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1. https://www.sciencealert.com/a-new-non-surgical-procedure-provides-lasting-relief-for-knee-pain
2. https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-just-set-a-new-world-record-for-superconductors
3. https://www.sciencealert.com/two-people-with-severe-autoimmune-disease-are-in-remission-after-stem-cell-transplant
4. https://www.sciencealert.com/an-unknown-chemical-signature-has-been-detected-on-pluto-and-titan
5. https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-simulated-a-black-hole-in-a-lab-then-it-started-to-evaporate
6. https://www.sciencealert.com/fasting-style-diet-reduces-gum-inflammation-in-6-month-trial
CALAMOSCOPYJANE
I do a lot of real water fasting, and I had an issue with my gums that disappeared after a 7-day fast. Hasn’t returned.
themagnificentpearl
#6 used a banana for scale lol
Isthe4thtimethecharm
These were always one of my favorite things about imgur of yesteryear. I would put them up there with a newbadlyphotoshoppedMichealCera posts.
VodkaReindeer
#1 we got injectable placebo for arthritis already
LunarEntropy
I always love these, thanks for posting.
slack3rdav3
#4 the axis choice on their x graphs annoy the shit out of me. Make them the same for comparison... or put bar markers that indicate the start and stop of the dip.
Subtilico
#2 "One of the best-known examples of a metastable material might be on your hand right now." <- read that while holding a Popsicle.
tidepool
Dang I hope that first one can help my disc degeneration in my back. This shit is painful
Stefnos87
Thank you for these lovely posts.
relsky
Well now, #1 is extremely interesting to me...
relsky
Holy shit that's amazing
SleazyBijou
Microspheres… microplastics…
turkizno
Calory-counting was the only diet that worked for me. too "restaurant-greasy", or too much calories - including nuts in this case, just kept my fat going even if it was a healthy food.
I lost weight too fast so I had to get my gallbladder removed, but even after surgery, the doc's Liver Shrinkage Diet is what actually helped in the long term too
drduffer
#3 Have you tried turning it off and then back on again?
L0rdinquisit0r
#2 whoever makes room temp superconductors changes the world, so much power saved. hopefully that are not ran by a bunch of counters who fuck the licencing up and screw the world over for a buck.
Tjitso
elon musk will probably buy the company and claim he invented it
duktayp
100++ years from now, the term "black hole" as a description ... will be as archaic as "Horseless Carriage" to describe a car
davesaint01930
You think we'll be around in a hundred years? Thats wildly optimistic.
TheBlueMuppet
Did you hear that they built another Blole factory down the road? Crazy.
NaughtButOne
...? No?
It's a black hole. We'll never understand it. It will always be a black hole. We already have terms like 'singularity' vs. 'event horizon' to describe the constituent parts as we understand them, but the object as a ... whole, will always be a void in our understanding, just like there are things beyond the cosmic horizon we'll never know.
Subtilico
Or atom for an indivisible particle.
cousteau
"They're called atoms because they cannot be further divided without changing their properties" is an excuse I've heard. (Dudes, just admit you messed up the name…)
Neurisko
Yeah maybe then people wouldn't get the stupid idea they're wormholes to other universes. Just off the cuff, "Dark Sun" makes more sense, but I'm sure there are better terms.
ThisNameIsMaybeTaken
I dunno, when folks with PhDs talk about it and explain how the mathematics describing black holes say that black holes can lead to other universes, I'll believe that over a skeptic on the Internet.
Neurisko
Reference?
NarratesTheDarkerStory
Dark Star is an old term for black hole that makes more sense than Black Hole. I remember googling that when I was searching for a name for my scifi ttrpg homebrew. Collapsar is another, but that could only work for stellar mass BH's, I think, I'm no expert. just thumbs with the internet
Mxlespxles
Fermion Stars would sound cool
cousteau
It's a "hole" in that it sort of "breaks" the space-time continuum. It doesn't lead anywhere though. Maybe "black sink" would be a better term.
cousteau
#2 Oh, -122°C? That's not that low, actually! Seems kinda easy to achieve. I thought these were normally in the -200s.
cousteau
Kinda annoyed that the article keeps talking about "-xxx.15°C" though. They're clearly converting round numbers from kelvin and making up the extra precision.
SirButcher
Yeah, that is in liquid nitrogen temperatures!
Which is great, because our helium supplies are in huge danger, so we need a new useable superconductor ASAP...
cousteau
Also, it's -122 *at atmospheric pressure*. Important note because there are plenty of superconductors that need relatively mild temperatures but the catch is that they need the pressure in the center of the Sun to work (OK maybe not that much, but still)
SirButcher
The real catch is that many superconductors that we know can't be used because they can't be made in shapes to make them useful. There are already multiple high-temp (as in, sub -200C) superconductors, but they are often either extremely brittle, or can only be created as thin disks or ingots and can't be shaped at all. Which kinda ruins their industrial usefulness.
L0rdinquisit0r
pressure in the center of the Sun is 3.74 tillion* psi while most superconductors are in only in the 14 million to 700 million psi range. see its totally doable...
SnakuPlisskin
The article makes it sound like this is the first time but I thought one had been discovered some time in the last few years already and it is already leading to Commonwealth Fusion Services believing they'll be able to produce net gain energy from fusion.
SnakuPlisskin
Ok, so digging a little deeper, it seems that the other ones still required colder temperatures while this new one is several degrees above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen. Still very cold but a whole lot warmer than others. Also it looks like heating it up (I article I found didn't say how warm) would cause it to anneal and lose its metastable properties and turn back into the version that needs high pressure. Fascinating stuff
cousteau
…in as soon as 30 years?
SnakuPlisskin
Heh. I mean that's always the joke but they're expecting to be generating power on the grid within about five years or so. We'll see how it goes, of course but they're planning on first plasma later this year