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Feb 18, 2023

Applied Materials’ Upbeat Forecast Shows Chip-Gear Resilience

Posted by in categories: computing, transportation

Applied Materials Inc., the biggest maker of semiconductor-manufacturing equipment, gave a strong sales forecast for the current quarter, benefiting from demand for gear that makes auto and industrial chips.

Feb 18, 2023

Take a closer look at the new helicopter-like electric aircraft that can transport 4 people across hundreds of miles

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

Blade says it will use the ALIA-250 to take passengers from Manhattan to the Hamptons starting in 2025 or 2026.

Feb 18, 2023

Celery Seed-Derived Medicine May Improve Stroke Outcomes

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Patients who received the treatment had less severe brain symptoms and better daily functioning 90 days after the stroke, as compared with those who received clot treatment and a placebo medication.

Butylphthalide is approved and available for use in China, where the study was done. But the medication hasn’t been approved for use by the FDA.

“This is the first trial to show the benefit of using a medication that protects the brain from damage caused by a lack of oxygen to brain tissue. The medication was given to patients with acute ischemic stroke who were also receiving treatment to restore blood flow to the brain,” says co-author Baixue Jia, MD, a doctor of interventional neuroradiology at the Beijing Tiantan Hospital and the China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases in Beijing.

Feb 18, 2023

Multiple Sclerosis Discovery Could End Disease’s Chronic Inflammation

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, neuroscience

Summary: Blocking the activity of the reactor called the aryl hydrocarbon receptor in T cells resulted in both a decrease in inflammation and recovery in mouse models of multiple sclerosis.

Source: University of Virginia.

University of Virginia Health neuroscientists have discovered a potential way to disrupt the chronic inflammation responsible for multiple sclerosis.

Feb 18, 2023

Immunotherapy: Researchers identify ways to help predict outcomes

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Immunotherapy is currently a treatment option for breast cancer, melanoma, leukemia, and non-small cell lung cancer.

Researchers are currently looking at using immunotherapy as a treatment for other types of cancer, including prostate cancer, brain cancer, and ovarian cancer.

Feb 18, 2023

The Planck Temperature: How hot can the Universe get?

Posted by in categories: physics, space

The Planck Temperature – Absolute Hot: What is the hottest temperature possible.

Today I’m going to look at the Planck Temperature and it’s about to get very strange. Let’s find out more.

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Feb 18, 2023

Why Has NMN Been Removed From Amazon?

Posted by in categories: futurism, life extension

NMN has recently been removed from Amazon. The popular longevity supplement that is used by thousands of people all across the world will no longer is sold on Amazon as of the 16th of February 2023. Why has amazon removed NMN from its store, and what is the future for NMN?

Feb 18, 2023

Researchers think alien civilizations might be creating black holes to store quantum data

Posted by in categories: alien life, computing, existential risks, quantum physics

A new paper has proposed an absolutely wild idea. What if aliens are creating black holes to use as quantum storage? It sounds crazy, but some scientists say it could give us a solution to the Fermi Paradox, which essentially states that if life is common in our universe, why have we not found evidence of it beyond Earth?

This paradox has caused quite a few ripples throughout the scientific community, especially within parts that believe alien life is out there, just waiting to be discovered. The new paper has yet to be peer-reviewed, but it was created by a team of German and Georgian scientists who say we may be looking in the wrong direction in our search for alien life.

Currently, we rely on radio signals to search for signs of life out in the universe. But, these researchers suggest that we should instead approach black holes as if alien civilizations created them as massive quantum computers to store data in. As such, we should be looking for technosignatures emanating from megastructures like pulsars, white dwarf stars, and black holes.

Feb 18, 2023

SpaceX launches 51 Starlink satellites, lands rocket on ship at sea (video)

Posted by in categories: internet, satellites

51 of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit on Friday (Feb. 17), acing the first of two orbital missions the company has planned for the day.

The Starlink craft rode atop a Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base at 2:12 p.m. EST (1912 GMT; 11:12 a.m. local California time).

Feb 18, 2023

What is GPT-3? Everything your business needs to know about OpenAI’s breakthrough AI language program

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI

A software program that ingests gigabytes of text can automatically generate whole paragraphs so natural they sound like a person wrote them. OpenAI’s GPT-3 is all the rage. What is it, what can it do, and where is it going?