BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 19, 2024 — Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) used lasers and a supersonic sheet of gas to accelerate a high-quality beam of electrons to 10 billion electronvolts (eV) in just 30 cm. The energy and quality of the beam is a significant improvement compared to previous efforts.
Summary: New research reveals how the body’s circadian clock regulates macrophage activity, influencing immune system inflammation throughout the day. Activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome, a key component in the immune response, peaks during the morning when macrophages are most efficient. This daily rhythm is driven by mitochondrial activity, explaining why inflammatory conditions like arthritis often worsen in the morning.
The findings open doors to time-targeted therapies, potentially improving treatments for diseases driven by overactive inflammasomes. Understanding the immune system’s internal clock could lead to precise interventions for inflammatory disorders.
Material from asteroid Ryugu riddled with earthly microbes provides a cautionary tale for scientists seeking signs of alien life.
By Sharmila Kuthunur edited by Lee Billings.
Ancient cultures long thought the Sun had a mind of it’s own, but could life form in stars by nature or exist by artificial origins, and what would star with a mind of its own be like?
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Episode 238a, Season 6E20a.
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Bifurcation parameter is a root point of period-2n component. This series converges to the Feigenbaum point c = −1.401155… The ratio in the last column converges to the first Feigenbaum constant.
Unifying machine learning and physics.
In this video, Dr. Ardavan (Ahmad) Borzou will discuss the history of unifications in physics and how we can unify physics and machine learning.
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This latest clue about the architecture of consciousness supports a Nobel Prize winner’s theory about how quantum physics works in your brain.
By testing the boundaries of reality, Spanish-language authors have created a sublime counterpart to experimental physics.
