This week in science

For you, porchrat:

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What exactly do you think scientists do OrbitalDawn?

Sure, I've never met someone that enjoys the tedious result generating parts. However once those results are generated and you see the pattern in that data, that is a wonderful feeling.

That isn't the same thing as looking at a picture and going "oooooooh pretty" with little to no understanding of the implications of that image. That isn't what scientists do.
 
Ok so nobody cares who effing loves science or not, so can we get back to the topic? :p
 
OrbitalDawn said:
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I just thought you'd enjoy the picture...

To your question, though...
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Sorry. Day was an annoying one. Chilled now. My bad entirely.

The picture is a funny one. It reminds me of chemistry practicals actually. I imagine we all looked just like that little guy with our goggles and labcoats, mixing beakers filled with chemicals all the while with this bewildered look on our collective faces. :p.
 
SaiyanZ said:
This is quite a discovery. So if they find a way to preserve our brain when we die, in a hundred years or so we could live again in a synthetic body.
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We realized that there was cerebral activity, unknown until now, in the patient's brain," says Dr. Florin Amzica, director of the study and professor at the University of Montreal's School of Dentistry.
Dr. Amzica's team then decided to recreate the patient's state in cats, the standard animal model for neurological studies.
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Why are dentists studying comas. And why cats?
 
The week isn't over yet...

Researchers Demonstrate 'Accelerator on a Chip'

Technology could spawn new generations of smaller, less expensive devices for science, medicine

September 27, 2013
Menlo Park, Calif. — In an advance that could dramatically shrink particle accelerators for science and medicine, researchers used a laser to accelerate electrons at a rate 10 times higher than conventional technology in a nanostructured glass chip smaller than a grain of rice.

The achievement was reported today in Nature by a team including scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University.

“We still have a number of challenges before this technology becomes practical for real-world use, but eventually it would substantially reduce the size and cost of future high-energy particle colliders for exploring the world of fundamental particles and forces,” said Joel England, the SLAC physicist who led the experiments. “It could also help enable compact accelerators and X-ray devices for security scanning, medical therapy and imaging, and research in biology and materials science.”

Because it employs commercial lasers and low-cost, mass-production techniques, the researchers believe it will set the stage for new generations of "tabletop" accelerators.

At its full potential, the new “accelerator on a chip” could match the accelerating power of SLAC’s 2-mile-long linear accelerator in just 100 feet, and deliver a million more electron pulses per second.

This initial demonstration achieved an acceleration gradient, or amount of energy gained per length, of 300 million electronvolts per meter. That's roughly 10 times the acceleration provided by the current SLAC linear accelerator.

“Our ultimate goal for this structure is 1 billion electronvolts per meter, and we’re already one-third of the way in our first experiment,” said Stanford Professor Robert Byer, the principal investigator for this research.
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