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A team of researchers says they have created the most water-repellent surface ever, challenging existing ideas about how friction works. Known as a self-assembled monolayer (SAM), the ingenious new surface, which is assembled at the molecular level, has the potential to impact hundreds of commercial and industrial applications, including de-icing techniques, maritime technologies, space exploration, and even ultra-slippery cookware.

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[-] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 101 points 9 months ago

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-023-01346-3

Nature article.

It should be punishable by fine for science journalists to write about a science paper without citing the paper — I couldn’t find it linked anywhere in the article but do have some content blockers so perhaps it was just hidden by those. At any rate, interesting findings.

[-] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

The ghost of Carl Sagan should visit the article's author and treat him or her to an evening à la Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

[-] incendiaryperihelion@lemm.ee 39 points 9 months ago

it's literally impossible to read an article that isnt spam bombed with ads and bullshit now, isnt it

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago

Yeah it's crazy, but not as crazy as the low low prices I can offer you on my products! Would you like to consume product my guy?

[-] incendiaryperihelion@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

I'll only pay for products that will help me with my oral fixation wink wink

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Say no more fam. I stock the best dental products money can buy.

[-] moody@lemmings.world 27 points 9 months ago

I've been using ad blockers for so long that I almost forget ads even exist. Then I read comments like this, and wonder how anyone can browse the internet without one. I remember what it was like before I used them, and I know that it's gotten much worse since then.

[-] incendiaryperihelion@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

I use adblock on my pc but what am I to do mid poopage?

[-] moody@lemmings.world 22 points 9 months ago

Firefox on Android works with standard Firefox extensions, uBlock Origin included.

[-] incendiaryperihelion@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago
[-] moody@lemmings.world 4 points 9 months ago

If you don't have another active VPN, I believe Blokada has an ios version and blocks ads device-wide.

[-] incendiaryperihelion@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

hell yes thank you

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago

maybe someting to consider the next time you buy a phone, eh?

[-] incendiaryperihelion@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

note to self in fifteen years

[-] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

And even better: Mull (based on Firefox) + uBlock Origin

[-] incendiaryperihelion@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago
[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

Yup, it's a fork of firefox mobile with pretty much all of the bullshit gone, plus some of the more useful stuff turned on.

Can't get it in the play store though, have to go through either fdroid, or whatever the place is they host it (I use fdroid, so I have no clue where you'd get it otherwise).

[-] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Perfect answer. It is hosted in Gitlab, but i'm not sure you can download an APK there.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

There are ad blockers on both iOS and Android, you should check it out. Helps with battery and security as well

[-] devfuuu@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I know tech literate people that don't use one and it drives me crazy up to walls when I see them use the internet.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

With ublock and pihole I'm like "what ads?"

[-] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Do a Google search for the article you want to read. Iirc it's right click on ellipses and then view cached page. That should just get you text only.

[-] Swim@lemmy.ca 36 points 9 months ago

aaaaaaaaand it causes cancers and forever chemicals

[-] set_secret@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

definitely sounds like something that could give us a good poisoning. the fact it rubs off so easily doesn't bode well.

[-] grasshopper@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Well, at least they used silane instead of PFAS.

[-] sebinspace@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Lmao what the hell is that illustration?

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Water drops on some models of atoms [not to scale]

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