Interesting work, with even more interesting potential uses. Though as the comments point out, it’s probably not enough to stop cavities (or “caries,” in dental terms) in the long run. From comment #17, another interesting tidbit: there’s a sweetener called “Xylitol” that not only doesn’t add to tooth decay, it actually kills off the cavity-forming …
Here’s my Christmas present to my readers: there’s an phenomena which has not yet been fully explained, called the Biefeld-Brown effect, that apparently produces a gravity field directly from electricity. The effect was discovered early in the twentieth century, but abandoned due to technical limitations and all but forgotten, which is why I’d never heard …
This sounds like wonderful news at first, but when you think about it a little more, it seems like a disaster waiting to happen — one that only a few SF novelists have even attempted to write about. And of those few, the only one that I’ve read (which, unfortunately, I do not recall the …
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First, read this, and maybe watch the video there. Then read the following passage from the book Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, published eighteen years ago (1992) and one of my favorite near-future SF novels. One of the main characters is a teenage girl who goes by the handle “YT” and couriers messages by skateboard …
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Not enough blood donors? That may not be a problem in the near future.
Major news for space enthusiasts: NASA has found “life as we do not know it” in California! The arsenic-based life form apparently uses completely different metabolic processes from anything else we know of! According to a 1962 article by science and science-fiction giant Isaac Asimov (titled “Not as We Know it: The Chemistry of Life”), …
By the end of this decade or the next, “regenerative medicine” could well be commonplace. Dr. Who, eat your heart(s) out. 😉
We space/science/SF geeks have always hoped that something like this would be the case, but we didn’t know what to expect. It looks like a second of the variables in the calculation of the odds of intelligent civilizations in the universe that we could communicate with (the Drake Equation) has been solved… only four more …
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I’ve talked about compact fluorescent lights before, and (in the comments) about LED lights. Apparently LEDs are getting really good now… CF lights may turn out to be really short-lived.
I’ve mentioned the problem before, about three years ago: the platinum/iridium cylinder in France that is the official reference for the kilogram is losing weight, for reasons that currently baffle science. Any reference object is useless if it can’t be relied on to stay the same, so the science community is making a determined effort …
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