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- utopian1
Science ranks grow thin in Trump administration
Dozens of government computers sit in a nondescript building here, able to connect to a data model that could help farmers manage the impact of a changing climate on their crops.
But no one in this federal agency would know how to access the model, or, if they did, what to do with the data.
That’s because the ambitious federal researcher who created it in Washington quit rather than move when the Agriculture Department relocated his agency to an office park here last fall.
He is one of hundreds of scientists across the federal government who have been forced out, sidelined or muted since President Trump took office.
The exodus has been fueled broadly by administration policies that have diminished the role of science as well as more specific steps, such as the relocation of agencies away from the nation’s capital.
- ok_not_ok0
- foutreutopian
- No, it’s notGnash
- It is if you think about it.monospaced
- Nope, no cool mirror visor, no patches or camera, no comm’s. And no matter how much time you spend in your suit, you don’t absorb your tailGnash
- when you think about it, bark is a spacesuit for a tree, skin is a spacesuit for a human, etc. etc. we are outfitted by evolution for our environssarahfailin
- grafician1
"Scientists Say They Can Recreate Living Dinosaurs Within the Next Few Years"
"This story was originally published on June 16, 2015,
Don’t we already know how this movie’s going to end?
In a potentially terrifying case of life imitating art, the renowned paleontologist who served as the inspiration for Jurassic Park protagonist Dr. Alan Grant is spearheading genetic research that could engineer dinosaurs back into existence within the next five to 10 years, he says."
- Will probably need to bring back elephants before that. Would be cool though.PhanLo
- grafician2
https://edition.cnn.com/style/ar…
"Ambitious designs for underwater 'space station' and habitat unveiled"
"Sixty feet beneath the surface of the Caribbean Sea, aquanaut Fabien Cousteau and industrial designer Yves Béhar are envisioning the world's largest underwater research station and habitat.
The pair have unveiled Fabien Cousteau's Proteus, a 4,000-square-foot modular lab that will sit under the water off the coast of Curaçao, providing a home to scientists and researchers from across the world studying the ocean -- from the effects of climate change and new marine life to medicinal breakthroughs."
- *goes watching The Sphere and Abyss again*grafician
- kewlutopian
- It definitely looks cool, but what's the difference between hauling stuff into this to examine vs. hauling it up to an on-land lab?MondoMorphic
- Effects of gravity, pressure, etc.
Also could be a good backup if we fuckup the land and we need to relocate underwater - as an option lolgrafician - SeaLab. At the bottom of the sea.imbecile
- It's all science and good until a pissed of 100mt octopus rips it off the ground.Beeswax
- B1K1N1 BOTTOM_niko
- We don’t already have this?scarabin
- utopian0
Masks Save Lives
Universal mask-wearing is the most overlooked COVID-19 lifesaver
https://www.maskssavelives.org
- i_monk0
Here we show that wheat grown on a single hectare of land in a 10-layer indoor vertical facility could produce from 700 ± 40 t/ha (measured) to a maximum of 1,940 ± 230 t/ha (estimated) of grain annually under optimized temperature, intensive artificial light, high CO2 levels, and a maximum attainable harvest index. Such yields would be 220 to 600 times the current world average annual wheat yield of 3.2 t/ha. Independent of climate, season, and region, indoor wheat farming could be environmentally superior, as less land area is needed along with reuse of most water, minimal use of pesticides and herbicides, and no nutrient losses. Although it is unlikely that indoor wheat farming will be economically competitive with current market prices in the near future, it could play an essential role in hedging against future climate or other unexpected disruptions to the food system.
- I think the amount of infrastructure needed to be built to compete with the millions of acres of farmland would be an environmental disaster alone.zarkonite
- I don't think it's meant to compete or replace, but there are definite advantages/savings when you consider these can be built in urban areas.i_monk
- Also, people need to stop being afraid of GMO crops. It’s as anti-science as flat-earthersGnash
- ... almost as anti scienceGnash
- sted0
- uan1
Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time
https://www.quantamagazine.org/p…
„Yet while researchers celebrate the achievement, they stress that the newfound compound — created by a team led by Ranga Dias of the University of Rochester — will never find its way into lossless power lines, frictionless high-speed trains, or any of the revolutionary technologies that could become ubiquitous if the fragile quantum effect underlying superconductivity could be maintained in truly ambient conditions.“
so still no hoverboards :(
„That’s because the substance superconducts at room temperature only while being crushed between a pair of diamonds to pressures roughly 75% as extreme as those found in the Earth’s core.“
- sted7
Etching a Simple Pattern on Solar Panels Boosts Light Absorption by 125%, Study Shows
- neat.utopian
- Good news, solar and other renewable sources surpassed old energy sources recently in value.grafician
- Also ppl looking into the viability of underwater currents power plants. Way more powerful and efficient than wind farms and such.grafician
- Honest question: aside from storage, a problem with solar is keeping them clean, so how do you deal with the grime in the new grooves?garbage
- I'm sure there's a protective cover, but eventually that's just gonna seal in the flavor?garbage
- Cool, I want my chickens, my stove and my solar paneli_was
- Re grime in grooves, perhaps the etching pattern still works if it’s facing down (away from the elements)Gnash
- I see a business opportunity here as a pattern maker lolgrafician
- if it turns out that the swastika is the most efficient pattern, do you still use it?Gnash
- @gnash There is a big overlap between climate change deniers and neo-nazis. Might be a good way to trick them into saving the planet.garbage
- lolmonospaced
- The 'etching' is less than micrometre thick - you don't need to worry about grot accumulation here. Even at 0.25mm you'd not much need to.Nairn
- eh, Gnash - when it tiles it's a Sayagata, not a mere symbol of Aryan domination-fantasy. It's an interesting form. Hugely inefficent when it comes to cutting.Nairn
- ..kind of like fractals. Never laser-cut a fractal. it takes ages.Nairn
- grafician2
"A New Map of All the Particles and Forces"
"We’ve created a new way to explore the fundamental constituents of the universe."
- I find these things infinitely fascinating but also infinitely impossible to understand, let alone understanding how scientists discover these things._niko
- But I guess that’s the point, the Higgs boson was theorized but not confirmed until the creation of the LHC and billions of dollars and thousands of scientists_niko
- Working for millions of collective hours. So o don’t feel so bad for not quite getting it but still._niko
- it's not really that hard to get _niko, you just need to drink moregrafician
- Or smoke/ingest more certain substances lol_niko
- @niko the moment you say you understand quantum mechanics it means you understand nothing about it, a famous quoterenderedred
- IRNlun60
- By 4yrs they believe that the earth is flatutopian
- By 5yrs they believe that the Apple is bestutopian
- By 6yrs they hate Nickelback.utopian
- By 7 they have dreds and have discovered ketaminescarabin
- prefer the to what? I didn't read the article :)monospaced
- preferred to eating broccoliGuyFawkes
- that's a cauliflowerMrT
- PonyBoy0
This fossilized butthole gives us a rare window into dinosaur sex
https://www.popsci.com/story/sci…
The cloaca is the hole-y grail to understanding prehistoric copulation.