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What's Going on in Science?
Well, many things, of course. You might find this of interest.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/shadows-two-failed-searches-loom-over-physics

Reading comprehension

Reply #50 –
SELECT SYSDATE FROM DUAL;

My mother wouldn't tell its meaning. Pity her. :awww:

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Reply #51 –
Science says that monkeys cannot type Shakespeare's works after all.
Quote from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773186324001014
We demonstrate that the widely-accepted conclusion from the Infinite Monkeys Theorem is, in fact, misleading in our finite universe.

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Reply #52 –
It's nice to see the math, but the word misleading sure is some oddly clickbait writing. I'd have been very surprised indeed if they'd said it was likely within merely a few billion years.

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Reply #53 –
Japanese researchers have launched the first wooden satellite.
Quote from: https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/worlds-first-wooden-satellite-developed-japan-heads-space-2024-11-05/
Decommissioned satellites must re-enter the atmosphere to avoid becoming space debris. Conventional metal satellites create aluminium oxide particles during re-entry, but wooden ones would just burn up with less pollution, Doi said.
"Metal satellites might be banned in the future," Doi said. "If we can prove our first wooden satellite works, we want to pitch it to Elon Musk's SpaceX."

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Reply #54 –
Antimatter could travel by truck, a test with protons shows
Quote from: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/antimatter-protons-travel-truck
...antiprotons are a precious resource — CERN, near Geneva, is the only place where the particles can be trapped and studied. Scientists would like the option to take them elsewhere...

Quote from: https://home.cern/news/news/experiments/base-experiment-takes-big-step-towards-portable-antimatter
Yesterday [from 25 October, 2024], the team of scientists and engineers took an important step towards this goal by transporting a cloud of 70 protons in a truck across CERN’s main site. “If you can do it with protons, it will also work with antiprotons,” said Christian Smorra, the leader of BASE-STEP. “The only difference is that you need a much better vacuum chamber for the antiprotons.”

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Reply #55 –
Pulling gold out of e-waste suddenly becomes super-profitable
Quote from: https://newatlas.com/materials/gold-electronic-waste/
In a new study, researchers from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have detailed a sustainable, cost-effective method of selectively extracting gold from electronic waste or e-waste.

“The fact I love the most is that we’re using a food industry byproduct to obtain gold from electronic waste,” said Raffaele Mezzenga, the study’s corresponding author. “You can’t get more sustainable than that!”

The food industry byproduct Mezzanga is referring to is whey, the watery portion of milk that separates from the curds when making cheese. Here, the researchers turned this dairy waste into a matrix of protein amyloid fibrils they used as an adsorbent to selectively remove gold from e-waste.

Under acidic conditions and high temperatures, the whey proteins were denatured – the destruction of the protein’s structure into a looser, more random one – causing them to aggregate into nanofibrils in a gel. The gel was dried and formed into a sponge.
 

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Reply #56 –
I wonder how that's developed in the meantime.