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Jan 18, 2025
NASA Discovered Planet Bigger Than Earth With a Gas That Is ‘Only Produced by Life’
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: alien life
What if a distant planet held the key to finding life beyond Earth? NASA’s discovery has scientists buzzing with curiosity.
This revelation might bring us closer to answering one of humanity’s biggest questions: Are we truly alone in the universe?
Jan 18, 2025
Virtual Cells and the AI Revolution: A Game-Changer for Research
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
Can artificial intelligence decode the secrets of life itself? Scientists are working on creating virtual cells that behave like real ones, potentially transforming medical research. But is this groundbreaking vision closer to reality—or still a distant dream?
Jan 18, 2025
Quantum-Prime Computing: How Prime Numbers Could Unlock New Paths for Brain, Mind, and Computation
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: computing, mathematics, neuroscience, quantum physics
Even so, many wonder: If the universe is at bottom deterministic (via stable laws of physics), how do these quantum-like phenomena arise, and could they show up in something as large and complex as the human brain?
Quantum-Prime Computing is a new theoretical framework offering a surprising twist: it posits that prime numbers — often celebrated as the “building blocks” of integers — can give rise to “quantum-like” behavior in a purely mathematical or classical environment. The kicker? This might not only shift how we view computation but also hint at new ways to understand the brain and the nature of consciousness.
Below, we explore why prime numbers are so special, how they can host quantum-like states, and what that might mean for free will, consciousness, and the future of computational science.
Jan 18, 2025
Exotic ‘Paraparticles’ That Defy Categorization May Exist in Many Dimensions
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, mathematics, particle physics, quantum physics
Theoretical physicists predict the existence of exotic “paraparticles” that defy classification and could have quantum computing applications.
By Davide Castelvecchi & Nature magazine
Theoretical physicists have proposed the existence of a new type of particle that doesn’t fit into the conventional classifications of fermions and bosons. Their ‘paraparticle’, described in Nature on January 8, is not the first to be suggested, but the detailed mathematical model characterizing it could lead to experiments in which it is created using a quantum computer. The research also suggests that undiscovered elementary paraparticles might exist in nature.
Jan 18, 2025
AI Or Not Raises $5 Million To Stop AI Fraud, Deepfakes, And Misinformation
Posted by Bruce Burke in categories: business, robotics/AI
In today’s AI news, AI or Not is on a mission to protect individuals and organizations from the risks of generative AI misuse. AI or Not, a widely covered AI fraud detection platform, has raised $5 million in a seed funding round to accelerate its use of “AI to detect AI” in images, audio video and deepfakes to prevent fraud and misinformation.
Layoffs And, AI media tech provider Runway has announced the release of Frames, its newest text-to-image generation model, and it’s winning early praise from users for producing highly cinematic visuals — a fitting compliment given Runway is known primarily as an AI video model provider. Could Frames dethrone Midjourney as the go-to choice?
In other advancements, ChatGPT maker OpenAI has finalized a version of its new reasoning AI model O3 mini and would be launching it in a couple of weeks, CEO Sam Altman said on Friday. The Microsoft-backed company has considered user feedback and, consequently, plans to release the API and ChatGPT simultaneously, Altman wrote.
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Jan 18, 2025
Precision Targeting of Senescent Cells
Posted by Arthur Brown in categories: life extension, nanotechnology
In a journal called Small, researchers have described a new targeting mechanism for delivering senolytic compounds where they need to go.
Finding the right nanoparticle.
Jan 18, 2025
Godfather of AI’ on AI “exceeding human intelligence” and it “trying to take over
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: physics, robotics/AI
When super intelligence happens technology will greatly advance we must merge with this technology.
The Nobel Prize winning ‘Godfather of AI’ speaks to Newsnight about the potential for AI “exceeding human intelligence” and it “trying to take over.”
Jan 18, 2025
800 hp in a circle box — Dark Matter engine changes the history of EVs
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: cosmology, engineering, particle physics, sustainability
Meet the Dark Matter, the groundbreaking electric motor powering Koenigsegg’s new Gemera hypercar. Officially known as the Dark Matter Raxial Flux 6-phase E-motor, this revolutionary piece of technology debuted at the 2023 Goodwood Festival of Speed. Boasting an impressive 800 horsepower and 922 lb-ft of torque, while weighing just 40kg, the Dark Matter is hailed as the world’s most powerful automotive-grade electric motor. With its unique six-phase technology, it marks a major leap forward in electric vehicle engineering, surpassing the three-phase motors commonly used in most electric vehicles today.
The Dark Matter electric motor is considered the world’s most powerful automotive-grade motor, using a unique six-phase technology. This motor is a significant improvement over the three-phase motors commonly used in most electric vehicles today. The Dark Matter replaces the previous motor used in the Gemera, called the Quark.
Both the Quark and the Dark Matter are “raxial flux” motors, which combine features of two common types of electric motors: radial flux and axial flux. Radial flux motors offer more power but less torque, while axial flux motors are known for providing high torque but with less power. The key difference between these two designs is how the magnetic field travels through the motor. In a radial flux motor, the magnetic field path is longer, creating more power. In an axial flux motor, the magnetic field follows a shorter, more direct path, giving the motor more torque.
Jan 18, 2025
Study Identifies a New Target for Cancer Immunotherapy
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: biotech/medical
Immunotherapy, cancer treatments that alter the immune system, making it better apt to fight tumor cells, have provided novel and efficacious therapeutic options for patients with advanced, difficult-to-treat malignancies. Many immune-based therapies work to boost immune mediators within the tumor microenvironment, and others can prime immune cells circulating through the body.
A groundbreaking study published in Cancer Cell brings us closer to achieving the best of both worlds. The novel data describing this comprehensive study suggests that we can achieve better efficacy with an immunotherapy that optimizes the immune response both inside the tumor (intratumoral immunity) and throughout the rest of the body (systemic immunity).
The researchers identified an enzyme (P4HA1) that is pivotal in directing immunotherapy effectiveness. P4HA1 regulates the differentiation of CD8+ T cells, a vital immune cell subset needed for finding and killing cancer. The study found that P4HA1 significantly upregulated the tumor-draining lymph nodes (TDLN), the lymph nodes located directly downstream of a tumor where immune cells, and sometimes cancer cells, drain out of the tumor.