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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

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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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Jul 12, 2022

Antimatter Factories & Uses

Posted by in categories: energy, futurism

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Jul 12, 2022

Can particles really be in two places at the same time?

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

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When talking about quantum physics, people will often nonchalantly say that particles can be in two places at once. Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explores what is actually going on.

Jul 12, 2022

Amazon is quietly developing cancer vaccines in partnership with Fred Hutchinson and recruiting patients for a new clinical trial

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

The cancer vaccine project is the latest indication of Amazon’s growing interest in the healthcare sector.


Distinct neuron types in the auditory organ are necessary for encoding different features of sound and relaying them to the brain. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet provide evidence of an early, neuronal activity-independent, emergence of the different subtypes of auditory neurons, prior to birth in mice. The findings have recently been published in Nature Communications.

Jul 12, 2022

Neurons specialized in encoding sound emerge before birth

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, neuroscience

Distinct neuron types in the auditory organ are necessary for encoding different features of sound and relaying them to the brain. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet provide evidence of an early, neuronal activity-independent, emergence of the different subtypes of auditory neurons, prior to birth in mice. The findings have recently been published in Nature Communications.

Previous studies have provided ambiguous results on whether the different subtypes of emerge during prenatal or postnatal development, with in the latter case, a possible role of neuronal activity in generating their diversity. In this new study, researchers demonstrate that the fate of auditory neuron subtypes is under genetic control in the prenatal period, and reveal the complex controlling their genesis.

Jul 12, 2022

Behold! The Webb Space Telescope’s glorious first image shows countless distant galaxies

Posted by in category: space

Jul 12, 2022

Quantum Advantage Showdowns Have No Clear Winners

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

A series of recent experiments between quantum and classical computers shows the term’s ever-evolving meaning.