What's Cool in Science This Week?

[MetalDog]

How about a picture of an atom?


https://qz.com/1205279/photo-of-an-atom-a-scientist-captured-an-incredible-photograph/

[Sir Slash]

That's the same size as the fish in Red Lobster's Seafood Combo.  ::)

[GDS_Starfury]

if youre eating at red lobster youre doing it wrong.

[Windigo]

Olive Garden is much more classy

[bbmike]

That's the same size as the fish in Red Lobster's Seafood Combo.  ::)

if youre eating at red lobster youre doing it wrong.

Yeah, Sir Slash, especially if you live in Florida!

[Barthheart]

How about a picture of an atom?


https://qz.com/1205279/photo-of-an-atom-a-scientist-captured-an-incredible-photograph/

While cool, the scale seems off. If the electrodes are 2 mm apart that "atom" is huge! Unless what we're seeing is actually an atom in motion as it's trapped in the electric field..... a single Strontium atom is only 4.30×10^-10 m in diameter.

[Sir Slash]

One thing we do have in Florida is some damn fine Seafood Restaurants even in my little land-locked town. Problem is, if you're a native, you can only get in them between May and September and only then with a gun in each hand. My brother and I were going to have lunch at a nice outside place back in December and they only took on-line reservations a day in advance.  :o   They page you on your phone when your table's available. The word 'walk-in' has no meaning there. But the food's damned good.  O0

[mirth]

..... a single Strontium atom is only 4.30×10^-10 m in diameter.

[Windigo]

How about a picture of an atom?


https://qz.com/1205279/photo-of-an-atom-a-scientist-captured-an-incredible-photograph/

While cool, the scale seems off. If the electrodes are 2 mm apart that "atom" is huge! Unless what we're seeing is actually an atom in motion as it's trapped in the electric field..... a single Strontium atom is only 4.30×10^-10 m in diameter.

but it's still the light emission record of a single atom....      \m/

[Barthheart]

..... a single Strontium atom is only 4.30×10^-10 m in diameter.

Come on! Everyone knows that.  :P

[BanzaiCat]

Yeah, come on. Even I know that organostrontium compounds contain one or more strontium–carbon bonds.

Some people.  ::)

[Staggerwing]

Oh oh- it finally happened.

B_C is now staying at a Holiday Inn Express.

[mirth]

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/2/20/17031256/worlds-largest-ssd-drive-samsung-30-terabyte-pm1643

[Labbug]

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/02/21/ancient-roman-boxing-gloves-discovered-near-hadrians-wall.html

[bob48]

So that's where I left 'em!

The site is not many miles from where I live.