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Oct 3, 2022
High-throughput mapping of a whole rhesus monkey brain at micrometer resolution
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: mapping, neuroscience
Oct 3, 2022
BI 103 Randal Koene and Ken Hayworth: The Road to Mind Uploading
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: biological, cryonics, life extension, neuroscience, robotics/AI
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Oct 3, 2022
This is Crazy: Scientists See Two Versions Of Reality Existing At The Same Time In A Quantum Experiment
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: quantum physics
We are aware of how skewed our perception of reality is. How we see the world is shaped by our senses, our societies, and our knowledge.
And you may want to rethink your belief that science will always provide you with objective reality.
Physicists can now verify a hypothesis that Nobel Prize winner Eugen Wigner initially put out in 1961.
Oct 3, 2022
Scientists Discover Massive “Ocean” Near Earth’s Core
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
The study confirmed something that it was only a theory, namely that ocean water accompanies subducting slabs and thus enters the transition zone.
Oct 3, 2022
Groundbreaking Method “Starves” Highly-Lethal Cancer Tumors of Energy, Eradicating Them
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, health, neuroscience
Ground-breaking research at Tel Aviv University successfully eradicated glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer. The researchers achieved the result by developing a strategy based on their finding of two crucial mechanisms in the brain that promote tumor growth and survival: one shields cancer cells from the immune system, while the other provides the energy needed for rapid tumor growth. The research discovered that astrocytes, which are brain cells, regulate both methods, and that when they aren’t there, tumor cells die and are eliminated.
Rita Perelroizen, a Ph.D. student, served as the study’s lead researcher. She collaborated with Professor Eytan Ruppin of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States and was supervised by Dr. Lior Mayo of the Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research and the Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv. The study was recently published in the journal Brain and was highlighted with scientific commentary.
Oct 3, 2022
AI shrinks 100,000-equation quantum problem to just four equations
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: information science, quantum physics, robotics/AI
Oct 3, 2022
There Are Cheaper, More Sustainable Ways Than Desalination to Meet Our Water Needs
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: energy, sustainability
Desalination plants discharge brine and wastewater, which can also kill nearby aquatic life if the process is not done properly. And generating the large quantity of energy that the plants consume has its own environmental impacts until it can be done carbon-free, which is still years off in most cases.
Unaffordable Water From Costly Plants
Oct 3, 2022
Wobbly Star Reveals the Closest Black Hole Yet
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: cosmology
But black holes do have gravity, and they know how to use it. If a black hole has a stellar companion, and they orbit each other closely enough, the former can strip some of the gas from the star. The gas falling into the black hole heats up and shines in high-energy radiation. Astronomers have found more than 50 such systems in the Milky Way.
However, when a black hole and its companion star orbit each other at a greater distance, the star remains whole. The black hole is then dormant and much more challenging to spot. To find it, one has to search for wobbling stars whose peculiar motion could be due to an unseen dark companion.
This is how a team of astronomers discovered the newest black hole candidate, which they call Gaia BH1. (The study, which is under review, is available here). Although it isn’t the first proposed candidate of its kind, it seems to be the most compelling to date.
