Science is wonderful.

These are just some of the amazing discoveries of 2015.

You can be in two places at once.

Yes you can be in two places at once^[1], or be in two different states at the same time. Not just at the minute level of sub-atomic particles, which has been part of accepted theory for some time, but at a macro observable level.

I’m off to the pet shop to buy a Schrödinger’s Cat…

On second thoughts, an animal that is both alive and dead will want feeding whilst whiffing considerably. Better rethink this.

You can unboil an egg.

Scientists have returned the proteins in a hen’s egg that was boiled for 20 minutes to their original form^[2]. Impressive except that the process uses urea, a constituent or urine. So if you send back your breakfast boiled egg saying you want it poacked, do not then complain that it tastes of …

How to get ahead.

Get ahead, you need one, was a bumper sticker from the ’70s. Soon it could be true as scientists have made creatures grow the heads of other species^[3]. So far it is only flatworms, but you never know.

Expect more inventions that necessity was not parent to in 216.

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[1] http://www.livescience.com/53204-big-schrodinger-cats-created.html
[2] http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2015/jan/27/scientists-found-way-to-unboil-egg-proteins-cancer-research
[3] http://www.livescience.com/52905-franken-flatworms-grow-heads-brains-of-other-species.html