28 points

So it’s galaxies all the way down?

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And all the way up!

There are organisms for whom our galaxies are seen as cells.

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What organisms are those?

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34 points

Your mom.

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This is just really neat. Keep up the good work, scientists!

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One step closer to teleporters

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Screw teleporters, I want replicators

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6 points

Real monkey paw here…

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Aww, that guy’s kinda cute, why wouldn’t I want to let it live in my house with its pals?

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9 points

All of the above and holodecks please

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Yeah, I suppose replicators are an inevitable punctuated step on the way.

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Is there much difference between the two logistically? Seems like the replicator is just the second half of a transporter.

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Well there’s an episode in ds9 where a replicator is modified into a teleporter, so in the star trek universe they’re very similar. Replicators reconstitute matter from waste material, and seems to me to be far more likely in the realm of scientific possibility.

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It’s incredible that we can actually ‘see’ the atomic lattice and it’s also pretty wicked that the oxygen atom is more ‘fuzzy’ because, I think given the explanation on how they imaged this, it’s less dense than praseodymium and scandium.

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how do they achieve higher resolutions than with former electron microscopes.

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They use a technique called ptychography. They explain it a bit more in the article.

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The way they describe it in the article is how I understand a electron microscope works

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interferometry

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