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Adding grapes to microwave setups doubles the magnetic field strength, opening doors for smaller, more efficient quantum sensors.

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[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 4 points 1 hour ago

It's funny how a month ago people in Lemmy were all bragging about every little piece of science being important to further understanding the world and that Republicans canning even a single minor study could lower our ability to come up with new things.

And here's a bunch of people treating this like it's garbage and are above it.

Hypocrites as always. Never change.

[-] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 31 points 6 hours ago

Jesus this is bad science, and bad science reporting. There was a paper specifically focusing on why grapes burn in microwave - turns out two spherical objects with certain properties tend to focus microwave radiation on the point right in between. Use that knowledge and make some proper antenna instead.

[-] CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net 15 points 4 hours ago

Your criticism is just sour grapes

[-] zifk@sh.itjust.works 97 points 13 hours ago

Lmao yes technically correct. The grapes aren't doing anything new, they're acting as a microwave resonator which makes some very interesting plasma physics you can do with a grape in the microwave. However, this is not a new phenomenon and there are much more convenient microwave resonators you can build out of metal.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 53 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Interestinengineering.com's bread and butter seems to be churning out low-effort articles targeted at laypeople who know fuck about shit and talking up every single minor new invention or discovery they can find as the craziest, most crucial thing ever. Written by laypeople who know fuck about shit (this one's written by a BA in history despite being on, you know, quantum physics). See also: Gell Mann amnesia.

Honestly seems like a trash website, and fluffing the hell out of any and every random discovery is bound to be damaging to the public perception of science in the long term.

[-] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 11 hours ago

Only because it seems like it's targeted at adults. Target it at kids, and you're going to spark some real scientists from articles like this.

[-] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

Didn't even have to read the article to know it was grape plasma

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 points 11 hours ago

Oh? More convenient than a bunch for a few bucks, found at any grocery? Jk but...

[-] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 25 points 12 hours ago

They did science on a grape

[-] houstoneulers@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago

Ever seen surgery on a grape?

[-] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

That's impossible you fool. They'll never do surgery on a grape until they figure out all the science they can do. You obviously have no idea what you're talking about as I have been on the internet since the early 90s and I've never heard of such an absurd thing as SURGERY on a GRAPE 😂😂😂

[-] houstoneulers@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago
[-] Moose@moose.best 3 points 10 hours ago

I got to try one of these surgery robots one time and it's to this day probably one of the coolest things I've been allowed to control.

[-] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Ah, no way, really? The da Vinci? That's badass. Closest I ever got was a 6-axis industrial Mitsubishi.

[-] Moose@moose.best 2 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, it was a Da Vinci back around 2012 I want to say? It was at a robotics competition as an exhibit, I just happened to go past while it wasn't busy and got to spend 5 minutes manipulating a little toy they had set up. It felt incredibly futuristic with the 3D display and finger controllers.

[-] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago
[-] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

Personally, I love grape science.

[-] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Kiwi-Strawberry is really good, but people consider it more pseudoscience these days

[-] HootinNHollerin@quokk.au 3 points 12 hours ago

Good ol’ pre-wine

this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2024
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