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Jul 1, 2023

Moorebot Scout

Posted by in categories: drones, robotics/AI, security

Now that’s cool. I’d like one to keep harass me cats and dog haha actually it be useful. Am wondering what ever happened to the indoor Amazon security drone.


Advanced family robots from Moorebot.

Jul 1, 2023

Breathing helps to synchronize neural activity in cognitive areas of the waking brain, study finds

Posted by in category: neuroscience

New research published in Scientific Reports suggests that breathing has a crucial role in coordinating brain activity in the prefrontal brain network during wakefulness. The findings provide new insights into the relationship between respiration and cognitive processing, and could have important implications for meditative practices that involve controlled breathing.

Previous studies have indicated that respiration can have significant effects on brain activity and cognitive processes. For example, changes in breathing patterns have been linked to alterations in attention, arousal, and emotional states. The respiratory system also shares neural pathways and connections with brain regions involved in cognition.

For their new study, the researchers focused on a specific structure called the nucleus reuniens (Reu), which acts as a link between the prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus. The researchers wanted to investigate how the synchronization of neural activity, particularly in the gamma rhythm frequency range, is organized in this network.

Jul 1, 2023

Men more likely to use opioids with tranq and die from overdose, CDC reports show

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The powerful animal tranquilizer, xylazine, is being detected more often in the illegal drug supply, but it’s fentanyl that’s killing opioid users, experts warn.

Jul 1, 2023

Neutrinos Build a Ghostly Map of the Milky Way

Posted by in categories: particle physics, space

Astronomers for the first time detected neutrinos that originated within our local galaxy using a new technique.

Jul 1, 2023

Europe Is About to Launch The First Mission to Discover The Dark Side of The Universe

Posted by in category: cosmology

Europe’s Euclid space telescope is scheduled to blast off Saturday on the first-ever mission aiming to shed light on two of the Universe’s greatest mysteries: dark energy and dark matter.

Jul 1, 2023

Disorder lends robustness to the embryonic development of a tiny shrimp

Posted by in category: futurism

Consider the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis, a tiny crustacean with some interesting attributes.

“It’s been called a ‘living Swiss army knife,’” said Dillon Cislo, the lead author of a study that appears in Nature Physics. “It has numerous different appendages and each one is uniquely specifiable by its size and shape. Furthermore, each one of these limbs has a very specific function.”

Their fascinating bodies and accessible growth conditions make these creatures a well-chosen model organism for developmental studies. But more than that, according to Cislo and UC Santa Barbara researchers Mark Bowick and Sebastian Streichan, their embryos are a window into the world of tissue morphogenesis, a field that seeks to understand how a mass of becomes the complex body parts of an adult organism.

Jul 1, 2023

An experiment that reaches across the galaxy has ‘heard’ an invisible sea of ripples in space-time for the first time. It’s surprisingly loud

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

This thrum of gravitational waves is constantly pulsing through the universe. It opens a window into the earliest moments after the Big Bang.

Jul 1, 2023

Experimental probiotic could detoxify mercury from diet

Posted by in category: food

Researchers are designing a probiotic that could help detoxify mercury — a harmful metal often found in commonly eaten foods — in the gut.

Jul 1, 2023

Scientists find evidence of gravitational waves warping space-time throughout the cosmos

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

Albert Einstein proposed in 1916 that the universe was constantly being pushed and stretched by space-time waves undulating throughout the universe. A group of scientists won the Nobel Prize for finding proof of these waves in 2016, using a laser interferometer to detect a high-frequency gravitational wave emanating from the collision of two black holes or neutron stars less than 100 times the mass of the sun.

Jul 1, 2023

New drug provides weight loss of 24%

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

In a significant advance for the treatment of obesity, biotech giant Eli Lilly has announced the results from a trial of retatrutide, which produced a staggering 24.2% weight loss in patients.

Obesity, defined as a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher, is a major health issue that has increased significantly over the years. As of today, it affects over 42% of adults in the United States, with 20% of children and adolescents also affected. Worldwide, more than 1 billion people are dealing with the condition, including 650 million adults, 340 million adolescents, and 39 million children.