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Apr 10, 2021

This wild-looking house is made out of dirt by a giant 3D printer

Posted by in categories: habitats, sustainability

These 645-square-foot domed buildings were printed in Italy over the course of 200 hours.

Apr 10, 2021

The Near-Magical Mystery of Quasiparticles

Posted by in categories: computing, physics

Using intuition, educated guesswork and computer simulations, condensed matter physicists have become better at figuring out which quasiparticles are theoretically possible. Meanwhile in the lab, as physicists push novel materials to new extremes, the quasiparticle zoo has grown quickly and become more and more exotic. “It really is a towering intellectual achievement,” said Natelson.

Recent discoveries include pi-tons, immovable fractons and warped wrinklons. “We now think about quasiparticles with properties that we never really dreamt of before,” said Steve Simon, a theoretical condensed matter physicist at the University of Oxford.

Here are a few of the most curious and potentially useful quasiparticles.

Apr 10, 2021

Long-Missing Midsize Black Hole Flashes Into View

Posted by in category: cosmology

Black holes seemed to come only in sizes small and XXL. A new search strategy has uncovered a black hole of “intermediate” mass, raising hopes of more to come.

Apr 10, 2021

How to stop a pandemic before it starts, illustrated

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

U.S. policymakers have spent trillions of dollars to mitigate the effects of Covid-19. But the answer to preventing the next pandemic altogether lies elsewhere.

Apr 10, 2021

These trees bleed metal — and could help power the future

Posted by in categories: food, futurism

These plants suck metals from the soil at amazing rates. Scientists hope farming the plants could provide an environmentally-friendly alternative to mining.

Apr 10, 2021

‘Neutrobots’ deliver cancer drugs to the brain

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Researchers in China have designed a new bio-hybrid microbot, able to cross the blood-brain barrier and deliver drugs directly to brain tumours.

Apr 10, 2021

US spies peer into the future — and it doesn’t look good

Posted by in category: futurism

Their predictions include growing uncertainty and instability, and more polarisation and populism.

Apr 10, 2021

Breakthrough discovery of misbehaving muon challenges known laws of the physical universe

Posted by in categories: innovation, particle physics

The New York Times Apr 09, 2021 17:29:04 IST

Evidence is mounting that a tiny subatomic particle seems to be disobeying the known laws of physics, scientists announced Wednesday, a finding that would open a vast and tantalizing hole in our understanding of the universe. The result, physicists say, suggests that there are forms of matter and energy vital to the nature and evolution of the cosmos that are not yet known to science.

“This is our Mars rover landing moment,” said Chris Polly, a physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab, in Batavia, Illinois, who has been working toward this finding for most of his career.

Apr 10, 2021

‘Exciting’ breakthrough at Large Hadron Collider may be key to unlocking mysteries of universe

Posted by in categories: innovation, particle physics

Physicists have seen signs that a mystery force is interacting with other particles in a manner never witnessed before. It may explain some of the deepest physics puzzles.

Apr 10, 2021

Dr. Suzan Murray, D.V.M., Smithsonian / SCBI — Wildlife Care And Combating Emerging Zoonotic Disease

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

Wildlife Care And Combating Emerging Zoonotic Diseases — Dr. Suzan Murray, D.V.M., D.A.C.Z.M. Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, Program Director, Global Health Program.


Dr. Suzan Murray, D.V.M., D.A.C.Z.M. is a board-certified zoo veterinarian at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) and serves as both the Program Director of the Global Health Program and as SCBI’s chief wildlife veterinary medical officer.

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