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Jul 11, 2023
Five Dimensional Glass Discs Can Store Data for Upto 13.8 Billion Years
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: computing
It’s estimated that humans are producing the equivalent of 10 million Blu-ray Discs of data per day – and all and zero of those have to be stored somewhere.
Now, UK researchers may have a solution: a five-dimensional (5D) digital data disc that can store 360 terabytes of data for about 13.8 billion years.
To create the data discs, scientists at the University of Southampton used a process called femtosecond laser writing, which creates tiny discs of glass using ultrafast lasers that generate short and intense pulses of light.
Jul 11, 2023
Large collaboration yields unprecedented ‘live’ view into the brain’s complexity
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: computing, neuroscience
Brain tissue is one of the most intricate tissue specimens that scientists have arguably ever dealt with. Packed with an immeasurable amount of information, the human brain is the most sophisticated computational device with its network of around 86 billion neurons.
Understanding such complexity is a difficult task, and therefore making progress requires technologies to unravel the tiny, complex interactions taking place in the brain at microscopic scales. Imaging is therefore an enabling tool in neuroscience.
Jul 11, 2023
AI tools are designing entirely new proteins that could transform medicine
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
Jul 11, 2023
Echoes of Absence: Study Suggests We Can ‘Hear’ Silence
Posted by Arthur Brown in categories: futurism, neuroscience
Summary: A novel study suggests that silence can indeed be ‘heard.’ Philosophers and psychologists, using auditory illusions, demonstrated how silence distorts our perception of time, much like sounds do.
The study indicates that the brain perceives and processes silence in a manner similar to sounds. The research establishes a novel method to study the perception of absence, broadening the scope for future exploration in the realm of sensory perception.
Jul 11, 2023
Is there life on Venus? Report confirms more phosphine
Posted by Josh Seeherman in category: alien life
(NewsNation) — Astronomers have once again found a potential signal of life in the clouds of Venus.
The controversial observation of molecules of phosphine was first reported in 2020. Phosphine, comprised of hydrogen and phosphorus, is a gas on Earth that is only associated with life.
Three years later, “extensive additional detections” of the molecules were presented at the National Astronomy Meeting 2023 at Cardiff University in Wales, UK, according to a Forbes report.
Animals aren’t the only ones with the gift of gab. But what are plants actually “saying” to each other? The answer could help feed the world.
Jul 11, 2023
Meet Lisa — India’s First Odia AI News Anchor Launched By OTV
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: internet, robotics/AI
– India’s First Odia AI News Anchor Launched By OTV
#otvnews.
OdishaTV is Odisha’s no 1 News Channel. OTV being the first private satellite TV channel in Odisha carries the onus of charting a course that behoves its pioneering efforts.
Accordingly its charter objectives are FREE, FAIR and UNBIASED. OTV delivers reliable information across all platforms: TV, Internet and Mobile.
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Jul 11, 2023
Starlink Satellites Are Flooding Sky with Radiation- Why is That a Problem?
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: internet, physics, satellites
This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew)
There are currently thousands of Starlink satellites that belong to SpaceX, and they are causing a lot of disputes in the science and astronomy communities. They are disrupting scientific research by causing streaks in deep space photos, and according to a new study are also dumping “unintended electromagnetic radiation” into space, which could be a major problem for Earth-bound astronauts.
The study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics states that the satellites in low Earth orbit could be muddling or even drowning out signals from deep space that radio astronomers search for.
Jul 11, 2023
Little penguins that once lived in New Zealand were ridiculously cute
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified a new extinct species of small penguins that lived in New Zealand three million years ago. These creatures, described as “ridiculously cute,” are ancestors of little penguins that continue to thrive today along the coasts of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand.
After careful examination of two fossilized skulls – one belonging to an adult, the other to a juvenile – the researchers named the new species Wilson’s little penguin. The study was published last month in the Journal of Paleontology.
According to Bob Yirka of Phys.org, the newly discovered species represents the oldest-known extinct little penguin. Given that the researchers have only the skulls of the extinct animals at their disposal – not their entire skeletons – certain details about the Wilson’s little penguins remain uncertain.