“Hidden Breakthroughs: 69 Scientific Marvels That Shocked Experts but Were Ignored by the World”
And we just… shrugged?
This has massive implications from understanding infections to rethinking antibiotics to designing new bioengineered systems. It’s like realizing ants build cities… but on a *molecular* scale.
The digital camera which was invented by an engineer in Kodak. Kodak wanted to keep things traditional and brushed off his invention.
The solid state transistor, what was once the size of a light bulb is now in nanometers and there are billions of them in a single PC processor smaller than a postage stamp.
In the last couple of years they discovered an algae that had non-lethally absorbed a bacteria that produced nitrogen. It’s the birth of a whole new form of metabolism. The sprouting of a new trunk on the tree of life.
There are only 3 other known cases of an event like this in the history of life. And yet I barely heard anything about it.
The Japanese plastic eating bacteria got more coverage, but still not nearly enough.
There is a promising new treatment device for tinnitus (developed by u Michigan) that is waiting for FDA approval, really can’t wait.
My mind went off in another direction.
Judging by all of the hype, we were supposed to be blown away by the invention of the century that would change all of human kind…come to find out it wasn’t all humankind, just mall security…
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