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Jan 3, 2024

What a Fusion Energy Breakthrough Means for Green Power

Posted by in categories: innovation, nuclear energy

Four times now, researchers have produced a fleeting burst of fusion energy, an encouraging sign for making this zero-carbon energy source a reality.

Jan 3, 2024

Synthetic biology breakthrough fixes CO2 from the air better than nature

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biological, chemistry, sustainability

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute have developed a synthetic pathway that can capture CO2 from the air more efficiently than in nature, and shown how to implement it into living bacteria. The technique could help make biofuels and other products in a sustainable way.

Plants are famous for their ability to convert carbon dioxide from the air into chemical energy to fuel their growth. With way too much CO2 in the atmosphere already and more being blasted out every day, it’s no wonder scientists are turning to this natural process to help rein levels back in, while producing fuels and other useful molecules on the side.

In the new study, Max Planck scientists developed a brand new CO2-fixation pathway that works even better than nature’s own tried-and-true method. They call it the THETA cycle, and it uses 17 different biocatalysts to produce a molecule called acetyl-CoA, which is a key building block in a range of biofuels, materials and pharmaceuticals.

Jan 3, 2024

NASA’s most high-risk endeavor in decades and other boundary-pushing space missions planned for 2024

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space

From robotic lunar landers perusing the surface to an astronaut flyby, 2024 could be the year NASA makes its big return to the moon.

Jan 3, 2024

Rocket Lab Wins $515M Spacecraft Contract

Posted by in categories: business, space travel

Rocket Lab’s ($RKLB) space systems business got a major boost just before the year drew to a close.

Jan 3, 2024

Why the Universe might be a Hologram

Posted by in categories: holograms, quantum physics

A quarter century ago, physicist Juan Maldacena proposed the AdS/CFT correspondence, an intriguing holographic connection between gravity in a three-dimensional universe and quantum physics on the universe’s two-dimensional boundary. This correspondence is at this stage, even a quarter century after Maldacena’s discovery, just a conjecture.

A statement about the nature of the universe that seems to be true, but one that has not yet been proven to actually reflect the reality that we live in. And what’s more, it only has limited utility and application to the real universe.

Still, even the mere appearance of the correspondence is more than suggestive. It’s telling that there is something deeply fundamental to the hologram, that the physics of the volume of the universe might just translate to the physics on the surface, and that there is more to be learned there.

Jan 3, 2024

Algae as a Surprising Meat Alternative and Source of Environmentally Friendly Protein

Posted by in categories: food, sustainability

With more of us looking for alternatives to eating animals, new research has found a surprising environmentally friendly source of protein – algae.

The University of Exeter study has been published in The Journal of Nutrition and is the first of its kind to demonstrate that the ingestion of two of the most commercially available algal species are rich in protein which supports muscle remodeling in young healthy adults. Their findings suggest that algae may be an interesting and sustainable alternative to animal-derived protein with respect to maintaining and building muscle.

Researcher Ino Van Der Heijden from the University of Exeter said: “Our work has shown algae could become part of a secure and sustainable food future. With more and more people trying to eat less meat because of ethical and environmental reasons, there is growing interest in nonanimal-derived and sustainably produced protein. We believe it’s important and necessary to start looking into these alternatives and we’ve identified algae as a promising novel protein source.”

Jan 3, 2024

Cholesterol: Animal study tests vaccine to lower LDL cholesterol

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

In a recent study in mice, researchers have experimented with a potential vaccine that might help lower levels of bad cholesterol.

Jan 3, 2024

Researchers create first functional semiconductor made from graphene

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created the world’s first functional semiconductor made from graphene, a single sheet of carbon atoms held together by the strongest bonds known. Semiconductors, which are materials that conduct electricity under specific conditions, are foundational components of electronic devices. The team’s breakthrough throws open the door to a new way of doing electronics.

Their discovery comes at a time when , the material from which nearly all modern electronics are made, is reaching its limit in the face of increasingly faster computing and smaller electronic devices.

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Jan 3, 2024

There are certain ancient Egyptian texts from long before Set of Avaris and his later monotheist avatars (Aten, Jehovah, Allah) known as Resurrection texts‘

Posted by in category: futurism

This track by multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, Prof Steve Nichols, is inspired by Utterance 437 from the Old Kingdom Egyptian Pyramid Texts.\

http://vevo.ly/jBYYkg

Jan 3, 2024

Elon Musk’s Starlink Launches First-Ever Cell Service Satellites—Here’s What To Know And What Mobile Phone Carrier Gets It First

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, mobile phones, satellites

Starlink will test its Direct to Cell service in the U.S.

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