Wow, that's a pretty major find.
I would say it's a pretty (extremely) small find, of major importance.
pibbur who remembers Armstrong (not the bicyclist, but of course he remembers him as well, for completely different reasons).
That's what the wife said, right?
New photographs released by the European Southern Observatory show how severe the effect can be — and how a technology called adaptive optics can reduce the problem [of blurring caused by turbulence in Earth's atmosphere].
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The system compensates so effectively for the atmosphere that the test images taken with the system are about as sharp as photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope — which doesn't have to deal with the phenomenon at all.
The Very Large Telescope's views of Neptune, with and without its new adaptive-optics module, show how significant an improvement the new system represents.
This year's IgNobel prize for rollercoaster kidney stone therapy.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45513012
Yes, it actually makes sense. Most renal stones come out by themselves, and it doesn't surprise me that the accelerations supplied by a rollercoaster might accelerate the process. Why didn't I think of this before?
On a sidenote, for stones that remain stuck, focused ultrasound can be used to tear them to pieces (lithotripsy). In Norway the apparatus involved (the lithotriptor) is sometimes referred to as a "steinknuser" which translates to "stone crusher" in English. Considering that in Norwegian the common name for a testicle is "stein" ("stone") and …. *shivers*.
pibbur who, AFAHK, so far hasn't had any stones besides the two resting down under.