

Regenerating hair cells after hearing loss - Business Insider

long way off though

if it even pans out

I thought it was some kind of research about deaf people and baldness from the headline.

Pretty good introduction to quantum fields. I suppose people interested in the matter will already know most of ths, but it's an interesting and easy to follow overview.

Q&A is well woth a watch as well.
Seeing those kids being interested in that stuff really gives one hope for humanity. A bit.

Nice. Will watch later.

This thread should have a theme song.

Pretty interesting perspective on split brains.

Coooool. That pretty much suggests (I don't suppose it's concrete enough to be truly compelling evidence of anything solid concerning consciousness) what so many think, that consciousness is an emergent phenomenon that's countless processes merging together to create an illusion of personhood so strong that the person can't even tell.

Cool channel. I just watched like 4 of their vids.

@Xurtio, nice throwback.

I read Physics of the Impossible a few years ago. Fun read. Real easy to follow.

Michio Kaku is fun and entertaining, and he talks about science, but what he does as far as public platform is concerned is often more speculation than actual science. Sometimes, totally preposterous sensational speculation.

Such as?

He pulls **** out of his ass like the multiverse theory

He's fun but there's so little evidence for some of those theories it might as well be Scientology.

I assumed his confidence in the multiverse theory was a product of being visited by an interdimensional traveler.

Am I the only one who rolls my eyes whenever the multiverse is referred to as a "theory"? Theories, by definition, must have experimental support. Even calling it a hypothesis is generous. It's about as experimentally verifiable as God.

Just pass the joint man.

You're right.

So is Frowny.

So was I when I mentioned Scientology.

rick and morty made me think the multiverse theory was true

yes i get my science from television cartoons now **** off

Just apply that to a single, infinite universe and you'll be more on track.

I couldn't give any examples any more. I've dumped my mind of that garbage. But I fondly remember rolling my eyes and sighing at a lot of things he said over the course of my physics education.

Good explanation of Hawking radiation.
Sixty Symbols is being one of my favourite science channels lately.

Mmm... lesbians.