#CHEMISTRY/PHYSICS/MATERIALS SCIENCES

[mindblowingscience]

Materials scientist and physicist Guosong Hong is an expert in getting materials to do remarkable things. Recently, he and collaborators used a common food dye found in snack chips to turn living tissue transparent, allowing light to penetrate through skin and muscle. Hong is now working to realize a new age of medical imaging that lets doctors see deep into the body – without surgery. It’s a miracle of physics but it could change medicine, Hong tells host Russ Altman on the latest episode of Stanford Engineering’s The Future of Everything podcast.

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[materialsscienceandengineering]

Scientists have found an alternative way to produce atoms of the superheavy element livermorium. The new method opens up the possibility of creating another element that could be the heaviest in the world so far: number 120. The search for new elements comes from the dream of finding a variant that is sufficiently stable to be long-lived and not prone to immediate decay. There is a theory in nuclear physics about an island of stability of superheavy elements. This is a potential zone in the upper part of the periodic table of as-yet-undiscovered elements that could remain stable for longer than just a few seconds. The aim is to explore the limits of stability of atomic nuclei.

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[studiousandrogynousfox-blog]

new job

i started my internship last week! my colleagues are all really nice and i feel like i'm starting to get the hang of things. although there's not that much i can do yet because i still need to complete some introductions. so my main task at the moment is developing a gui for analysing the raw data of our spectrometers. which is cool and challenging and not something i've done before, but it's desk work. and i struggle slightly when i spend a full day at the desk. but i think i'll get to do more lab work soon :)

[hardyorange]

my students who are struggling in my math class are also the ones struggling with not just media literacy but literacy in general

considering the material you were given, what questions are being asked about the material, and how you might approach the material to justify reaching a particular conclusion are all steps in solving math problems AND in being critical of media

maybe, as adults, we could finally stop pitting school subjects against each other, and instead recognize that the devaluation of any one subject ultimately serves as justification for underfunding or eliminating public education as a whole?

Having media literacy is more important than being good at math prove me wrong

[kamalkafir-blog]

An ‘impossible’ 20-electron molecule challenges 100 years of chemistry

For over a century, the well-known 18-electron rule has guided the field of organometallic chemistry. Now, researchers at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have successfully synthesized a novel organometallic compound that challenges this longstanding principle. They have created a stable 20-electron derivative of ferrocene, an iron-based metal-organic complex, which could lead…

[dr-afsaeed]

Scientists create an artificial cell capable of navigating its environment using chemistry alone - New Study/Science Updates

Researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) have created the world’s simplest artificial cell capable of chemical navigation, migrating toward specific substances like living cells do. Summary Researchers at IBEC have engineered the simplest artificial cell yet, capable of chemotaxis, a process where cells move towards specific chemicals. This artificial cell mimics the…

[science-rpg]

Hatsune Miku (NPC ; Fictional) (Biologist ; Geneticist)

After a nasty televised incident with bacterial contamination, this world-renowned pop idol / scientist is determined to teach proper lab safety to the youngin's. And hopefully erase everyone's memory but who could forget that?

STATS

First Encountered at ; (Lv 39)

Health : 9

Strength : 1

Endurance : 9

Intelligence : 3

Fortitude : 2

Stamina : 7

Wit : 9

Specializations

Majors

Biology ; Genetics | Social Science ; Sci Comm

Minors

Geology ; Pedology | Chemistry ; Physical Chem

Equipment

Auto Pipette (Weapon)

+ 15 accuracy

+ 5 Chemisty Damage

+ 5 Biology Damage

Lab safety glasses (PPE)

+ 6 Endurance

- 2 accuracy

Blocks certain accuracy lowering effects

Negi (Allium fistulosum) (Consumable item)

+ 2 Health

Cures Bacterial contamination

Prevents Sulphuric Odour for 2 turns

Signature move

GMO Polka (Support effect) (Biology ; Genetics)

The user grows Negi (Allium fistulosum) into the pockets of allies through Xylolinguistic song. Sure to cure broken hearts and common colds. Affected by Tilling 'Till Fertile Terrain effect.

