Ohhhh I'm so glad I stumbled on your blog, this is fascinating stuff... I had already been interested in fusion, but your work with nanotech is incredible too! I have torn through most of this blog in like, a day lol.
And since this is an ask and I want some kind of question, have you been able to bring any interesting experience to the fusion side of things from your time at the nanotech firm, in particular?
At this point, whenever I'm in a lab meeting where boron ceramic comes up, everybody turns to me and says we're NOT going to spend ten million dollars on boron nitride nanotubes before I get a chance to chime in and suggest that we spend ten million dollars on boron nitride nanotubes.
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The zombie virus outbreak happened a few years ago. Scientists across the world set out to research a cure, desperate to prevent the fall of humanity.
In contrast to 60 years of zombie fiction, they find it.
The cure is both preventative and palliative. Nanobots inside the body creating an artificial immune system, fully programmable, one that can be tuned to attack anything. Zombie virus. The common cold. Cancer. It’s not just a cure for Zombiism—it’s a cure for everything.
And then the programming glitches.
The nanites want to spread.
And the world falls to pieces under the strain of two competing forms of Zombie virus, one biological and one technological, each with different infection vectors, different behaviors in the victims, different everything.
Except the original zombies would’ve rotted away, eventually. They would’ve starved to death, or frozen, or boiled, unable to take care of themselves or protect themselves from the elements.
The nanites, on the other hand, won’t let their infected die. They can repair any damage their host suffers if given enough biomass—even gunshot wounds. Even partial incineration. Even AGING.
In order to cure Zombiism, the scientists released something far, far worse.
Okay, my favorite HC about how Tony survives his snap involves his nanotech. Tony didn't actively create the nanites to be sentient. But in the words of the Grandmaster, life finds a way. Somehow, exposed to Friday and Tony's other AIs, and existing within his literal heart, the nanites were on the verge of evolving into a new lifeform and when Tony snapped, the power surge from the infinity stones was the catalyst the nanites needed to bridge the gap from ultra advanced technology to sentient life. In an instant, Tony wasn't simply wearing armor, he was surrounded by millions (billions?) of newborn children that had the capacity to understand what was happening and made the collective decision to help their creator absorb and channel the power of the stones. Even their help wasn't enough to prevent all the harm that power can do to a mortal, and it burned out the brand new life of the nanites in the process. They knew the consequences of their choice and they made it anyway, because they were the child of Earth's Best Defender and how could they do anything but follow their father's example? So Tony survives, hurt, but alive, probably never realizing exactly what, or rather who, it was that saved him.
My new obsession is my Marvel OC named Dakota and mmmm I love hurting him!
Also trigger warning for gore, and talk of death/dying
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His fingers were slick with red as Dakota crumpled to the filthy floor of some warehouse. The spear had carved a clean path through him, through skin, muscle, everything. Hot blood poured from the chasm, seeping over his hand and between his knuckles.
It was deep.
Fuck, it was so deep.
Copper sat heavy on his tongue, lungs rattling with shallow breaths as warmth fled his body.
This was it.
Black dots swam in his vision, his head spinning, the world before him teetering on the edge as his body went limp.
How pathetic.
He was going to die and he'd never even been kissed. Never gone on a proper date, let alone have sex. God, why was he embarrassed that he was going to die a virgin?
He was dying.
He was dying and he would never see Stephanie again. She would get married and he wouldnt be there. His mom would still be stuck in that stupid, crumbling apartment because he couldn't help.
He should have done more.
The tips of his fingers felt numb, his eyes slipping further shut.
Would they find his body quickly?
Nobody cared about this warehouse so it would probably be days. Maybe even weeks. Until he started to stink to high heaven and then they would have to check.
Would they even be able to figure out who he was?
He never brought his ID with him, kinda defeated the purpose of a masked vigilante, but now he wish he had. The coroner would probably puzzle over his body, a nameless John Doe.
Dakota let his eyes slip fully shut, giving in to the weightless feeling of sleep.
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Nano-3D printed material as light as styrofoam, 5× stronger than titanium
image of the full nanolattice geometry (left), and an 18.75-million cell nanolattice floating on a soap bubble (right)
Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering have created nano-architected materials stronger than any solid material, but lighter than a feather.
In a new paper published in Advanced Materials, a team describes how they made dream nanomaterials with properties that offer a typically conflicting combination of exceptional strength, light weight, and customizability. The approach could be applied to a wide range of applications - automotive, architecture, aerospace, and much more.
Manufacturing technology like this will revolutionize the world - imagine being able to print out the strongest, lightest gear someone might need, on a moment's notice, to tackle any task [your character] might face. All they'd need is a 3D nano-printer (in this case, a two-photon polymerization type) in their workshop and the right printing materials (in this case, a form of carbon).
Nano-architected materials are made of tiny building blocks or repeating units measuring a few hundred nanometers in size - a human hair is more than 100× thicker than the lattice structures pictured above. These building blocks (in this case made of carbon) are arranged in complex 3D structures called nanolattices.
This is also the technology we've needed in order to begin building space elevators to get past expensive, dangerous rocket tech.
Study reveals genetic drivers of rapid freshwater adaptation in a wild fish - New Study
Unraveling the genetic mechanisms behind adaptive evolution stands as a pivotal challenge in molecular biology. While organisms often exhibit rapid phenotypic adjustments to environmental shifts, the underlying genomic processes remain poorly understood.
Summary
Understanding how organisms adapt to new environments through genetic changes is a major challenge in molecular biology. Organisms…
