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Aug 12, 2023

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agree to hold cage fight

Posted by 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 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 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 in category: biotech/medical

Sensing, shape-morphing devices take aim at medical and consumer applications.

Aug 12, 2023

It looked like a bizarre alignment of meteors. It was something else

Posted by 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 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 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 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 in category: particle physics

Precision test of particle’s magnetism confirms earlier shocking findings — but theory might not need a rethink after all.

Aug 12, 2023

Hundreds of mysterious structures found at the heart of the Milky Way

Posted by in categories: physics, space

The above image may look like a piece of colourful, abstract art, but it is, in fact, a glimpse at the very heart of our galaxy.

Most of us can’t even begin to imagine what lurks beyond our solar system, but astrophysicists in the US have discovered a whole colony of incredible structures at the centre of the Milky Way.

Scientists already knew that mysterious, magnetised strands hang in space, but a new investigation has uncovered a whole new population of them, and found that they are handily pointing in the direction of the galactic centre.