Researcher developing hand-held gold sensor| # 12673 | 9 years ago on Wed, Feb 17 2016 at 7:03 am |
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Hello, forums people. Here's your dose of current events for the day: Instead of a pan and a pick ax, prospectors of the future might seek gold with a hand-held biosensor that uses a component of DNA to detect traces of the element in water. Link: user link on phys.org Certainly noteworthy, I guess. "Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that once it is competently programmed and working smoothly it is completely honest." -- Isaac Asimov |
| # 12676 | 9 years ago on Wed, Feb 17 2016 at 7:52 am |
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"There's gold in them thar hills!" Now you can know for sure because SCIENCE. Waff-O!
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| # 12739 | 9 years ago on Fri, Feb 19 2016 at 1:16 pm |
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Maybe they used the hand-held gold sensor to discover gold in another hand-held device: cell phones! No moar phone chuckin' mates! You cannot comprehend me. |
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