• quixotic120@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    “massaging tartrazine solution into hairless mouse skin over the course of a few minutes or using microneedling achieves “complete optical transparency in the red region of the visible spectrum”

    I know it didn’t happen this way but I like to believe it was someone having their unwashed dorito fingers after lunch, decided to massage a mouse for several minutes, and figuring this out

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      3 months ago

      No that’s probably exactly what happened. Most discoveries happen serendipitously.

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      3 months ago

      Sounds like a masturbation injury if I’ve ever heard of one, the mouse is clearly a cover

      • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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        3 months ago

        A scientist frantically looking for something to rub dorito dust on, before everyone else get into the lab the next morning.