So some things in science blow me away to the point where I think about them very often and how they may affect our lives.
The first is a concept called Horizontal gene transfer. This craziness came to my attention after a professor brought it up in a side tangent a few years back. Scientist have found that bacteria and viruses are able to "take up" portions of DNA and incorporate them into there own DNA. This complete changes the way we look at inheritance and evolution even though it may just happen at the micro biotic level.
The second concept is
Quantum entanglement. I read about this phenomenon in Discover magazine's Top 100 Science stories of 2008. This is when two electrons or photons are "linked" to each other no matter how far the distance and will exhibit the exact same occurrences at the exact same time. The article I read was about an experiment done by Swiss scientist with photons separated by 11 miles and they responded instantaneously. Here's a video that might be a little kiddish and bias towards the concept they're trying to push but it gets the point across.
http://www.livevideo.com/video/Smokescreen/4BEF339F994E45DAA500EAD6E6325CFE/quantum-entanglement.aspx
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