Equipped abilities

Xylolinguistics

Globe trotter

Voice Projection

Key moves

Tilling 'Till Fertile

Xylosymphony

Protein shake up

Phylogenetic Grafting

CRISPR Draw

Bacterial contamination

Ethanol Scrub

Hydromonoxide cleanse

Audio Lecture

Technobabbel

Poster Pop Up

Live Presentation

X Discipline Translation

Thanks @runegod for the distraction to my nerves before I had my scholarship interview today.

lab miku says !

[mindblowingscience]

A research team successfully synthesized tungsten carbide (WC) and tungsten boride (WB2) ceramics with excellent mechanical properties and ablation resistance. These findings were published in the journal of Ceramics International and Journal of the European Ceramic Society. The team was led by Prof. Huang Zhulin at the Institute of Solid State Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ultrahigh temperature ceramics (UHTCs) are essential materials for thermal protection systems with high melting points and excellent stability. Tungsten-based UHTCs offer excellent resistance to heat and radiation. However, they have faced several challenges in practical applications, such as difficulty in achieving high density during processing, grain coarsening during sintering, and limited oxidation and ablation resistance.

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[materialsscienceandengineering]

Chromium-62 study helps researchers better understand shapes around islands of inversion

In a recent paper in Nature Physics, an international research collaboration used world-class instrumentation at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) to study the exotic nuclide, or rare isotope, chromium-62. The researchers used a gamma-ray spectroscopy experiment in tandem with theoretical models to identify an unexpected variety of shapes in chromium-62. The finding provides more insight into so-called "islands of inversion," or regions in the nuclear chart where certain nuclides diverge from traditional viewpoints based on the properties of stable nuclei. The work involved the joint effort of 23 researchers with 12 different affiliations among them. Led by Alexandra Gade, professor of physics at FRIB and in MSU's Department of Physics and Astronomy and FRIB scientific director, the collaboration also included Robert Janssens, Edward G. Bilpuch Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Brenden Longfellow, former FRIB graduate researcher and current staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as significant contributors.

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[academiceurope]

Job - Alert 📢

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🔬 Explore materials synthesis, simulations & device integration

💼 Fully funded (E13, 100%) | 🗓 Start: Jan 2026

🎓 Ideal for M.Sc. grads in: Materials Science, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Mathematics

📅 Deadline: July 15, 2025

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[excavatinglizard]

Got my research grant for the summer approved! Get to make cool things in a cool lab again :)

[eclipsellium]

i'm going to lock in for the month of october! so i'm making a list on here of everything i have to do this week and seeing if i can finish it

thermodynamics module

photography composition practice

titration procedure / lab / analysis / presentation

midterm review sheet

immigration research paper

particle motion lab

energy conversion lab

add magnetic field to ising model simulation

finish chapter 2 part 1 of cs textbook

mini-essay of music in great gatsby

practice test for analysis midterm

read chapter 6 of great gatsby

crossing my fingers that this holds me accountable. my procrastination is way out of control...

[pinballjizzard-official]

What is the One Ring Made of?

In The Fellowship of the Ring Gandalf drops the ring in the fire to reveal its hidden writing. Before depositing it in Frodo's hand he assures him that the ring is quite cool. This means that the one ring either has a very high or very low heat capacity. Either it's very low and when the ring is dropped in Frodo's hand, much like tinfoil, it has so little heat energy that it dissipates harmlessly. Or it's very high and even though it absorbed a tremendous amount of thermal energy from the fire it was not enough to raise its temperature significantly.

We also know that the one ring is incredibly dense, as is shown when Bilbo drops it on the floor of Bag End and it thuds to the ground instead of bouncing around like a normal gold ring.

So those are the criteria, the one ring is made from an element, or alloy, that has an incredibly high or incredibly low heat capacity and is at least twice as dense as gold.

[nartml]

history finals tmr, and the material spans across roughly 90 pages. i know roughly 3 of those.

fucking hate history.

[kamalkafir-blog]

Aluminium-20 shatters nuclear norms with explosive triple-proton breakup

Radioactive decay is a fundamental process in nature by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation. Studying nuclear decay modes is crucial for understanding properties of atomic nuclei. In particular, exotic decay modes like proton emission provide essential spectroscopic tools for probing the structure of nuclei far from the valley of stability — the region containing stable…

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