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This site could use a rule: if the original paper is open, don’t post the phys.org pie-eyed futurist clickbait digest of it. https://www.nature.com/articles/s4
by IntronExon 9y ago
This site could use a rule: if the original paper is open, don’t post the phys.org pie-eyed futurist clickbait digest of it.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02549-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02549-2
Walking and rolling of crystals induced thermally by phase transition
- ghostly_s 9y agoOf course without the click-baity headline, is it really that interesting? Cool idea, but going from a crystal twitching in a petri dish to crystal robots will take decades of work.
- IntronExon 9y agoI agree, and that sort of sounds like the definition; of clickbait, no?
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoThe line "This finding of the crystal locomotion can lead to a field of crystal robotics" is in the original paper's abstract.
- sctb 9y agoOK, we've updated the link from https://phys.org/news/2018-02-crystals-field-crystal-robotics.html https://phys.org/news/2018-02-crystals-field-crystal-robotic....
- tw1010 9y agoWell, it made a lot more sense why the original article was exciting. The updated article, with all due respect, is hard to parse for a non-expert.
- IntronExon 9y agoI love you guys. You’re fast and efficient, responsive and polite. Champions.
- detaro 9y agoYou mean a rule like > Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. ?
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoThe "new field of crystal robotics" bit comes directly from the original paper's abstract, and from an interview quote in the article with the head researcher. The article itself is a perfectly reasonable summary for non-physicists. I don't see what the problem is.