is the doomsday coming?

some scientists think so…

they are so sure it is true, that they have filled a lawsuit in Hawaii’s U.S. District Court against U.S. Department of Energy, Fermilab, the National Science Foundation and CERN

they want them to postpone their experiments with coliding high energy particles while the safety was reassessed

those people are former nuclear safety officer Walter Wagner and  Luis Sancho

the thing is, those scientist think that those organizations, can, by experimenting, spell the end of us all

and they’ve released three scenarios they think can make it happen

• Runaway black holes
•  Strangelets
• Magnetic monopoles

famous scientist, Michio Kaku, thinks there is no real danger

I… well I don’t really care

there’s going to be a day when you, me will just die

so, why be afraid since it is going to happen

now or whenever, it will happen

I’d like it to be in the faaaaar future but I can not control it

and I don’t want to go mad worrying that it may happen sooner then I hope for

so, I hope they’ll fight in court and prove whether those experiments are safe or not

read more about it here

and the force is 210 piconewtons to move cobalt atom over a smooth platinum surface and 17 piconewtons to move cobalt atom over a copper surface

this was found out by IBM scientist working with their colleagues from University of Regensburg in Germany

read more about it here

no, it’s not science fiction

some scientists at Monash University, Victoria, Australia, made clothes able to clean themselves (imagine that)

they used titanium dioxide nanoparticles on wool, silk etc.

the clothes work by oxidizing (burning, degrading) bacteria and the likes and can even self remove wine stains

I know I’d like to have clothes/bed sheets from those materials

check out the story here

Professor Stan Skafidis and his team of Melbourne University have made this small chip for wireless data exchange.

The chip is about a few millimeters in size, manages data transfers up to 5 gigabits per second, has a radius of 10 meters and works at 60 GHz spectrum.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have so much bandwidth in your room that all the other devices (laptop, tv, mobile phone, camera etc.) can use?

The chip uses less than 2 Watts of power and it costs like USD 10 to make it

Here’s the link

Wow

Scientists are getting smarter by the minute

This time, they made this scanning microscope that can make images on nano scale objecs, even in realtime.

They filmed various materials, E. Coli bacteria, human red blood cells after being treated with antibiotics, Cyanobacteria, virus attacking DNA etc.

See it at wired here