Science: It's what's for breakfast.
Dec. 3rd, 2010 12:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cherryThis has been an awesome two weeks for science.
The Large Hadron Collider trapped antimatter atoms (38 anti-hydrogen atoms, to be precise).
Then, scientist announces that there may be more than three times the numbers of stars and solar systems in the universe than was previously thought, potentially adding trillions more Earth-like planets.
Now, NASA has announced that a bacterium capable of replacing phosphorous with arsenic has been found. I'm not sure if I can express how potentially momentous this is: phosphorous is one the four main 'building block' elements held to be required for life. This opens up the possible environments for life not only directly but also indirectly, given opportunities for other such substitutions.
SCIENCE IS AWESOME, GUYS.
The Large Hadron Collider trapped antimatter atoms (38 anti-hydrogen atoms, to be precise).
Then, scientist announces that there may be more than three times the numbers of stars and solar systems in the universe than was previously thought, potentially adding trillions more Earth-like planets.
Now, NASA has announced that a bacterium capable of replacing phosphorous with arsenic has been found. I'm not sure if I can express how potentially momentous this is: phosphorous is one the four main 'building block' elements held to be required for life. This opens up the possible environments for life not only directly but also indirectly, given opportunities for other such substitutions.
SCIENCE IS AWESOME, GUYS.
