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Carl-E:
Well, the Nobel prize for Physics came out a couple days ago, for the development of graphene, an atom-thick layer of carbon that's incredibly strong, stable, transparent, and an excellent electrical conductor.  Perfect for things like touchscreens.  The physicists got the idea one day when they peeled a piece of scotch tape off a block of graphite.  That's not how it's made, but it let to the final result. 

And you heard it here first! 

smack that isaiah:
I guess I'll say this here, but the Nobel prize for Chemistry went to a guy who went to my school (UD), researched here, was a professor here, and made his discovery here!  He also started the CSST lab here, and is generally awesome.

I'm a Chem Engineer, so I got quite the earful about him yesterday.

He discovered a Palladium catalyzed reaction which can form a carbon-carbon bond between sp2 hybridized carbon molecules.  This was expanded pretty far after his initial discovery, and it's actually a really important catalysis reaction for pharmaceuticals today.
I dunno, I guess I'm in the right field of study b/c I got really happy/a bit teary eyed in my orgo class hearing about his work, his struggles (he lost a lot of funding in 1989 and retired early when his backers thought that this Pd catalyst was just applicable to a niche field), and his final triumph and recognition with this Nobel prize.

edit: oh, his name is Dr. Heck, and next semester I have to learn and memorize the Pd-catalyst reaction he developed, the Heck Reaction

JD:
He also levitated a frog.

tomart:

--- Quote from: Carl-E on 07 Oct 2010, 07:26 ---Well, the Nobel prize for Physics came out a couple days ago, for the development of graphene, an atom-thick layer of carbon that's incredibly strong, stable, transparent, and an excellent electrical conductor.  Perfect for things like touchscreens.  The physicists got the idea one day when they peeled a piece of scotch tape off a block of graphite.  That's not how it's made, but it let to the final result.  

And you heard it here first!  
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Yes, this comic is how i keep up with modern scientific advancements.  Anthro-PCs, flying roombas, boyfriend-bots, i'd have to go comb through the archives to find them all!

Akima:
Permanently inhabited private space-stations, super-intelligent orbital weapons...

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