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Dec 18, 2024
CRISPR genome-editing grows up: advanced therapies head for the clinic
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
Gene-editing technologies for cancer and blood disorders are maturing a little more than a year after the first CRISPR drug was approved.
Dec 18, 2024
Israel now operating its first domestically built quantum computer
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: computing, quantum physics
First Israeli superconductor-based quantum computer supporting defense and civilian applications is now operational.
Dec 18, 2024
What would happen to the human body moving at near lightspeed?
Posted by Arthur Brown in category: biotech/medical
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Dec 18, 2024
Ultrahigh-gain colloidal quantum dot infrared avalanche photodetectors
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: quantum physics
Kinetically pumped avalanche multiplication has been demonstrated in a colloidal quantum dot photodetector, achieving an 85-fold multiplication gain. This proposes new opportunities for developing colloidal quantum dot single-photon detectors.
Dec 18, 2024
Hubble trouble or Superbubble? Astronomers need to escape the ‘supervoid’ to solve cosmology crisis
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: cosmology
The disagreement in the rate of expansion of the universe, the Hubble tension, could arise from the fact Earth sits in an under-dense supervoid region of space.
Dec 18, 2024
Bias in AI amplifies our own biases, finds study
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: employment, robotics/AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems tend to take on human biases and amplify them, causing people who use that AI to become more biased themselves, finds a new study by UCL researchers.
Human and AI biases can consequently create a feedback loop, with small initial biases increasing the risk of human error, according to the findings published in Nature Human Behaviour.
The researchers demonstrated that AI bias can have real-world consequences, as they found that people interacting with biased AIs became more likely to underestimate women’s performance and overestimate white men’s likelihood of holding high-status jobs.
Dec 18, 2024
Neuroscientists discover a new pathway to forming long-term memories in the brain
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: neuroscience
Researchers from Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience have discovered a new pathway to forming long-term memories in the brain. Their work, published in Nature Neuroscience, suggests that long-term memory can form independently of short-term memory, a finding that opens exciting possibilities for understanding memory-related conditions.
Our brain works diligently to record our experiences into memories, creating representations of our daily events that stay with us for short time periods. Current scientific theories of memory formation suggest that short-term memories are stored in what we can imagine as a temporary art exhibition in our brain before being cleared out for representations of new experiences.
A tiny fraction of these short-term memories—those most relevant to us—are moved to a more permanent exhibit, our long-term memory, where they are stored for days, years, or decades.
Dec 18, 2024
Retrocausal Quantum Teleportation Protocol
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: computing, cosmology, information science, quantum physics, time travel
While classical physics presents a deterministic universe where cause must precede effect, quantum mechanics and relativity theory paint a more nuanced picture. There are already well-known examples from relativity theory like wormholes, which are valid solutions of Einstein’s Field Equations, and similarly in quantum mechanics the non-classical state of quantum entanglement—the “spooky action at a distance” that troubled Einstein—which demonstrates that quantum systems can maintain instantaneous correlations across space and, potentially, time.
Perhaps most intriguingly, the protocol suggests that quantum entanglement can be used to effectively send information about optimal measurement settings “back in time”—information that would normally only be available after an experiment is complete. This capability, while probabilistic in nature, could revolutionize quantum computing and measurement techniques. Recent advances in multipartite hybrid entanglement even suggest these effects might be achievable in real-world conditions, despite environmental noise and interference. The realization of such a retrocausal quantum computational network would, effectively, be the construction of a time machine, defined in general as a system in which some phenomenon characteristic only of chronology violation can reliably be observed.
This article explores the theoretical foundations, experimental proposals, significant improvements, and potential applications of the retrocausal teleportation protocol. From its origins in quantum mechanics and relativity theory to its implications for our understanding of causality and the nature of time itself, we examine how this cutting-edge research challenges our classical intuitions while opening new possibilities for quantum technology. As we delve into these concepts, we’ll see how the seemingly fantastic notion of time travel finds a subtle but profound expression in the quantum realm, potentially revolutionizing our approach to quantum computation and measurement while deepening our understanding of the universe’s temporal fabric.
