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Nov 30, 2022

Magnetic material mops up microplastics in water

Posted by in categories: materials, sustainability

Researchers at RMIT University have found an innovative way to rapidly remove hazardous microplastics from water using magnets.

Lead researcher Professor Nicky Eshtiaghi said existing methods could take days to remove microplastics from water, while their cheap and sustainable invention achieves better results in just one hour.

The team says they have developed adsorbents, in the form of a powder, that remove microplastics 1,000 times smaller than those currently detectable by existing .

Nov 30, 2022

Breaking the scaling limits of analog computing

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

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MIT researchers have developed a technique that greatly reduces the error in an optical neural network, which uses light to process data instead of electrical signals. With their technique, the larger an optical neural network becomes, the lower the error in its computations. This could enable them to scale these devices up so they would be large enough for commercial uses.

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Nov 30, 2022

Ancient skull uncovered in China could be million-year-old Homo erectus

Posted by in category: futurism

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Fieldwork is under way to excavate a rare, well-preserved specimen in central China.

Nov 30, 2022

20 Times More Intense: New Material Will Help Improve Phone and Television Displays

Posted by in categories: chemistry, computing, mobile phones, physics

Scientists have created, synthesized, and analyzed a new class of fluorophores, which are luminous chemical compounds. These are the new bullet systems based on cyanopyrazine. According to research, the inclusion of cyanogroup compounds in fluorophores considerably boosts the efficiency of organic light-emitting diodes (OLED). This indicates they can be utilized to develop new materials to improve the brightness of smartphone, computer, and television screens. The researchers’ findings were recently published in the journal Dyes and Pigments.

The research was led by Egor Verbitskiy, the director of the Postovsky Institute of Organic Synthesis Ural Branch of RAS and a member of the Laboratory of Medical Chemistry and Advanced Organic Materials at the Ural Federal University. He states that physicists were aware that introducing cyanogroups to fluorophores can enhance the OLEDs’ properties and overall efficiency.

Nov 30, 2022

What Happens When Everyone Realises We Can Live Much Longer? We May Find Out As Soon As 2025

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Let’s not just cure cancer: let’s cure aging One of the most exciting areas of modern scientific research is the investigation of the causes and cures for aging. Not individual diseases like cancer and heart disease, but the processes which make us elderly and frail, and which thereby make us more susceptible to these diseases.

Nov 30, 2022

Kongsberg precision-strike missiles to replace Harpoons on UK warships

Posted by in category: military

The first three warships are being rapidly modified to accept the weapon with the first ready for operation in a little over 12 months the U.K. Ministry of Defence said in a statement.

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace revealed the deal during a visit of the British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth to Norway this week.

The surface-to-surface strike weapon is being rushed into service in time to meet next year’s pensioning off of the Harpoon missile originally built by McDonnell Douglas before the company was acquired by Boeing.

Nov 30, 2022

Researchers discover new form of antimicrobial resistance

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

Australian researchers have uncovered a new form of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), undetectable using traditional laboratory testing methods, in a discovery set to challenge existing efforts to monitor and tackle one of the world’s greatest health threats.

AMR is expected to claim 10 million lives a year by 2050, with scientists racing to understand and get ahead of the diminishing benefits of antibiotics.

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Nov 30, 2022

New quantum computing feat is a modern twist on a 150-year-old thought experiment

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

A team of quantum engineers at UNSW Sydney has developed a method to reset a quantum computer—that is, to prepare a quantum bit in the ‘0’ state—with very high confidence, as needed for reliable quantum computations. The method is surprisingly simple: it is related to the old concept of ‘Maxwell’s demon’, an omniscient being that can separate a gas into hot and cold by watching the speed of the individual molecules.

“Here we used a much more modern ‘demon’—a fast digital voltmeter—to watch the temperature of an electron drawn at random from a warm pool of electrons. In doing so, we made it much colder than the pool it came from, and this corresponds to a high certainty of it being in the ‘0’ computational state,” says Professor Andrea Morello of UNSW, who led the team.

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Nov 30, 2022

Dr Katcher’s E5 Experiment November 2022 Update

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, media & arts

Short version: One treated rat is sill alive and equivalent to a 110 year old human.


In this video we review the latest updates from Dr Katcher’s Lifespan trials and NEEL clinical trials.
NTZ Newsletter.
https://www.ntzplural.com/newsletter.
NEEL website.
https://www.neel.bio.

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Nov 30, 2022

China-Shenzhou-15/Thermal Management

Posted by in category: futurism

Measures taken to guarantee Shenzhou-15 launch at ultra-low temperature.