What's Cool in Science This Week?

[Staggerwing]

That is cool.

[besilarius]

Yes, but is it a European swallow or an African swallow?
And where does the cocanut fit in?

[Sir Slash]

And that doesn't explain why they attack their reflection in my truck side-view  mirrors. Come on guys, work on something relevant.  ;D

[Pete Dero]

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43727547

Nazi legacy found in Norwegian trees

The relentless campaign to find and sink Germany's WWII battleship, the Tirpitz, has left its mark on the landscape that is evident even today.
The largest vessel in Hitler's Kriegsmarine, it was stationed for much of the war along the Norwegian coast to deter an Allied invasion.
The German navy would hide the ship in fjords and screen it with chemical fog.
This "smoke" did enormous damage to the surrounding trees which is recorded in their growth rings.
Claudia Hartl, from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, stumbled across the impact while examining pines at Kåfjord near Alta.

[mirth]

Damned Nazis trees

[Sir Slash]

Is that the same 'chemical fog' that surrounds Snoop Dog every time I see him on TV?

[mirth]

That's a purple haze

[Sir Slash]

I bet that stuff will take your tree rings off for sure.  <:-)

[Labbug]

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_a_Thunderstorm

[BanzaiCat]

This "smoke" did enormous damage to the surrounding trees which is recorded in their growth rings.
Claudia Hartl, from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, stumbled across the impact while examining pines at Kåfjord near Alta.[/i]

[Labbug]

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/17/scientists-develop-mutant-enzyme-that-eats-plastic.html

[GDS_Starfury]

what could go wrong.....

[Sir Slash]

Great news! Now if we can find one that eats 'mutant enzymes', we'll be all covered. Until, we need one to eat the enzymes that eat the enzymes that eat the..... nevermind.  #:-)

[Labbug]

Interesting article on how NASA and John Deere partnered on self driving tractors.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/directorates/spacetech/spinoff/john_deere

[Labbug]

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/04/18/stunning-space-diamonds-discovery-mysterious-meteorite-came-from-lost-planet.html