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After decades of research the potential of regenerative medicine becomes a life-saving reality.

Renewing the aging gut microbiome holds promise for preventing inflammatory brain and eye degeneration.

A new study shows that intermittent fasting and calorie restriction change the microbiome diversity in the gut, which could impact other functions in the body.

A Scanner Darkly.
by Philip K. Dick.
Read by Gary Telles.
Originally issued by NLS on cassette in 1994
I guess I’ll come back on Thursday.
This is a pretty good alternative to Paul Giamatti’s narration.
“In a near-future, drug-ridden America, narcotics agent Bob Arctor goes undercover to catch a drug dealer. In the junkie culture in which he operates (even his girlfriend is a dealer), he takes large doses of a drug that splits his brain into two separate personalities. The agent has no knowledge of his other self, who, as it turns out, is the drug dealer he is after.“
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A black hole created by the collision of two parent bodies can rebound at a speed of more than 28,000 kilometres per second.

For the first time, researchers have been able to track the behavior of triplons, a quasi-particle created between entangled electrons. They are very tricky to study and they do not form in conventional magnetic material. Now, researchers have been able to detect them for the first time using real-space measurements.

Quasi particles are not real particles. They form in specific interactions, but for as long as that interaction lasts they behave like a particle. The interaction in this case is the entanglement of two electrons. This pair can be entangled in a singlet state or a triplet state, and the triplon comes from the latter interaction.

To get the triplon in the first place, the team used small organic molecules called cobalt-phthalocyanine. What makes the molecule interesting is that it possesses a frontier electron. Now, don’t go picture some gunslinger particle – a frontier electron is simply an electron on the highest-energy occupied orbital.

Supermassive black holes sit at the center of many galaxies and are often surrounded by accretion disks that they feed on. Scientists observed a previously unexplored region near one – by accident.

Interview with Prof. Marc Sachon for the event “Artificial Intelligence: Using your power for good” (IESE Global Alumni Reunion 2022).

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An exploration of how old the first alien civilizations could be, or how early in the history of the universe were planets possible.

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