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[scrdest]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25743806

There, non-daily fail source.

'Cold, snowy winters could become the norm for Europe'.

As much as I know the pains of shoveling the white crap and recognize that paying high heating bills suck, it still makes me happy.

[Helgoland]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25743806

There, non-daily fail source.

'Cold, snowy winters could become the norm for Europe'.

As much as I know the pains of shoveling the white crap and recognize that paying high heating bills suck, it still makes me happy.

Shouldn't they be the norm now?

[MonkeyHead]

Cold, snowy winters are the norm for most of Europe. Thats not news!

Pesky Ninja...

[Dutchling]

Well, this winter might finally be a snowless one
plxplxplxplxplxplx

[10ebbor10]

Mysteriously appearing rocks.

[Bauglir]

Probably just witches messing with us.

[kaian-a-coel]

Kepler data leads to an estimation of 9 billions habitable exoplanets in our galaxy. That's around 20% of sunlike stars having one. Statistically speaking the closest is a mere 12 lighyears away.
The Drake equation is getting figured, another unknown discovered.
The hunt for inhabited exoplanets begins.

Source: Science&vie (french scientific vulgarisation magazine, paper, trustworthy. Recently celebrated their centennial)

[MaximumZero]

So, apparently scientists have discovered a way to create stem cells from non-embryonic sources.

Awesome.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Oh man, on demand pluripotency. That's a serious fucking game changer. You could regenerate just about anything with that, using the proper type and insertion location. This means the only step remaining is on demand totipotency. That's what people think of when they think of the potential applications of stem cells. You could apply totipotent stem cells anywhere for apply and forget regeneration. But either way, the idea of permanent injury is now officially on the way out.

[MaximumZero]

Indeed. Maybe someday, I'll be able to do stuff without being in horrible pain. Then again, when I was on painkillers for breaking my hand, and I woke up and wasn't in pain, I thought I was dead, so...

[ChairmanPoo]

This means the only step remaining is on demand totipotency.

Your wish is my command

(although, TBH, I am not 100% sure on why your eagerness to sprout placentas around your internal organs)

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Very funny. We both know totipotent cells can be differentiated into any human cell, though I suppose there is a risk of it going horribly wrong without proper direction.

[Reelya]

Kinda more tech related, but still really cool chemisty involved:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2014/01/29/3933872.htm

Chemists unveil 'water-jet' printer

Like any ordinary printer, this machine ingests a blank page and spits it out covered in print.

But instead of ink, it uses only water, and the used paper fades back to white within a day, enabling it to be reused.

The trick lies in the paper, which is treated with an invisible dye that colours when exposed to water, then disappears.

"Several international statistics indicate that about 40 per cent of office prints (are) taken to the waste paper basket after a single reading,"

"Based on 50 times of rewriting, the cost is only about one per cent of the inkjet prints," says Zhang.

Crucially, the new method does not require a change of printer but merely replacing the ink in the cartridge with water, using a syringe.

Yeah, so you can get this specially-treated paper, and inject water into empty ink cartridges, then print with water in a regular inkjet printer, at least for temporary documents. The paper is about 5% more expensive than untreated paper, so not a lot.

[Lagslayer]

snip

Interesting, but application seems very limited. The effect is only temporary, and limited to a whatever color ink the paper was treated with.

[Frumple]

Point seems to be that that limited application is very widespread, going by that 40% trashed figure. And yeah, a great, great deal of what I've seen in terms of paperwork has been monochrome and basically unnecessary beyond a few minutes. And if it is, well. Scanner, yeah.

'Course, there's probably room for those ridiculously thin touchscreen surfaces or whatever to replace most of that temporary stuff, at some point in the future. Touchscreen paperwork (involving no paper at all!), aiee...

Or just take the whole bloody office digital. Paperless office, ho!