At 94, Lithium-Ion Pioneer Eyes A New Longer-Lasting Battery
But many scientists are are skeptical.
Well if it works then we are still stuck using lithium stillā¦ welp. Iād read more on it, but electricity isnāt really my thing.
Well John Goodenough help invented Lithium Ion batteries back in 79, when did we start to see them in use? First commercial Lithium battery was not till 1991.
And it was only after 2004 when we started actual widespread use.
When I started my M.S. (not biology, robotics and I did air traffic research), I had helped as an undergraduate researcher on a paper, but was not added to the author list. I helped do the software for a great learning opportunity.
I intended to stay on as a PhD and was convinced to go out and get a job immediately after a M.S. I first published after I finished my M.S. while starting my post university job.
At that job, I did much research and was co-author, or sub author, on about a dozen papers over 5 years. I mostly did software and then scientific analysis in air traffic research. That was a lot of fun, but underpaid.
My new job is almost entirely software engineering and Iām on only one paper about to be published. Most of the time I simply support the platform so that scientists and partners can publish their results. Thatās fine with me. Iām not an academic.
The high end of publications are like ten papers a year. Those people are the rare ones who can work 90+ hours a week and handle several different subjects at once with more than a few different partners.
Theyāre pretty weird and interesting. Most people want to have lives outside of work and so, having a few papers a year is fine. Most of my professors are around 3~4 publications a year, if theyāre full time professors (some have companies now)
Funny thing. Seems like the higher ones degree, the more underpaid you are. Then you have those people that barely went to school taking home 6 figures and suchā¦
Only if youāre in academia.
I wish that was supposed to be funny. 
With that in mind, Iād encourage everyone in this thread to read this. Itās one of those things thatās hugely problematic because science is really fucking important, but thereās fairly little will behind solving this stuff because it only directly affects a very small part of the population (namely, the people working in science), and a lot of these issues take actual time and effort to solve, and may even have to be done at an international level for the differences to be felt.
Well if you want to sell your sell your soul and do advertising for Alphabet, youāll gain some golden handcuffs. I almost got into the Stanford scene. I wouldnāt have been able to stop smelling my own farts.
My ATC research was underpaid for the SF bay area because itās government grant/contracts. Those are necessarily less than average pay in the bay area, unfortunately.
Research doesnāt make the big bucks, until suddenly a start up appears out of it and then you maybe, possibly, with a very small chance, make a decent business making money.
Yea, every time my work tended more towards the abstract end of science, the money was reduced.
When there were clear goals, the money gets bigger. Thatās the art of grant/contract writing I suppose.
Prove something has big potential, but in order to prove it has big potential, you need to get money and ā¦ thatās where a lot of ideas tend to die.
Sigh. Too true, 100%.
According To Science, Heavy Metal Makes You A Better Person
http://www.waaf.com/blogs/anthony-capobianco/according-science-heavy-metal-makes-you-better-person
No shit.
Many studies done in the past years about the metal subcultures have shown that all the stereotypes about them are quite the opposite from the truth.
http://earthsky.org/space/a2017u1-comet-asteroid-interstellar-beyond-solar-system
Surprised it didnāt slam into Earth or other planets. We let this one get passed us. Nobody knew about this rock until it āwas too lateāā¦
I am all for calling it a exoroid
Shameless self-promotion: this is what Iāve spent my last 8 months doing.
(please excuse a few cases of screwed-up formatting on the page, the wiki editing tool froze us out during one of our finals edits ._.)
Travelling to Boston to talk about bio-lasers next week, gonna be fun. ~~
Interesting stuff. Heavier on the biology side and light (no pun intended) on the optics side. My experience is more in photonics so this disappointed me a little. 
I suggest reading the Nature Photonics-article weāre citing if you want to know more. Itās a cool subject, itās just that nobody has really tested the theorized uses of a bio-laser yet.
Nice, what a clever way of potentially learning more about the protein, if Iām understanding correctly.
Glad to see what people are up to, here.
Well, kinda. Itās mainly to investigate gene expression, so itās useful for checking pathways and promoters. That sort of use was what we were trying to investigate, anyway.
Ah. Iām mostly of the same sentiment; I know little of the biology side, more of the physics side (although I wasnāt in photonics). Iāll read the linked article.