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Sep 23, 2024

New results from the CMS experiment put W boson mass mystery to rest

Posted by in category: particle physics

After an unexpected measurement by the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) experiment in 2022, physicists on the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment (CMS) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced today a new mass measurement of the W boson, one of nature’s force-carrying particles.

Sep 23, 2024

New measurement of the top quark from LHC data

Posted by in category: particle physics

Researchers from the School of Physics & Astronomy have been involved in an important new measurement of the top quark made using data provided by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Sep 23, 2024

[Part 1] Inside the Loop: Decoding the Mystery of Self-Awareness in Cognitive Systems

Posted by in category: neuroscience

“The only journey is the one within”

Rainer Maria Rilke

Feedback loops within a system can generate seemingly contradictory or paradoxical relationships. A cognitive system might have an internal model of its mental processes, which influences its decision-making and behavior. This internal model then becomes part of the system’s overall state, creating a recursive loop where the system’s representation of itself affects its own behavior.

Sep 22, 2024

Primordial Dark Energy: Solving Astronomy’s Biggest Mysteries

Posted by in category: cosmology

Discover how primordial dark energy could unravel astronomy’s greatest puzzles—from the Hubble tension to early galaxy formation—with FreeAstroScience.

Sep 22, 2024

Reversing the aging clock: A tiny plant protein holds the secret

Posted by in categories: futurism, life extension

Scientists may have unlocked anti-aging secrets by studying a plant cell organelle:


Research team stumble upon new discovery which potentially holds the key to aging in plants. Click here to find out what this means for the future.

Sep 22, 2024

EA Looking to Use AI to Take User-Generated Content to the Next Level

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

I expect this around 2029/2030, so about 5-ish years. Phase 1 of it will be: hey Ai, i didnt really like that level, mission, story line, etc… edits on the fly. Phase 2 of it will be creating DLC on the fly. And, Phase 3 will be just telling an AI roughly what you want to play, and it tries to build it.


Publishing giant Electronic Arts shows a concept of the different ways users could generate their own content in a game using generative AI.

Sep 22, 2024

A 150-Year Flight to a New Earth | Sci-Fi Documentary 4K | ReYOUniverse

Posted by in categories: cosmology, education, media & arts

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Sep 22, 2024

MIT engineers’ revolutionize the design and operation of wind farms

Posted by in category: sustainability

Engineers have long known that traditional aerodynamics models, used to design the blades of wind turbines and propellers, don’t account for certain real-world conditions. Though these formulas, established over a century ago, work well in basic scenarios, they falter when applied to high forces, extreme speeds, or complex angles. This has led engi…

Sep 22, 2024

Autonomous robot replaces human fusion reactor inspectors in world-first trial

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, robotics/AI

What just happened? Researchers have successfully deployed a fully autonomous robot to inspect the inside of a nuclear fusion reactor. This achievement – the first of its kind – took place over 35 days as part of trials at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Joint European Torus facility.

JET was one of the world’s largest and most powerful operational fusion reactors until it was recently shut down. Meanwhile, the robotic star of the show was, of course, the four-legged Spot robot from Boston Dynamics, souped up with “localization and mission autonomy solutions” from the Oxford Robotics Institute (ORI) and “inspection payload” from UKAEA.

Spot roamed JET’s environment twice daily, using sensors to map the facility layout, monitor conditions, steer around obstacles and personnel, and collect vital data. These inspection duties normally require human operators to control the robot remotely.

Sep 22, 2024

Even the heaviest particles experience the usual quantum weirdness, new experiment shows

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

One of the most surprising predictions of physics is entanglement, a phenomenon where objects can be some distance apart but still linked together. The best-known examples of entanglement involve tiny chunks of light (photons), and low energies.

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