Yeast already has a natural ability to flocculate, differing by strain. All they did is use artificial selection to produce a new strain of yeast with higher flocculation. The article mentions that yeast evolved from a multicellular life form and that the next experiment will use single celled organisms which did not evolve this way. I suspect it will take much longer than 60 days to see any results.

Making a sphere out of this should be no different than making any type of black colored sphere. The light is converted to heat and the sphere warms up. If the heat is allowed to slowly escape, then equilibrium is reached. Otherwise, the sphere melts and potentially destroys its heat absorbing properties. Or the liquid sphere radiates heat away. In a black hole, heat cannot escape at all.

Oracle has posted a fix for the bug, in the form of a patch. Official releases will be available next week. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/fpupdater-tool-readme-305936.html http://blogs.oracle.com/security/2011/02/security_alert_for_cve-2010-44.html

A much larger and cooler collection of physics applets can be found at http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html

The keys have the usual 3/4 inch spacing, but the width of the keycap on a "normal" or laptop keyboard is about 1/2 inch. Atari ST was about 5/8 inch.