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Aug 12, 2023
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agree to hold cage fight
Posted by Nicholas Play in category: Elon Musk
Just throwing this out there…
Earlier this month, Meta showed staff plans for a text-based social network designed to compete with Twitter.
Aug 12, 2023
Could Rotifers be the Next Great Laboratory Model?
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical
Rotifers are multicellular, microscopic marine animals that live in soils and freshwater environments. They are transparent and can be easily grown in large numbers. As such, they have been used in some laboratories as research subjects for many years. Now scientists have found a way to manipulate the rotifer genome, which can make them far more useful for many different research applications.
In new work reported in PLOS Biology, scientists used the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool to alter two rotifer genes. These edits were then passed down to future generations of rotifers. This effort can now help others use these organisms in their laboratories.
Aug 12, 2023
Major Upgrade Will Boost Power of World’s Brightest X-ray Laser
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
Upgrade will sharpen our view of nature’s atomic processes at work, aiding the development of a number of transformative technologies.
Aug 12, 2023
3D Haptic Display Melds Touch With Tech
Posted by Paul Battista in category: biotech/medical
Aug 12, 2023
It looked like a bizarre alignment of meteors. It was something else
Posted by Arthur Brown in categories: internet, satellites
Astronomers are calling arrays of thousands of satellites, like that of Starlink’s, “mega constellations” because of their overwhelming presence in the night sky.
Aug 12, 2023
Watch the Perseid meteor shower tonight with this free telescope livestream
Posted by Arthur Brown in categories: habitats, space
Skywatchers can enjoy the popular Perseid meteor shower from the comfort of their own homes when it peaks on Saturday (Aug.12) and Sunday (Aug. 13).
Aug 12, 2023
Tiny particle’s ‘wobble’ could be start of a major discovery — scientists
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: particle physics
The “wobble” of a tiny particle known as a muon is once again challenging our understanding of physics and could be the start of a major discovery, scientists have said.
For the third time, findings from experiments have shown this particle does not behave as predicted by the Standard Model – the rulebook physicists use to describe and understand how the universe works at the subatomic level.
Scientists said their latest results, which have been submitted to the journal Physical Review Letters, reinforce measurements of the muon’s wobble in previous experiments and are even more precise.
Aug 12, 2023
Nuclear threats are increasing — here’s how the US should prepare for a nuclear event
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
What if there was another nuclear incident in the US? A disaster management scholar looks back at the history of nuclear events to assess the risk.
Aug 12, 2023
Dreams of new physics fade with latest muon magnetism result
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: particle physics
Precision test of particle’s magnetism confirms earlier shocking findings — but theory might not need a rethink after all.