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Jan 14, 2023

Major breakthrough: Artificial pancreas successfully treats type 1 diabetes

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

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Now, an artificial pancreas also called a closed-loop system, may provide relief for people with type 1 diabetes, according to a post on BMJ published on Tuesday.

Jan 14, 2023

Climeworks becomes world’s 1st certified carbon removal service provider

Posted by in category: business

The company captures and transforms excessive CO2 emissions into rocks, and buries it underground.

The world’s first company to successfully absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and permanently store it underground for a paying customer has announced success.

“Providing our first corporate customers with CDR services is an exciting milestone we’re proud to reach with the rigorous validation of a certifying 3rd party,” said Christoph Gebald, co-CEO/founder of Climeworks.

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Jan 14, 2023

Quantum computers: How scientists can shield against cyber attacks

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, encryption, information science, quantum physics

Making predictions is never easy, but it is agreed that cryptography will be altered by the advent of quantum computers.

Thirteen, 53, and 433. That’s the size of quantum computers.


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Jan 14, 2023

Immortal jellyfish: Scientists are deciphering genes to learn secrets

Posted by in categories: biological, life extension

This process can occur endlessly and allows the jellyfish to escape death.

Achieving immortality has driven human beings throughout much of their history. Many peculiar legends and fables have been told about the search for the elixirs of life. Medieval alchemists worked tirelessly to find the formula for the philosopher’s stone, which granted rejuvenating powers. Another well-known story is the travels of Juan Ponce de León, who searched for the mysterious fountain of youth while conquering the New World.

But to this day, no one has discovered the keys to eternal life. However, there is one exception — a creature no more than four millimeters in size, Turritopsis dohrnii.

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Jan 14, 2023

Using cosmic rays to generate and distribute random numbers and boost security for local devices and networks

Posted by in categories: computing, encryption, military, quantum physics

State-of-the-art methods of information security are likely to be compromised by emerging technologies such as quantum computers. One of the reasons they are vulnerable is that both encrypted messages and the keys to decrypt them must be sent from sender to receiver.

A new method—called COSMOCAT—is proposed and demonstrated, which removes the need to send a since cosmic rays transport it for us, meaning that even if messages are intercepted, they could not be read using any theorized approach. COSMOCAT could be useful in localized various bandwidth applications, as there are limitations to the effective distance between sender and receiver.

In the field of information communication technology, there is a perpetual arms race to find ever more secure ways to transfer data, and ever more sophisticated ways to break them. Even the first modern computers were essentially code-breaking machines used by the U.S. and European Allies during World War II. And this is about to enter a new regime with the advent of quantum computers, capable of breaking current forms of security with ease. Even security methods which use quantum computers themselves might be susceptible to other quantum attacks.

Jan 14, 2023

SpaceX readies massive Starship in preparation for test flight

Posted by in category: space travel

The first launch of SpaceX’s massive rocket, called Starship, could be coming soon. The company shared a series of photos highlighting the vehicle’s progress ahead of its highly anticipated test flight.

Starship consists of two major components: a massive first-stage booster called the “Super Heavy” and an upper stage known as “Starship.” In typical SpaceX fashion, both aspects of the craft are designed to be fully reusable.

Jan 14, 2023

We Live Inside A 1,000-Light-Year-Wide Bubble Whose Magnetism Has Been Mapped

Posted by in categories: cosmology, mapping

If anyone accuses you of “living in a bubble” there is an astronomically correct, if not always convincing, response: we all do. The Sun sits inside what is known as the Local Bubble, a space within the Milky Way galaxy some 1,000 light-years across in which interstellar material is scarce. It can be hard to map something from the inside, but that’s what astronomers have tried to do with the Local Bubble’s magnetic fields.

It’s easy to imagine that anything distinctive about our Solar System’s location must be connected to our apparent uniqueness. However, superbubbles like our own are not particularly rare; indeed, the galaxy has enough of them to prompt comparisons with Swiss cheese. They are left behind by supernova explosions that push gas and dust out of surrounding regions. The material swept out by the explosion concentrates on the bubble’s surface – still so thin it would be considered a vacuum by Earthly standards, but dense enough to trigger star formation.

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Jan 14, 2023

Understanding the Role of Critical Minerals in the Renewable Energy Transition

Posted by in category: energy

Each of these piles represents a critical mineral needed to make the transition from fossil fuel-based energy to renewables possible.


Guest contributor, Jane Marsh, describes the challenges the U.S. and its allies face in securing minerals used for the energy transition.

Jan 14, 2023

Hydrogen Will Not Save Us. Here’s Why

Posted by in categories: energy, physics, sustainability, transportation

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Jan 14, 2023

Quantum machine learning (QML) poised to make a leap in 2023

Posted by in categories: information science, quantum physics, robotics/AI, security

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Classical machine learning (ML) algorithms have proven to be powerful tools for a wide range of tasks, including image and speech recognition, natural language processing (NLP) and predictive modeling. However, classical algorithms are limited by the constraints of classical computing and can struggle to process large and complex datasets or to achieve high levels of accuracy and precision.

Enter quantum machine learning (QML).