Liquid crystals can be coaxed into hosting an easily reconfigurable lattice of vortices useful for information encoding.
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Unregulated Anchoring Threatens Fragile Antarctic Ecosystems
How can ship anchors affect Antarctic ecosystems? This is what a recent study published in Frontiers in Conservation Science hopes to address as an interna | Earth And The Environment
CNTD1 is crucial for crossover formation in female meiosis and for establishing the ovarian reserve
Studies described in this manuscript show that cyclin N-terminal domain containing 1 (CNTD1) is a critical regulator of crossover formation during prophase
“Plasma Chaos Finally Cracked”: This New Tech Unveils the Hidden Turbulence Threatening the Future of Nuclear Fusion
IN A NUTSHELL 🔬 Japanese scientists have developed a groundbreaking technique using quantum mechanics to analyze plasma turbulence. 📊 The new method, called multi-field singular value decomposition, provides clearer insights into the interactions within fusion plasmas. 🌊 The research has implications beyond plasma physics, potentially impacting fields like weather dynamics and social systems. 🔍 By
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Ilya Sutskever, U of T honorary degree recipient, June 6, 2025
From co-authoring seminal research papers to co-founding the research organization that developed ChatGPT, few people have been as influential in shaping the…
The NLRP3 inflammasome in microglia regulates repetitive behavior by modulating NMDA glutamate receptor functions
In this study, Jung et al. investigate the effect of excessive NLRP3-mediated neuroinflammation on synaptic functions and behaviors using Nlrp3D301N-conditional knockin mice. Strikingly, excessive NLRP3-mediated neuroinflammation causes NMDAR hyperactivation, leading to abnormal behaviors. Treatment with IL-1β receptor antagonist (IL-1RA) or NMDAR antagonist reverses the pathological phenotypes.
Evidence of dark oxygen production at the abyssal seafloor
Oxygen is generated abiotically at the abyssal seafloor in the presence of polymetallic nodules, potentially by seawater electrolysis, according to in situ chamber and ex situ incubation experiments.
Astronomers thought the Milky Way was doomed to crash into Andromeda. Now they’re not so sure
For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbor. This merger—expected in about 5 billion years—has become a staple of astronomy documentaries, textbooks and popular science writing.
But in our new study published in Nature Astronomy, led by Till Sawala from the University of Helsinki, we find the Milky Way’s future might not be as certain previously assumed.
By carefully accounting for uncertainties in existing measurements, and including the gravitational influence of other nearby galaxies, we found there is only about a 50% chance the Milky Way and Andromeda will merge in the next 10 billion years.
Langton’s Ants and Turing Machines
Ant Simulator: https://evolvecode.io/turmites/index.html.
Source code: https://github.com/MaxRobinsonTheGreat/turmites.
This is a video about Langton’s ants, turmites, and turing machines. On and on and on it goes, will it halt? Nobody knows.
~ LINKS ~
Pezzza’s Ant Sim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTHpEF_jcu4
Discord (see langtons-ants channel) https://discord.com/invite/GZWd2qySce.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emergentgarden.
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/emergentgarden.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/max_romana.
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/emergentgarden.bsky.social.
~Timestamps~
(0:00) Langton’s Ants.
(3:32) Turmites.
(7:26) Emergent Patterns.
(10:13) Busy Beavers.
(11:56) Evolving Ants?