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Texas A&M is the No. 1 public university for Fortune 500 CEOs: report
There are more Aggies running Fortune 500 companies than any other university in the state, according to a new investment analyst report.
Auroras forecast over US as solar storm gets special fall boost
A coronal mass ejection from the sun is expected to trigger a G3 geomagnetic storm, causing the northern lights.
SoftBank’s Son Envisions AI Running Households in Next Few Years
SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son sketched out one of the most aggressive timelines for the adoption of artificial intelligence yet, envisioning a near future where the technology would run entire households.
Chronic stimulation desensitizes β2‐adrenergic receptor responses in natural killer cells
Adrenergic receptors (ARs) are preferentially expressed by innate lymphocytes such as natural killer (NK) cells.
Here, we study the effect of epinephrine-mediated stimulation of the β2-adrenergic receptor (β2AR) on the function of human NK cells.
β2-Adrenergic receptor stimulation inhibits NK cell activation. (A) β2-Adrenergic receptor expression analysis of PBMCs by flow cytometry (n = 8). Subsets were assigned according to the following markers: B cells (CD19+), NK cells (CD56+, CD3−), CD56 dim (CD56dim, CD3−), CD56 bright (CD56bright, CD3−), NK-T cells (CD56+, CD3+), T cells (CD3+), and monocytes (FSC/SSC). (B) Representative β2-adrenergic receptor (β2AR) expression histograms of freshly isolated or cultured NK cells. © IFNγ secretion of fresh NK cells (top) or cultured NK cells (bottom). NK cells were pretreated with epinephrine ± propranolol (each 1 µM) and stimulated for 5 h by plate-bound antibodies as indicated. Supernatant was analyzed by IFNγ ELISA (mean, n = 3). (D) Degranulation of fresh NK cells (top) or cultured NK cells (bottom) was analyzed by CD107a expression. NK cells were pretreated and stimulated (3 h) like in ©, (mean, n = 3). Statistical analysis in © and (D) was performed using two-way ANOVA test, **** p < 0.0001; *** p < 0.001; ** p < 0.01; control set to 100%).
This Glow-In-The-Dark Crystal Is A Dazzling World-First
I refer to it as sculpting with light.
Researchers refute the validity of ‘assembly theory of everything’ hypothesis
Three new papers refute claims for the assembly theory of molecular complexity being claimed as a new “theory of everything.”
Attosecond electron microscopy and diffraction
Sci. Adv. 10, eadp5805 (2024). DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adp5805
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Scientists finally think they know where the most dangerous part of this US earthquake zone is and it’s bad news for Washington
Scientists just released the first comprehensive survey of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, the most dangerous earthquake-producing fault in the US.
Scientists demonstrate advanced low-coherence BOCDR system using periodic pseudo-random modulation
Their research is published in the Journal of Lightwave Technology.
“We tackled the persistent issue of balancing spatial resolution and measurement range in our original fiber-optic distributed strain sensing technique called BOCDR,” said Associate Professor Yosuke Mizuno of Yokohama National University. “Our purpose was to develop a more efficient system that overcomes this trade-off without relying on complex components like variable delay lines.”
The conventional BOCDR technique offers advantages such as operation with light injection from one end of the sensing fiber, relatively high spatial resolution, and random-access capability to sensing points. However, it also faces trade-offs between spatial resolution and measurement range. Previous efforts to mitigate this issue have included special schemes, such as temporal gating, double modulation, and chirp modulation.









