Top Ten Surreal Scientific Breakthroughs of 2009

[Ichingcarpenter]

Telepathy helmets, spray-on solar cells and seeing through a tooth: they may seem unlikely or even impossible, but these are real recent scientific discoveries. It may sound like the most unlikely of science fiction, but these things are actually possible thanks to the many astounding discoveries made in the past year or so.


http://webecoist.com/2009/11/16/surreal-science-10-sensational-new-discoveries/

At least according to the web site but I thought they were interesting.

[byronius]

1. Cool post. I'll have to explore that site.

[Liberation Angel]

2. k&r

[Hissyspit]

3. Oh, crap. We're halfway through November.

How the hell did that happen?

[struggle4progress]

4. We can call bullshit on the "Star Trek" teleportation idea immediately: when the

quantum-entanglement people talk about "teleportation" that's not really what they mean. And confusion on this point is enduring: five or ten years ago, a major company (IIRC IBM?) got egg on its face when some PR guy launched an ad campaign claiming the company was about to bring teleportation to the masses -- based on his misunderstanding of similar research being done by company scientists

[truedelphi]

5. About two months ago, at a health clinic, a wand was

Waved across my forehead for a nano second, and that gave the nurse my temp!