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Jul 12, 2022

Gods & Monsters: Space as Lovecraft Envisioned it

Posted by in categories: futurism, space

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H.P. Lovecraft is known as the father of the Cosmic Horror genre of fiction. The creator of Cthulhu and many other terrifying dark gods in his novels paints a bleak and decaying view of our world and the Universe. Today we’ll examine what it might imply if that nihilistic and grim view of reality was correct.

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Jul 12, 2022

Webb Telescope’s first images are out — here’s the science hiding in the 5 pictures

Posted by in categories: science, space

The first full-color images from the James Webb Telescope are gorgeous, but they’re also full of substantial science.


Images of galaxy clusters, deep fields, dying stars, birthing stars, and exoplanet spectra electrified the astronomy community Tuesday.

Jul 12, 2022

NYC Prepares for the ‘Big One’ With Nuclear Attack PSA Video

Posted by in category: existential risks

In the event of a nuclear disaster, would you know what to do? If you’re a New York City resident, there’s a YouTube video for that.

The city’s Department of Emergency Management released a public service announcement video outlining the three steps that residents should take in case of a nuclear attack.

Jul 12, 2022

The Webb Space Telescope Will Rewrite Cosmic History. If It Works

Posted by in category: space

The James Webb Space Telescope has the potential to rewrite the history of the cosmos and reshape humanity’s position within it. But first, a lot of things have to work just right.

Jul 12, 2022

German supplier claims to have a “wear-free” electric motor good for towing, performance EVs

Posted by in category: sustainability

Mahle claims the motor can run continuously at 90% of its max output, with durability assured by a new integrated oil-cooling technique.

Jul 12, 2022

Giant sunspot threatens Earth as solar flare may cause blackouts

Posted by in category: futurism

The Sun is expected to explode any day now.

Solar researchers have their eye on a massive sunspot dubbed AR3055, which measures more than 6,100 miles wide. These regions, which appear as dark moles on the surface of the Sun, are concentrations of relatively cooler temperatures caused by a magnetic flux.

“There is an incredible-looking sunspot crossing the center of the solar disk and a new large dark core has just appeared on the limb,” astronomer Apollo Lasky said in a Monday statement published on SpaceWeather.com.

Jul 12, 2022

During sleep the brain’s reaction to sound remains strong but one critical feature of conscious attention disappears

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

The Neuro-Network.

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Jul 12, 2022

The next breakthrough tool in biology? It’s maths. Here are some ways mathematical biology is helping change the world

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, mathematics

Our ability to use mathematical modelling is accelerating breakthrough discoveries in health care and biotechnology.

Jul 12, 2022

How a fat-burning molecule could help treat overweight and obesity

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

A new study from the University of Bonn, Germany, has found that brown fat cells produce a molecule that helps burn fat, offering implications for treating obesity.

Jul 12, 2022

Physicists May Have Stumbled Upon an Entirely New Elementary Particle

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics

The sterile neutrino, if it truly exists, only answers to gravity.


Physicists are spelunking the complex findings from an experimental particle reactor found a mile below the surface in the mountains of Russia. What they found has the potential to send an earthquake through the bedrock of the standard model of physics itself: the results could confirm a new elementary particle, called a “sterile neutrino,” or demonstrate a need to revise a portion of the standard model.

The research comes from New Mexico’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in collaboration with the Baksan Neutrino Observatory near the Georgia border in far southwestern Russia. The scientists outlined their findings in two new papers published last month in the journals Physical Review Letters and Physical Review C.

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