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Aug 25, 2023

Neuroscience Breakthrough — New Images Capture Unseen Details of the Synapse

Posted by in categories: chemistry, neuroscience

Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D images of the synapse.

A synapse is a specialized junction between nerve cells that allows for the transfer of electrical or chemical signals, through the release of neurotransmitters by the presynaptic neuron and the binding of receptors on the postsynaptic neuron. It plays a key role in communication between neurons and in various physiological processes including perception, movement, and memory.

Aug 25, 2023

Quantum ‘yin-yang’ shows two photons being entangled in real-time

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

The stunning experiment, which reconstructs the properties of entangled photons from a 2D interference pattern, could be used to design faster quantum computers.

Aug 25, 2023

A map of every conceivable molecule could be possible with AI

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, robotics/AI

A map of all chemicals that places compounds with similar properties next to each other could speed up the process of discovery for everything from drugs to materials.

By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Aug 25, 2023

This Tech CEO Just Got $4.2 Billion Richer Overnight

Posted by in category: futurism

As Nvidia’s stock soars so does Jensen Huang’s personal fortune.

Aug 25, 2023

Zoom CEO reportedly badmouthed Zoom meetings in leaked call

Posted by in category: futurism

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan reportedly aired out his grievances about the product he founded, during a company meeting.

Aug 25, 2023

Elon Musk Sounds Mad About the Cybertruck Looking Sloppy in Leaked Email

Posted by in category: Elon Musk

Elon Musk reminded workers that defects on the Cybertruck “shows up like a sore thumb” and demanded tolerances in the “single digit microns.”

Aug 25, 2023

Guy Who Uses AI to Post as a Voluptuous Influencer: “I Usually Just Call Myself Her Manager”

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Natalia Novak is an AI influencer, who doesn’t exist. Her real-life “manager” likes to think of it as the ultimate form of self-expression.

Aug 25, 2023

Kids Who Are Always on iPads Missing Developmental Goals, Scientists Find

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, entertainment, mobile phones

Parents who limit their kids’ screen time, it seems, may be doing them a service: a new study has found that babies who spend a lot of time looking at iPads and other screens experience developmental delays.

Published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association of Pediatrics, this new research out of Japan suggests that watching screens may limit infants’ practicing of real-life motor skills that they glean from mimicking the people near them.

In a questionnaire, the parents of the more than 7,000 kids surveyed were asked a simple question: “On a typical day, how many hours do you allow your children to watch TV, DVDs, video games, internet games (including mobile phones and tablets), etc?”

Aug 25, 2023

Elon Musk Gives A Tour Of His Desk At Tesla HQ, Reveals Where He Sits At Work

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

Tesla Inc TSLA CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday spoke about his desk, or lack of it, at the company headquarters in Texas.

What Happened: Previously, Musk said, he would move his desk around the factory to wherever the biggest problem was. However, now, he doesn’t have a desk, the CEO said.

“These days, I don’t have a desk, but the room I use for meetings at HQ overlooks the Model Y end of line,” Musk wrote. He was responding to a fan on X.com who shared an old video of Musk showing his desk in the middle of the factory.

Aug 25, 2023

Attempt to Clean Up Space Junk Foiled When Cleanup Target Hit by Even More Space Junk

Posted by in category: space

The junk-on-junk collision created even more space junk, not to mention a headache for the scientists working on the ESA’s clean up mission.