Students at the University of Hull have created MolCraft, a Minecraft world which teaches biochemistry to kids.
It will be free to download and will be available in the MinecraftEdu library for teachers. The funding came from the Royal Society of Chemistry. The creators hope to see it used in schools.

>MolCraft is a world where the majestic helices of myoglobin rise above you. Where you can explore this massive molecule and its iron centre that carries oxygen around your muscles. Or, if you prefer you can fly down a pore through which water molecules normally flow across cell membranes.
>In MolCraft, anyone can explore the building blocks of these incredible natural nano-machines. You can discover how just 20 chemical building blocks can result in the astonishing diversity of structures and functions that are required to hold living things together.”

In 2013 Google, MinecraftEdu and Caltech's Institute for Quantum Information and Matter created qCraft to teach quantum computing to children.

>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/30/minecraft-teaches-biochemistry-children-molcraft

Do you think you'd stand a better chance of learning quantum computing, biochemistry, or whatever, as a child, with a traditional good teacher and a pen and paper, or via minecraft/quirky modern methods?

That's right, another fucking KIC 8462852 thread, but this time it's different. Instead of just fapping about what we'd if we contact ayy lmao's let's do something useful, let's search for more alien megastructures!

Go to http://www.planethunters.org/ and start searching!

It's the same shit that was used to discover KIC 8462852.

TL;DR let's hunt for ayy lmao's using the internet!
http://www.planethunters.org/

>all of quantum physics is based off an error

Why does no one acknowledge feynman was incorrect when he said a single slit does not produce an interference pattern? We know it does with monochromatic light.

>pic related. Clear interference pattern. Its just 8x smaller in amplitude than double slit

Here's the video of feynmans error at 28:35: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAgcqgDc-YM

Why is this bad? Bc this started the mystery woowoo nonsense that particles don't follow classical deterministic rules. It encouraged physicists to ignore obvious solutions. The interference pattern is not a result of randomness or wavefunction collapse or conscious particles. Its the result of electromagnetic interactions between the particles and the material around the slits. Tell me why electromagnetic force is ignored suddenly during the double slut experiment? Why isn't feynmans error common knowledge?

Explain this.

Shouldn't the answer be 17.999999999

What is the best online tool to learn maths that isn't fucking Khan Academy?

I also have a $100 gift card to half price books and can buy whatever book, basically.

How do we send humans on Mars?

Getting to LEO takes ~10k dV. Getting to Mars Orbit takes another ~7k dV. Returning from Mars Orbit to Earth is another 7k dV.
Landing on Mars requires another 4k dV. Taking off from Mars into orbit is another 4k dV. Just the Mars Lander alone would need 8k dV, that's almost the size and weight of a vehicle launching from Earth into LEO.

Right now we're struggling to send more than a few dozen tons of stuff into Earth Orbit (10k dV), how are we ever going to be able to do this?

Tell me, /sci/:

Does this image look "wrong" to you?

"An antimicrobial wound dressing was prepared by impregnating silver nanoparticles into the bacteria cellulose produced by Acetobacter xylinum (strain TISTR 975), by immersing bacterial cellulose in silver nitrate solution. Sodium borohydride was then used to reduce the absorbed silver ion (Ag+) inside of bacterial cellulose to form metallic silver nanoparticles. The red shift and broadening of the optical absorption band were observed when the mole ratio of sodium borohydride to silver nitrate was decreased, indicating the increase in particle size and particle size distribution of silver nanoparticles. The freeze-dried silver nanoparticle-impregnated bacterial cellulose exhibited strong antimicrobial activity against both gram-negative (E. coli) and gram-positive (Staphylococcus aureus) bacteria."

Source: Maneerung T, Tokura S, Rujiravanit R. Impregnation of silver nanoparticles into bacterial cellulose for antimicrobial wound dressing. Carbohydr Polym 2008;72(1):43-51.

How close are we to a colony, /sci/?

. (5 points) If p(3x) = x
2 and p(2x) = x, is it possible that p is a linear function from the
polynomials to the polynomials? Explain your answer. (Hint: Fractions are scalors too!!)