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Mar 9, 2023

Heart disease risk: Protein test more accurate than cholesterol

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

The health of the heart and blood vessels is vital to body function. Early screening can help people understand their risks and potentially prevent adverse health outcomes.

Testing cholesterol levels is important, but another test can further help identify the risk for cardiovascular disease: apolipoprotein B-100 (ApoB) levels. This protein helps transport cholesterol throughout the body.

Testing for the level of this protein in the blood may help identify people who are more at risk for cardiovascular disease, even when cholesterol levels are normal.

Mar 9, 2023

From deepfakes to Bing’s chatbot, AI-generated content is everywhere. Here’s how to spot it

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Here’s what you can do to detect AI-generated content.

AI detection tools exist

There are several tools available to the public that can detect text generated by large language models (LLM) — the more formal name for chatbots like ChatGPT.

Mar 9, 2023

A Hardy Enzyme May Hold Key to Creating Power Out of Thin Air

Posted by in categories: energy, innovation

A recent scientific breakthrough could see electricity being generated using nothing but the atmosphere, with perhaps a little added hydrogen.

The process involves an enzyme made by bacteria to help them grow and survive in environments including volcanic craters and Antarctica. The enzyme, called Huc, has been found to produce a small electrical current by consuming hydrogen in the air as a source of energy, researchers said in a paper published Wednesday in scientific journal Nature.

Mar 9, 2023

Wish You Could Read Minds? With AI’s Help, Maybe We Can

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Scientists trained AI to analyze brain scans and visually recreate what people were perceiving.

Mar 9, 2023

X-rays reveal how 450-year-old Tycho supernova became a giant cosmic particle accelerator

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics

In new research, astronomers have mapped the magnetic field in the historic Tycho supernova remnant that accelerates charged particles close to the speed of light.

Mar 9, 2023

The Al Naslaa rock formation is Earth’s most bizarre geological feature

Posted by in category: futurism

In the Saudi Arabian desert, the Al Naslaa rock formation looks completely unnatural. Its perfectly vertical split remains a mystery.

Mar 9, 2023

Blurring the line between human and machine: growing electrodes in tissue

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

A new study has taken ‘biotechnology’ to a whole new level. Researchers have developed a gel that facilitates electrode growth in zebrafish and medicinal leech tissues.

Researchers from Linköping, Lund and Gothenburg universities (all Sweden) have developed a gel that becomes electrically conductive when injected into tissue, relying on molecules found in the body to trigger conductivity. This could lead to the development of further human–machine integrations that can help us understand complex biological functions and fight disease.

Previously, combining bioelectronics with living organisms’ signaling systems has been difficult and often relied on external signals, such as light or electrical energy. The current study’s bioelectronic gel bypasses these issues by being flexible and soft enough to interact with tissues while remaining sturdy enough to be injectable; additionally, the gel requires no external signals to become electrically conductive. Instead, the body’s endogenous molecular signals are enough for activation.

Mar 9, 2023

In AI, is bigger always better?

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

As generative AI models grow larger and more powerful, some scientists advocate for leaner, more energy-efficient systems.

Mar 9, 2023

The Scientific Breakthrough That Could Make Batteries Last Longer

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, nuclear energy

A research team’s milestone could help realize efficient electrical grids, better battery life for cellphones and improving nuclear fusion.

Mar 9, 2023

Quantum crossover: How to distinguish single-particle and pair currents

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

If you cool down low-density atomic gas to ultralow temperatures (−273°C), you get a new state of matter called the Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC). A BEC has strongly coupled two-atom molecules behaving like a collective wave following quantum mechanics. If you reduce the pairing strength between them—for example, by increasing the magnetic field—the atoms form Cooper pairs according to Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory (which won a Nobel Prize).

The process is called BCS-BEC crossover. And the theory forms the basis of superfluids and superconductors, materials that do not display viscosity or . Hiroyuki Tajima and his team from the University of Tokyo proposed a new method to distinguish current carriers in the BCS-BEC crossover. The key is in the fluctuations of current.

Electronic devices display images thanks to electrons moving in a conductor—aka single-particle current. Your device may heat up due to the resistance caused by collisions of electrons in the conductor that dissipate electric energy as heat. But superconductors show zero resistance to current flow, saving lots of energy. This is possible because of paired electrons, which would have otherwise repelled each other due to their negative charge. In other words, the current in superconductors is mainly due to the pair-tunneling transport involving moving paired-current carriers rather than a single-particle current carrier.