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Dec 15, 2022
Algae microrobots fight persistent bacterial infections
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, chemistry
Bioengineers used a modular, step-by-step chemical technique to create algae that carry antibiotic payloads.
Dec 15, 2022
NVIDIA’s New AI: Video Game Graphics, Now 60x Smaller!
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: robotics/AI
❤️ Check out Weights & Biases and sign up for a free demo here: https://wandb.com/papers.
❤️ Their mentioned post is available here: http://wandb.me/variable-bitrate.
📝 The paper “Variable Bitrate Neural Fields” is available here:
https://nv-tlabs.github.io/vqad/
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Dec 15, 2022
Una bomba que puede destruir a toda la humanidad en 0,00005 segundos
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in category: futurism
Dec 15, 2022
How to Make Alien Life Come Out of Hiding
Posted by Dirk Schulze-Makuch in category: alien life
What dead whales can teach us about finding aliens.
Posted on Big Think, direct link at.
Posted on BigThink.
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Dec 15, 2022
Scientists Discover Four Critical Genes Tied to Suicide
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, military
A study published Wednesday in the JAMA Psychiatry journal shows that four key genetic variations are more common in military veterans who have taken their own life or considered it.
Scientists from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, found the pattern while analyzing blood samples from a database that included 633,778 U.S. veterans, cross-referenced with the International Suicide Genetics Consortium of more than 549,000 individuals.
The obtained samples were sequenced to create genetic profiles compared to participants’ medical records, showing that 121,211 recorded cases of attempted suicide or thoughts about killing themselves.
Dec 15, 2022
SpaceX is set to shatter decades-old double launch record Friday. The weather looks great
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
If everything goes to plan, double SpaceX Falcon 9 launches are set to liftoff just minutes apart between 4 and 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 16.
Dec 15, 2022
Opinion: Bioethicists Should Not Control Your Body
Posted by Joe Bennett in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, ethics
Well… that’s me uninvited to the bioethicist’s christmas party…
Bioethicists frequently dictate what patients can and cannot do with their own bodies, and yet the general public very rarely questions this. Maybe it’s time we started to question what right bioethicists have to dictate what we can and cannot do with our own bodies?
Dec 15, 2022
Scientists hear ‘dust devils’ on Martian surface
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: space
‘We can learn a lot more using sound than we can with some of the other tools,’ says one researcher.
Dec 15, 2022
A message that resonates
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: biological, particle physics
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba have shown how adding a tiny resonator structure to an ultrafast electron pulse detector reduced the intensity of terahertz radiation required to characterize the pulse duration (ACS Photonics, “Streaking of a Picosecond Electron Pulse with a Weak Terahertz Pulse”).
To study proteins—for example, when determining the mechanisms of their biological actions—researchers need to understand the motion of individual atoms within a sample. This is difficult not just because atoms are so tiny, but also because such rearrangements usually occur in picoseconds—that is, trillionths of a second.
One method to examine these systems is to excite them with an ultrafast blast of laser light, and then immediately probe them with a very short electron pulse. Based on the way the electrons scatter off the sample as a function of the delay time between the laser and electron pulses, researchers can obtain a great deal of information about the atomic dynamics. However, characterizing the initial electron pulse is difficult and requires complex setups or high-powered THz radiation.
