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Apr 28, 2023

Huge cache of mammal genomes offers fresh insights on human evolution

Posted by in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, biotech/medical, evolution, existential risks, genetics

Using Zoonomia’s data, researchers have also constructed a phylogenetic tree that estimates when each mammalian species diverged from its ancestors5. This analysis lends support to the hypothesis that mammals had already started evolutionarily diverging before Earth was struck by the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago — but that they diverged much more rapidly afterwards.

Only the beginning

The Zoonomia Project is just one of dozens of efforts to sequence animal genomes. Another large effort is the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP), which aims to generate genomes for roughly all 71,000 living vertebrate species, which include mammals, reptiles, fish, birds and amphibians. Although the two projects are independent of one another, many researchers are a part of both, says Haussler, who is a trustee of the VGP.

Apr 28, 2023

Gene-edited cells move science closer to repairing damaged hearts

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, science

New research offers a path toward transplants that can fix damage from a heart attack without causing life-threatening arrhythmias.

Apr 28, 2023

Moon mission failure: why is it so hard to pull off a lunar landing?

Posted by in category: space

The ispace lander’s failed touchdown highlights the challenges Moon landings pose, especially for private companies.

Apr 28, 2023

How Rosalind Franklin was let down

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The story of how the structure of DNA was found is one of team science from which one member was unforgivably excluded.

Apr 28, 2023

Schrödinger’s cat is verified by a vibrating crystal

Posted by in category: futurism

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The famed thought experiment, which posits that a cat can be alive and dead at the same time, is confirmed with classical evidence.

Apr 28, 2023

Is there life after death? | Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder

Posted by in categories: business, education

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Apr 28, 2023

The First Civilization to Emerge in the Galaxy

Posted by in categories: media & arts, space travel

The Galaxy is approximately 13 billion years old, which makes one wonder — just how many civilizations could have come and gone across that ocean of time? Today, we try something a little bit different for this channel, and imagine when and how the first civilization could have lived. The story is a fiction, but it provides a narrative around which we can more viscerally experience the conditions of the early cosmos, and the fragility of life itself.

Written & presented by Prof David Kipping.

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Apr 28, 2023

10 Unpleasant Alien Civilization Scenarios

Posted by in category: alien life

And exploration of 10 Unpleasant Alien Civilization Scenarios and speculation on what they might mean.

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Apr 28, 2023

BRAVE NEW WORLD (Full TV Movie Re-Edit) NWO Cut + Aldous Huxley Interview 1958

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, internet, media & arts, nanotechnology

A Re-Edited version of Aldous Huxleys classic, Brave New World…
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Apr 28, 2023

What is the Fluidic Telescope?

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

The Fluidic Telescope (FLUTE) project team, jointly led by NASA and Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, envisions a way to make huge circular self-healing mirrors in-orbit to further the field of astronomy. Larger telescopes collect more light, and they allow astronomers to peer farther into space and see distant objects in greater detail.

These next-generation large space observatories would study the highest priority astrophysics targets, including first generation stars—the first to shine and flame out after the Big Bang—early galaxies, and Earth-like exoplanets. These observatories could help address one of humanity’s most important science questions: “Are we alone in the universe?”

Like a carry-on suitcase, payloads launching to space need to stay within allowable size and weight limits to fly. Already pushing size limits, the state-of-the-art 21 foot (6.5 meter) aperture James Webb Space Telescope needed to be folded up origami-style—including the mirror itself—to fit inside the rocket for its ride to space. The aperture of an optical space observatory refers to the size of the telescope’s , the surface that collects and focuses incoming light.