Advanced Concepts Team

Funny idea.. Maybe we should install it on the coke machine downstairs? :)

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And the actual paper link with some graphs: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810012000037

Oh those bloody physicists... someone forgot to turn off the lights and now they have a 400 times better conductive crystal. If science was always that easy, I would light a candle every day.

Apparently this was not the first discovery of this effect involving SrTiO3. In an article from 2012 a conductance increase of 5 orders in magnitude is described (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn203991q). But indeed many large impact discoveries are accidental...

I thought we all knew already that science is just another form of directed random search :)))

Some hilarious dances in between.. Especially the "Sperm competition between brothers and female choice" is brilliant (Made in Oxford btw)

Funny rant about being a system guy. A lot of truth hidden in between the lines.

The opposite of biomimetic :)

now active cloaking ... Luzi?, Sante?, Anna?

Engineering and improving great tits so they can better withstand climate change. By selectively breeding and genetically engineering the birds scientists try to keep the time when the birds produce offspring in sync with the changing availability of food sources in spring (mainly grubs).

Pulsed device providing an Isp=20.000 with thrust of 40kN. There is an onboard fission reactor including shielding. Roundtrip to Mars in 30 days requires 350Mt of propellant, equivalent to delta_v=93200m/s

The reason why butterflies do not get wet wings.

Test cell reaches 500Wh/kg and about a 1000 cycles. Graphene is excellent to use as it can handle the thermal expansion during charge cycles which normally destroy the cathodes and thereby degrade performance over time.

This is seriously scary. Basically the only thing that hospitals could still help you with are broken arms and alcohol poisoning... :-\

And the scary part is antibiotics use for human medicine is dwarfed by antibiotics use in livestock, at least in most countries I think.

these are the latest in repellent surfaces.  a very nice video and as we previously discussed could be very useful in the ISS

Nice animation to summarize the current over fishing problem. For example, I never knew that farm raised fish (like salmon) actually are carnivorous and 5kg of fish is needed to produce 1kg of this 'higher quality' fish.

Now this is a step in the right direction of the discussion we had in one of the wednesday meetings "thoughts of a biologist part 1" :)