What:They studied data collected by theAtacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) on a distant galaxy and determined that the milimeter wavelength emission band collected was originally an infrared band associated with oxygen. MACS1149-JD1 is 13.28 billion light years away.

Why is this interesting:This is the furthest distance we’ve detected such a precise measurement of oxygen. Oxygen is ionized during star formation, so if we detect emission bands of oxygen we can determine when those stars were formed.

mindblowing, I knew digital editing was advanced, but this is beyond where I thought it was. If someone can semi casually do this...will actors even need to go to set? Everyone can be a no name body double

I’m surprised this escalated beyond the professor googling just to double check. Can you "fail" a student for getting a single answer wrong? I think the student in question may not have had the strongest grasp of the other material.

I was working on a new breadboard for a couple hours last night, I think I have blisters from pressing in the jumpers into the stiff pinholes.

"A solid surface, oscillating up and down, can launch a soft, wobbly ball into the air at higher speed than it would launch a hard ball of the same mass. That’s the surprising conclusion of a study by researchers in France, who demonstrate that a kind of synchronization between the internal vibration of a projectile and the frequency of the rising and falling surface can more than double the projectile’s kinetic energy. The phenomenon could have applications in ballistics or in microfluidic technology."

How do my fellow scientists keep up with the latest news?

I recently started using Newsify to aggregate and read at least the abstracts from journals I find interesting, but I always feel like I'm missing the big picture. I no longer follow science reporters like sciencedaily, too much misinformation.

One of these days I'd like to build a cnc autopipet. At the very least an xyz router with a pipetting arm. I fantasized about it a lot when i was doing low-air crystallization preps, hundreds of tiny little aliquots of different reagents into tiny little wells. Every time I'd lose count somewhere and have to write some sad comment in my notebook so if half the batch failed, I knew why. Pipetting is such a monotonous task, if you're not doing just a small experiment, it seems silly not to automate the whole thing.

So I feel like a bot right now, but I really like this iphone game. It's called Tchisla, and the point of the game is to represent one number entirely with another integer, using any math operators you want. You can also use the representative integer as digits, so for example 22 using 1's, you could do 11+11 It's silly but I like it

https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform/