day 1809: cryogenic

Chinese laboratories contain some of the most advanced kit, from supercomputers and ultra-high-energy detectors to cryogenic electron microscopes.

How worrying is the rapid rise of Chinese science?

Artwork of the day 
BEUL (BEAULIEU). LOW WET SANDS AND SEA, HIGH SAND HILLS BEYOND and TEMPLE, DARK BLUE SEA AND SKY (A PAIR)
Nathaniel Hone the Younger
Style: Realism,Impressionism
Genre: marina

Word of the day 
cryogenic: related to the scientific study of very low temperatures and how to produce them:

Quote of the day
“Finney’s bitcoin stash is now funding the cryogenic freezing of his body at a facility in Arizona, all in the hope he might one day be revived if and when ALS is eradicated.”

― Paul Vigna, The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order