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[–] collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de 106 points 1 year ago (2 children)

JUST HAPPENED!!1!11

I’ll believe it when its not just youtube clickbait.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, publishing on youtube gets more viewers than publishing in a scientific paper

[–] kjack@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not sure that "number of eyeballs" is the metric by which a successful scientific discovery should be judged...

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Nonsense; this is the future.

Everything is shit in the future!

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

You're right, of course, but more eyeballs can lead to more sponsorship and more money, which leads to a greater chance of succes. Downside is that you've picked the commercial road and you'll probably end up in the pocket of some Nestle or Shell.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not just youtube clickbait, were you not aware of this news before this video?

[–] collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (8 children)

If you do a Google search for LK-99 you'll see a whole pile of news articles from the past two days. A preprint was posted on arXiv and everything exploded. There are labs all over the world working on reproducing the material and testing it right now, and it's a pretty simple thing to make so we'll have a solid answer likely within a week.