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Mar 13, 2021

Scientists Confirm an Incredibly Powerful Antimatter Particle Crashed Into Antarctica

Posted by in category: particle physics

But that’s nothing compared to how long scientists have been waiting to spot the bizarre phenomenon. Live Science notes that Stephen Glashow first came up with the notion of the subatomic cascade back in 1960 and that it’s been a matter of pure theory that whole time.

The actual cascade of Glashow resonance involves an antineutrino — or even a regular neutrino — crashing into an electron with so much energy that it produces a comparatively-large particle called a W boson.

Doing this requires the extremely-tiny antineutrino to carry 6.3 petaelectronvolts, or the amount of energy of 6.3 quadrillion electrons accelerated by a single volt. That’s the same, Live Science calculated, as 6300 mosquitos traveling at one mile per hour — or one mosquito traveling 8.2 times the speed of sound.

Mar 13, 2021

Doubling of antimatter created in the laboratory

Posted by in category: innovation

Scientists have achieved a breakthrough in the production of antimatter in the laboratory, with a near 100% increase.

Mar 13, 2021

Why SpaceX Bought a Robotic Dog

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space travel

SpaceX now employs robotic dogs, each costing $75000!

Mar 13, 2021

The Largest Rocket Never Launched

Posted by in category: space

This rocket was larger than the Saturn V but sadly never launched!

Mar 13, 2021

When Will SpaceX’s Starman Return To Earth?

Posted by in category: space travel

SpaceX sent Starman into space on a Falcon Heavy 3 years ago! But will he ever return to Earth?

Mar 13, 2021

For those interested in future cars

Posted by in category: futurism

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New Mercedes S-Class interior.

Mar 13, 2021

Scientists discovered a protein responsible for aging in stem cells

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Real aging reversal!

Mar 13, 2021

Scientists unlock mysteries of world’s oldest ‘computer’

Posted by in category: computing

The 2000-year-old mechanism has baffled experts since it was discovered on a shipwreck in 1901.

Mar 13, 2021

Waymo study claims robot drivers would prevent many fatal crashes

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

It’s a leading concern around self-driving cars.

Mar 13, 2021

CRISPR screen unveils new clues to the cause of uncontrolled cell division in cancer

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

Most cancers are driven by continuous cell division, the cause of which is largely a mystery. Scientists at Vanderbilt University have discovered a genetic switch that seems to touch off that abnormal proliferation of cells—and they did it with the gene editing system CRISPR.

Using a genomewide CRISPR screen, the Vanderbilt team discovered that deleting a protein made by the gene TRAF3 causes cells to proliferate without stopping, even after they reach a certain density that would normally signal them to stop dividing. Because TRAF3 has not been linked to cancer before, the finding could offer key insights into the development of some cancers, the researchers reported in the journal eLife.

The team started with 40 million epithelial cells, using CRISPR to select cells that kept dividing uncontrollably. They were surprised to discover that a loss of TRAF3 activates signaling that in turn drives cell proliferation. TRAF3 normally activates immunity and had not been linked to uncontrolled cell growth before, they said.