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Nov 30, 2022

Is the brain a quantum computer? A remarkable pair of studies suggests so

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, neuroscience, quantum physics

Using modified MRI machines, physicists may have found quantum entanglement between the heart and brain If someone were to (theoretically) throw a wrench at your head, you might be able to catch it just in time to avoid a concussion. But how? Typically, for split-second reactions, we do not consciously decide to catch.

Nov 30, 2022

Alzheimer’s breakthrough could be ‘beginning of the end’: drug study

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Alzheimer’s disease could soon be a distant memory.

A revolutionary new Alzheimer’s drug named lecanemab could mark a major breakthrough in the decades-long battle against the neurological disorder, according to eye-opening Phase 3 trials. The potentially game-changing dry runs transpired in May 2021, but the results were only published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

“This first step is the hardest; I truly believe it represents the beginning of the end,” said Professor John Hardy, group leader at UK Dementia Research Institute at the University College London, describing the promising findings.

Nov 30, 2022

Astronomers capture a rare black hole phenomena billions of light years away

Posted by in category: cosmology

The tidal disruption event ripped apart the star so a black hole could feast.

Nov 30, 2022

Sexual-lineage-specific DNA methylation regulates meiosis in Arabidopsis

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension

Year 2017 This is essentially the mechanism for plant immortality.


RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) activity in the Arabidopsis thaliana male sexual lineage that regulates gene expression in meiocytes. Loss of sexual-lineage-specific RdDM causes mis-splicing of the MPS1 gene (also known as PRD2), thereby disrupting meiosis. Our results establish a regulatory paradigm in which de novo methylation creates a cell-lineage-specific epigenetic signature that controls gene expression and contributes to cellular function in flowering plants.

Nov 30, 2022

Antimatter Spacecraft: The Future of Interstellar Travel

Posted by in categories: particle physics, space travel

Year 2021 😁


Spacecrafts in dozens of sci-fi movies like Star Trek use antimatter propulsion systems to travel at unimaginably high speeds by warping spacetime. By using them, traveling to different planets and stars is significantly more efficient and quick. However, is it possible to make this sci-fi idea a reality? If so, how and when will we be able to use them? Let’s take a closer look.

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Nov 30, 2022

Researchers improve water filter systems using AI

Posted by in categories: materials, robotics/AI

The team replicated different patterns of materials and found arrangements that would let water through more easily.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been found to be useful in the creation of water filter materials and can quicken the process involved in making them, according to a study published today (Nov .30) in the journal ACS Central Science.


Creating a novel water purification system

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Nov 30, 2022

NASA awards Texas company to develop structures on the Moon

Posted by in categories: habitats, space, sustainability

The partnership aims at building infrastructures, such as landing pads, habitats, and roads on the lunar surface.

In a quest to find practical solutions to build sustainable structures on the moon, NASA has furthered its partnership with ICON, a construction technologies company based in Austin, Texas. The firm is known for building the first-ever habitable 3D-printed home in the United States in 2018.

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Nov 30, 2022

San Francisco police to soon deploy robots that can kill

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

The organization says the machines would only be used in extreme situations where lives are at stake.

Supervisors in San Francisco voted Tuesday to allow city police to use potentially lethal remote-controlled robots in emergency situations, according to a report by Mission Local.

A dystopian future?

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Nov 30, 2022

Researchers use AI to assess patients’ vocals after surgery on the larynx

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, robotics/AI

Artificial intelligence would be used to detect changes in the vocals of each patient after a laryngectomy.

Researchers from Kaunas University of Technology Faculty of Informatics (KTU IF) and Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU) in Lithuania have created a new substitute voice evaluation index that can detect pathologies in patients’ voices more quickly and efficiently. Voice pathologies include a variety of disorders such as growths on the vocal cords, spasms, swelling or paralysis in the vocal cords.

AI could be used to determine changes in voice after laryngectomy.

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Nov 30, 2022

Google licenses its AI tool for breast cancer screening to a medical firm

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, robotics/AI

It is the first ever commercial partnership between Google Health and the medical company iCAD.

Google recently announced that it licensed its AI research prototype to a medical company called iCAD. The AI research model can be used for breast cancer screening. iCAD is a company that creates innovative medical equipment for cancer detection.

ICAD made the announcement about the collaboration yesterday, Nov. 28, on its website.

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