Lenguador
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Lenguador@kbin.socialto World News@lemmy.ml•Scientists at Fermilab close in on fifth force of nature61·2 years agoFrom Wikipedia: this is only a 1-sigma result compared to theory using lattice calculations. It would have been 5.1-sigma if the calculation method had not been improved.
Many calculations in the standard model are mathematically intractable with current methods, so improving approximate solutions is not trivial and not surprising that we’ve found improvements.
Lenguador@kbin.socialto News@kbin.social•'Barbie' Makes Greta Gerwig 1st Female Director with Billion-Dollar Movie1·2 years agoThis seems like more of an achievement for the Barbie brand than for the individual director.
Lenguador@kbin.socialto News@kbin.social•How a plan to recognize Australia's indigenous people became the country's latest culture war2·2 years agoWhy do you say they have no representation? There are a lot of specific bodies operating in the government, advisory and otherwise, with the sole focus of indigenous affairs. And of course, currently, indigenous Australians are over represented in terms of parliamentarian race (more than 4% if parliamentarians are of indigenous descent).
Lenguador@kbin.socialto News@kbin.social•Johnson & Johnson sues researchers who linked talc to cancer1·2 years agoWhile in general, I’d agree, look at the damage a single false paper on vaccination had. There were a lot of follow up studies showing that the paper is wrong, and yet we still have an antivax movement going on.
Clearly, scientists need to be able to publish without fear of reprisal. But to have no recourse when damage is done by a person acting in bad faith is also a problem.
Though I’d argue we have the same issue with the media, where they need to be able to operate freely, but are able to cause a lot of harm.
Perhaps there could be some set of rules which absolve scientists of legal liability. And hopefully those rules are what would ordinarily be followed anyway, and this be no burden to your average researcher.
Lenguador@kbin.socialto Australia@aussie.zone•Lab-produced meat could be on Australian supermarket shelves as soon as next year0·2 years agoLooks like the same guys were doing publicity around 2019 https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2019-07-30/australia-joins-lab-grown-meat-industry/11360506
At the time, they claimed the cost to make a single hamburger was $30-$40, and now 4 years later, they claim to have gotten it down to $5-$6 per patty.
The article claims the first demonstration of a lab-grown hamburger was in 2013.So 6 years from proof of concept to (probably) first capital raise, then 4 years to start regulatory approval, 1 year for approval to take place (target is March next year).
That reminds me of a joke.
A museum guide is talking to a group about the dinosaur fossils on exhibit.
“This one,” he says, “Is 6 million and 2 years old.”
“Wow,” says a patron, “How do you know the age so accurately?”
“Well,” says the guide, “It was 6 million years old when I started here 2 years ago.”