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Jul 12, 2024

What flavor is that neutrino? Adding flavor helps to track neutrino movement in astrophysical systems

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics, space

Neutrinos have a quantum mechanical property called “flavor.” This flavor can transform as neutrinos move through space. A major challenge is to keep track of both the physical movement of the neutrinos and their change of flavor in astrophysical systems such as core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers. The complicated arrangement and large number of neutrinos in these systems make it nearly impossible to follow all or even a subset of the neutrinos.

Jul 12, 2024

Scientists find new way global air churn makes particles

Posted by in categories: chemistry, climatology, particle physics

You can think of our atmosphere as a big chemistry set, a global churn of gaseous molecules and particles that constantly bounce off and change each other in complicated ways. While the particles are very small, often less than 1% of the thickness of human hair, they have outsized impacts. For example, particles are the seeds of cloud droplets, and the abundance of the particles changes the reflectivity and the amount of clouds, rainfall and climate.

Jul 12, 2024

China: Quantum tech cracks subatomic code, beats supercomputers

Posted by in categories: energy, quantum physics, supercomputing

A Chinese research team has achieved a significant milestone in quantum computing by successfully building a device that can simulate the movement of electrons within a solid-state material.

This research, published in the journal Nature, showcases the potential of quantum computers to surpass even the most powerful supercomputers.

Understanding electron behavior is crucial for scientific advancements, particularly in the fields of magnetism and high-temperature superconducting materials. These materials could revolutionize electricity transmission and transportation, leading to significant energy savings and technological progress.

Jul 12, 2024

Woman given three months to live after a cancer diagnosis is stunned to hear she is now in remission

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

In June 2019, a doctor in Spain dismissed her symptoms as menopause and it was only six months later that she found out it was stage 4 bowel cancer.

Jul 12, 2024

Immunotherapy approach shows potential in some people with metastatic solid tumors

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

The genetically modified lymphocytes were then multiplied into the hundreds of millions in the laboratory and infused back into the patients, where they expressed the tumor-specific T-cell receptors and continued to multiply.

“By taking the natural T-cell receptors that are present in a very small number of cells and putting them into normal lymphocytes for which we have enormous numbers—a million in every thimbleful of blood—we can generate as many cancer-fighting cells as we want,” Dr. Rosenberg explained.

As part of a larger phase 2 trial, seven patients with metastatic colon cancer were treated with the experimental personalized cellular immunotherapy. All seven received several doses of the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab (Keytruda) before the cell therapy and another immunotherapy drug called IL-2 afterward. Three patients had substantial shrinkage of metastatic tumors in the liver, lung, and lymph nodes that lasted for four to seven months. The median time to disease progression was 4.6 months.

Jul 12, 2024

TencentARC/SEED-Story

Posted by in category: futurism

Multimodal Long Story Generation with Large Language Model https://huggingface.co/papers/2407.

With the remarkable advancements in image generation and open-form text generation, the creation of interleaved image-text content has become an…

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Jul 12, 2024

Get Ready for Optimus 2.0! Tesla’s Humanoid Robot is Leveling Up

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI

Elon Musk teased the next iteration of Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus 2.0 on X recently.

“The new Optimus design, which will be complete later this year, is something special,” Musk replied to an X post.

In June, Tesla shared a few updates about Optimus and the milestones the humanoid robot has reached over the past year. According to Tesla, Optimus has already undergone three major design revisions. The humanoid robot’s hand were revised four times in the last two years.

Jul 12, 2024

Mathematicians Are Edging Close to Solving One of the World’s 7 Hardest Math Problems

Posted by in category: mathematics

There’s $1 million at stake.

Jul 12, 2024

AMD’s Glass Substrate Chips Reportedly Launch Between 2025–2026 — Intel & Samsung Prep Mass Production Plans Post-2025

Posted by in categories: computing, materials

AMD is reportedly planning to develop Glass Substrate chips as early as 2025 as Intel & Samsung eye mass production for post-2025.

Glass Substrates Are Expected To Be The Next Big Thing For The Tech Industry, Intel & Samsung Eye Towards Establishing Their Production While AMD Aims Chip Development As Early As 2025

Glass substrates are used in packaging solutions to replace organic materials. They have numerous benefits, such as higher packaging strength, which ensures more extended durability & reliability, and a higher interconnected density since glass is usually much thinner than organic material. This allows the integration of multiple transistors into a single pack. It is said to overcome flaws associated with traditional methods and open a new wave of innovation for computing chips employing glass substrates.

Jul 12, 2024

Apple could reinvent group audio chat with no cell or WiFi needed

Posted by in category: internet

Apple is developing technology that would allow any number of willing people in close proximity to start an audio chat, using only an iPhone and a headset like AirPods, with no WiFi or cell service needed.

Instantaneous communication like the Walkie-Talkie feature on the Apple Watch would be possible but with groups of people instead of individuals.

Unlike the Walkie-Talkie feature, this new technology would eliminate the roundtrip to Apple’s cloud servers, a step that makes Walkie-Talkie unreliable at times. Also, unlike Walkie-Talkie, this would allow groups of willing people to talk to each other simultaneously.

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