Two scientists walk into a bar
The first scientist says ‘I’ll have a glass of H2O”
The second scientist says ‘I’ll have a glass of water too. Wh… why did you say H2O? Like, I know it’s the chemical formula for water and all, but it’s the end of the day and there’s really no need to intentionally over-complicate things like that in a situation outside of work”
The first scientist stares at his drink, angry that his assassination plan has failed.
clacking teeth
Physicist Discovers How to Teleport Energy →
Since energy and mass can be converted back and forth (E=MC2), it’s only a matter of time before teleportation is real. 2010!
All this is possible because there are always quantum fluctuations in the energy of any particle. The teleportation process allows you to inject quantum energy at one point in the universe and then exploit quantum energy fluctuations to extract it from another point. Of course, the energy of the system as whole is unchanged.…Whoa.
Oh how I love phyics.
Massive Black Hole Implicated in Stellar Destruction
New results from research led by a College astronomer suggest that a dense stellar remnant has been ripped apart by a black hole a thousand times as massive as the sun.
If confirmed, this discovery would be a cosmic double play: it would be strong evidence for an intermediate mass black hole, which has been a hotly debated topic among astronomers, and would mark the first time such a black hole has been caught tearing a star apart.
Dr. Jimmy Irwin, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, led the team which obtained the results from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Magellan telescopes.
“Astronomers have made cases for stars being torn apart by super massive black holes in the centers of galaxies before, but this is the first good evidence for such an event in a globular cluster,” Irwin said.
The cosmic double-play scenario is based on Chandra observations, which revealed an unusually luminous source of X-rays in a dense cluster of old stars and optical observations that showed a peculiar mix of elements associated with the X-ray emission.
Taken together, a case can be made that the X-ray emission is produced by debris from a disrupted white dwarf star that is heated as it falls towards a massive black hole. The optical emission comes from debris further out that is illuminated by these X-rays.
Irwin and his colleagues obtained optical spectra of the object using the Magellan I and II telescopes in Las Campanas, Chile.
[Via Science Daily/caissa]
View Larger Frankenstein will not be too far now:
A dead heart beats again, thanks to the efforts of scientists at the University of Minnesota. To rebuild and reanimate the organ, which was harvested from a rat, scientists first stripped the old heart cells away with a detergent typically found in shampoos.
That left behind a collagen matrix—the protein fibers that hold groups of cells together and help give organs their overall shape—which they then reseeded with heart cells from a newborn rat. They attached the organ to electrodes and waited. Then it happened: The heart started to beat regularly.
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