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Jun 24, 2021

Inflammatory Proteins May Slow Cognitive Decline in Aging Adults

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, life extension, neuroscience

These results suggest that IL-12 and IFN-γ could one day be measured along with other biomarkers to predict future brain health in cognitively normal people–a tool that doesn’t yet exist in medicine.


Summary: Higher levels of two cytokines were associated with slower cognitive decline in aging adults, a new study reports.

Source: Mass General

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Jun 24, 2021

Pathogenic gut bacteria linked to weight loss from low-calorie diet

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food

The same bacteria that cause inflammation also trigger weight loss.


A new study investigating how a low-calorie diet alters gut microbial populations is reporting unexpected results. The findings reveal a strange relationship between extreme caloric restriction and increased levels of a pathogenic bacteria linked to inflammatory bowel disease.

The research began by recruiting 80 overweight or obese subjects. Half the cohort were directed to maintain a stable weight for 16 weeks, while the other half completed a medically supervised weight-loss program including eight weeks of a very low calorie diet (800 kcal per day).

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Jun 24, 2021

Is Mycelium Fungus the Plastic of the Future?

Posted by in categories: energy, futurism

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Is Fungus the Plastic of the Future? Use the code “Undecided” to get CuriosityStream for less than $15 a year! https://curiositystream.com/Undecided. Plastic changed the course of manufacturing forever, but came at a cost. Mycelium technology might be the solution and the next big boom… a plastic-like replacement with so many uses and new opportunities for products, companies, and profits. Let’s explore mycelium technology and how it can help us achieve a more renewable and cleaner future.

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Jun 24, 2021

Asperger’s, Autism & You: Hale, Ian: 9798525370050: Amazon.com: Books

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Asperger’s, Autism & You [Hale, Ian] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Asperger’s, Autism & You.

Jun 24, 2021

Introducing the NVIDIA Canvas App | NVIDIA Studio

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Harness the power of AI to quickly turn simple brushstrokes into realistic landscape images for backgrounds, concept exploration, or creative inspiration. 🖌️

The NVIDIA Canvas app lets you create as quickly as you can imagine.

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Jun 24, 2021

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope woes reveal an even bigger flaw

Posted by in categories: computing, space

The 30-year-old telescope is ailing — and with it goes some unique capabilities.


NASA is scrambling to get the Hubble Space Telescope back online after a computer glitch that could leave NASA without a good successor.

Jun 23, 2021

Creation of quark–gluon plasma droplets with three distinct geometries

Posted by in category: particle physics

Circa 2019


A quark–gluon plasma is produced in proton–gold, deuteron–gold and helium–gold collisions. Observing elliptic and triangular flow in this nearly inviscid fluid from these different initial geometries provides a unique benchmark for hydrodynamic models.

Jun 23, 2021

Enhancement of the ‘tractor-beam’ pulling force on an optically bound structure

Posted by in category: tractor beam

Circa 2017


Recently, increasing attention has been devoted to mastering a new technique of optical delivery of micro-objects tractor-beam’1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Such beams have uniform intensity profiles along their propagation direction and can exert a negative force that, in contrast to the familiar pushing force associated with radiation pressure, pulls the scatterer toward the light source. It was experimentally observed that under certain circumstances, the pulling force can be significantly enhanced6 if a non-spherical scatterer, for example, a linear chain of optically bound objects10, 11, 12, is optically transported. Here we demonstrate that motion of two optically bound objects in a tractor beam strongly depends on theirs mutual distance and spatial orientation. Such configuration-dependent optical forces add extra flexibility to our ability to control matter with light.

Jun 23, 2021

Immortal quantum particles

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

Circa 2019


Decay is relentless in the macroscopic world: broken objects do not fit themselves back together again. However, other laws are valid in the quantum world: new research shows that so-called quasiparticles can decay and reorganize themselves again and are thus become virtually immortal. These are good prospects for the development of durable data memories.

Jun 23, 2021

Warren Buffett gives away another $4.1 billion, resigns as trustee at Gates Foundation

Posted by in category: futurism

Warren Buffett said Wednesday he will donate $4.1 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway shares to five foundations, and that he will resign as the trustee at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

This year’s donation marked the halfway point for the 90-year-old Oracle of Omaha, who in 2006 pledged to give away all of his Berkshire shares through annual gifts to Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, Sherwood Foundation, Howard G. Buffett Foundation and NoVo Foundation. Back then, Buffett owned 474998 Berkshire A shares. Today, he said he owns 238624 shares, worth about $100 billion.

“Today is a milestone for me,” Buffett said in a statement. “In 2006, I pledged to distribute all of my Berkshire Hathaway shares — more than 99% of my net worth — to philanthropy. With today’s $4.1 billion distribution, I’m halfway there.”