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Feb 7, 2024

Anticoagulants fail to prevent unexplained strokes, clinical trial finds

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

A common practice of prescribing anticoagulants to people who have had unexplained strokes should stop, according to a study led by researchers at Columbia, Weill Cornell Medicine, and the University of Washington and published in JAMA.

Anticoagulants were thought to prevent additional strokes in people whose initial stroke has an unknown cause but who have a heart condition, atrial cardiopathy, that resembles atrial fibrillation, a common cause of stroke.

“We know these drugs work for people with atrial fibrillation, so we thought that they would probably work for people with atrial cardiopathy as well,” says Mitchell Elkind, MD, professor of neurology at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and one of the study’s leaders. “That was the basis for the trial.”

Feb 7, 2024

Topological Excitations in Neutral–Ionic Transition Systems

Posted by in category: futurism

The existence and physical properties of topological excitations in ferroelectrics, especially mobile topological boundaries in one dimension, are of profound interest. Notably, topological excitations emerging in association with the neutral–ionic (NI) phase transition are theoretically suggested to carry fractional charges and cause anomalous charge transport. In recent years, we experimentally demonstrated mobile topological excitations in a quasi-one-dimensional (1D) ferroelectric, tetrathiafulvalene-p-chloranil[TTF-CA; TTF (C6H4S4) and CA (C6Cl4O2)], which shows the NI transition, using NMR, NQR, and electrical resistivity measurements. Thermally activated topological excitations carry charges and spins in the NI crossover region and in the ionic phase with a dimer liquid.

Feb 7, 2024

Self-Discover: Large Language Models Self-Compose Reasoning Structures

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Google Deepmind presents Self-Discover.

Large language models self-compose reasoning structures.


Join the discussion on this paper page.

Feb 7, 2024

Research team takes a fundamental step toward a functioning quantum internet

Posted by in categories: computing, internet, mathematics, quantum physics

Hong-Ou-Mandel interference of single-#photon-level pulses stored in independent room-temperature #quantum #memories Quantum #repeater #networks require independent absorptive quantum memories capable of #storing and #retrieving indistinguishable photons to perform high-repetition entanglement…


Research with quantum computing and quantum networks is taking place around the world in the hopes of developing a quantum internet in the future. A quantum internet would be a network of quantum computers, sensors, and communication devices that will create, process, and transmit quantum states and entanglement and is anticipated to enhance society’s internet system and provide certain services and securities that the current internet does not have.

A team of Stony Brook University physicists and their collaborators have taken a significant step toward the building of a testbed by demonstrating a foundational quantum network measurement that employs room-temperature . Their findings are described in a paper published in npj Quantum Information.

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Feb 7, 2024

Cern aims to build €20bn collider to unlock secrets of universe

Posted by in category: futurism

Research lab submits plans for next-generation model at least three times size of Large Hadron Collider.

Feb 7, 2024

Lucid Dreaming Breakthrough Achieved as Researchers Report Successful Control of a Virtual Object While Sleeping

Posted by in category: innovation

The first two-way control of a virtual object by study participants while lucid dreaming has been documented, according to the findings of a new research effort.

Researchers with REMspace, a California startup, report that five participants in the recent study were successfully able to control a virtual Cybertruck while lucid dreaming, and even avoid obstacles that appeared on a screen.

Multitasking While Dreaming

Feb 7, 2024

First passages of rolled-up Herculaneum scroll revealed

Posted by in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI

Researchers used artificial intelligence to decipher the text of 2,000-year-old charred papyrus scripts, unveiling musings on music and capers.

Feb 7, 2024

Ecstadelic GPT: Navigating the Frontiers of Mind, Technology, and Future

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, life extension, robotics/AI, transhumanism

Ecstadelic GPT, powered by GPT-4, is pioneering the frontier of AI-assisted understanding of Biohacking, Anti-Aging, Superlongevity, Wellness, Technohedonism, SuperWellbeing, Personal Development, Self-Transcendence, Transhumanism.

Feb 7, 2024

Gut microbiota’s impact: linking neonatal jaundice and IBD through bilirubin processing

Posted by in category: futurism

The low amount of bacteria from the gut microbiota able to process bilirubin, a product of heme degradation, during the neonatal period of life suggests a strong connection between the microbiome composition and development of jaundice in infants. In other words, the lack of certain bacteria in the gut of infants seems to be linked to the risk of developing jaundice.

Feb 7, 2024

Bill Gates’ TerraPower joins shipbuilders for nuclear-powered ships

Posted by in category: nuclear energy

Core Power, HD Hyundai, TerraPower, and Southern Company collaborate on nuclear power for shipping, focusing on small modular reactor (SMR) technology.

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