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May 12, 2024

AI and Physics Combine to Reveal the 3D Structure of a Flare Erupting around a Black Hole

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics, robotics/AI

Scientists believe the environment immediately surrounding a black hole is tumultuous, featuring hot magnetized gas that spirals in a disk at tremendous speeds and temperatures. Astronomical observations show that within such a disk, mysterious flares occur up to several times a day, temporarily brightening and then fading away.

Now a team led by Caltech scientists has used telescope data and an artificial intelligence (AI) computer-vision technique to recover the first three-dimensional video showing what such flares could look like around SagittariusA* (Sgr A the supermassive black hole at the heart of our own Milky Way galaxy.

The 3D flare structure features two bright, compact features located about 75 million kilometers (or half the distance between Earth and the sun) from the center of the black hole. It is based on data collected by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile over a period of 100 minutes directly after an eruption seen in Xray data on April 11, 2017.

May 12, 2024

Signs of Multiple Sclerosis show up in Blood Years Before Symptoms, study finds

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

In a discovery that could hasten treatment for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), UC San Francisco scientists have discovered a harbinger in the blood of some people who later went on to develop the disease.

In about 1 in 10 cases of MS, the body begins producing a distinctive set of antibodies against its own proteins years before symptoms emerge. These autoantibodies appear to bind to both human cells and common pathogens, possibly explaining the immune attacks on the brain and spinal cord that are the hallmark of MS.

The findings were published in Nature Medicine on April 19.

May 12, 2024

Tags: Compact Quantum Light Processing — A leap forward in optical quantum computing, optical quantum computing, spatial encoding

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics

An international collaboration of researchers, led by Philip Walther at University of Vienna, have achieved a significant breakthrough in quantum technology, with the successful demonstration of quantum interference among several single photons using a novel resource-efficient platform. The work published in the journal Science Advances represents a notable advancement in optical quantum computing that paves the way for more scalable quantum technologies.

Interference among photons, a fundamental phenomenon in quantum optics, serves as a cornerstone of optical quantum computing.

It involves harnessing the properties of light, such as its wave-particle duality, to induce interference patterns, enabling the encoding and processing of quantum information.

May 12, 2024

Brain Really Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds

Posted by in categories: biological, neuroscience, open access, quantum physics

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When Roger Penrose originally came out with the idea that the human brain uses quantum effects in microtubules and that was the origin of consciousness, many thought the idea was a little crazy. According to a new study, it turns out that Penrose was actually right… about the microtubules anyways. Let’s have a look.

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May 12, 2024

Giant Structure Lurking in Deep Space Challenges Our Understanding of The Universe

Posted by in categories: cosmology, space travel

A colossal structure in the distant Universe is defying our understanding of how the Universe evolved.

In light that has traveled for 6.9 billion years to reach us, astronomers have found a giant, almost perfect ring of galaxies, some 1.3 billion light-years in diameter. It doesn’t match any known structure or formation mechanism.

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May 12, 2024

16.1y Younger Biological Age (Blood Test #3 In 2024, Test #51 Since 2015)

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension

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May 12, 2024

Mehmood Khaan of Hevolution delivery a powerful speech on Longevity at RSS 2024 in Berlin

Posted by in category: life extension

Mehmood Khaan opening the Rejuvenation Startup Summit with an outstanding speech on the state of longevity and the groundbreaking work that Hevolution is doing in funding scientists around the globe.

With the Rejuvenation Startup Summit in Berlin the Forever Healthy Foundation produced a great platform for founders and investors to meet and learn from and about eachother.

May 12, 2024

Google helped make an exquisitely detailed map of a tiny piece of the human brain

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

A small brain sample was sliced into 5,000 pieces, and machine learning helped stitch it back together.

May 12, 2024

Google DeepMind’s new AlphaFold can model a much larger slice of biological life

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

AlphaFold 3 can predict how DNA, RNA, and other molecules interact, further cementing its leading role in drug discovery and research. Who will benefit?

May 12, 2024

Ava Amini Of Microsoft Shows Us A New Context For Biology AI

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

Sometimes when you’re considering how to bring the power of AI to a clinical context, it sort of takes a new way of thinking to get inspired about what’s possible.

I was thinking about this the other day, inspired by some people who have been working hard on genomics, oncology research, and other types of biological and anatomical applications. There’s so much of it, suddenly, especially at these institutions that I’m so close to – to call it a “revolution” in my view, isn’t hyperbolic.

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