Oldest Beer / Unboiling an Egg
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It's an extraordinary story of adventure and misadventure, salvage and science as an Australian team of scientific treasure hunters attempt to achieve a world first. Can they revive an extinct brewer's yeast found in a salvaged bottle of shipwreck beer, cultivate it, and use it to brew beer? Also, you can't unboil an egg, right? Wrong! Scientists from Flinders University in SA won an Ig Nobel Prize for successfully unboiling an egg. The technology, called the Vortex Fluidic Device, is now being used in research to make new biodiesels, and for cutting carbon nanotubes that can be used in ever-smaller solar cells.
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27 min 2 sec
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