Jul 29, 2021
It’s Big and Long-Lived, and It Won’t Catch Fire: The Vanadium Redox-Flow Battery
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: energy
Move over, lithium ion: Vanadium flow batteries finally become competitive for grid-scale energy storage.
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Jul 29, 2021
Scientists capture most-detailed radio image of Andromeda galaxy to date
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: physics, space
Scientists have published a new, detailed radio image of the Andromeda galaxy—the Milky Way’s sister galaxy—which will allow them to identify and study the regions of Andromeda where new stars are born.
The study—which is the first to create a radio image of Andromeda at the microwave frequency of 6.6 GHz—was led by University of British Columbia physicist Sofia Fatigoni, with colleagues at Sapienza University of Rome and the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics. It was published online in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
“This image will allow us to study the structure of Andromeda and its content in more detail than has ever been possible,” said Fatigoni, a Ph.D. student in the department of physics and astronomy at UBC. “Understanding the nature of physical processes that take place inside Andromeda allows us to understand what happens in our own galaxy more clearly—as if we were looking at ourselves from the outside.”
Jul 29, 2021
TSMC 2nm chip plans announced, a day after Intel said it could catch up
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: computing, mobile phones
TSMC 2nm production is likely to begin sometime in 2023, after the company got the green light for its most advanced chipmaking process yet.
The news comes just one day after Intel said it believed it could catch, and overtake, TSMC’s chipmaking capabilities within four years…
A large part of the secret to creating ever more powerful chips is shrinking the die process: getting more transistors into the same size of chip. The A14 chip used in the iPhone 12, designed by Apple and fabricated by TSMC, contains 11.8 billion transistors.
Jul 29, 2021
Pet food shortages leave owners on the hunt for kibble and cat treats
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, food, space
Black short-haired kitty Astra, one of millions of pets acquired during the COVID-19 pandemic last year, had to go without salmon-flavored Whiskas treats that were sold out at stores in New Orleans this month.
Jul 29, 2021
Sarcoma Awareness Month: 2021 Immunotherapy Research Updates
Posted by Jason Blain in category: biotech/medical
A variety of new and promising cancer immunotherapy treatments are only available to patients in clinical trials. Help speed the development of potentially lifesaving drugs. Discover trials for which you or a loved one may be eligible with the CRI Immunotherapy Clinical Trial Finder.
Jul 29, 2021
X-ray echoes behind black holes provide “extreme” proof Einstein was right
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in category: cosmology
The massive gravity of a black hole actually bent X-ray echoes from around its back.
Researchers have shown that the massive gravity of a black hole actually bent X-ray echoes from around its back, providing more evidence for general relativity.
Jul 29, 2021
13 Possible Psoriasis Complications
Posted by Jason Blain in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Psoriasis is a lifelong, autoimmune inflammatory disease. It often appears as a skin condition, but it is a systemic condition that can affect many parts of the body.
Psoriasis often causes skin lesions, but also a higher risk of other conditions, such as celiac, inflammatory bowel disease, and mental health issues. Find out more.
Jul 29, 2021
Helion Energy Says It Will Offer the World’s First Commercial Fusion Power
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: nuclear energy
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Helion plans to provide the first commercially viable nuclear fusion power! There remain obstacles, but zero-carbon energy is too promising to ignore.
Jul 29, 2021
California approves desalination plant as western states face an epic drought | Latest news
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: energy
Environmentalists say desalination decimates ocean life, costs too much money and energy. But as Western states face an epic drought, regulators appear ready to approve a desalination plant in Huntington Beach, California.
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Jul 29, 2021
Small proteins discovered to be regulators of the aging process
Posted by Kevin Huang in categories: food, life extension
Scientists have discovered that the protein ubiquitin plays an important role in the regulation of the aging process. Ubiquitin was previously known to control processes such as signal transduction and metabolism. Prof. Dr. David Vilchez and his colleagues at the CECAD Cluster of Excellence for Aging Research at the University of Cologne performed a comprehensive quantitative analysis of ubiquitin signatures during aging in the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, a nematode worm broadly used for aging research. This method—called ubiquitin proteomics—measures all changes in ubiquitination of proteins in the cell.
The resulting data provide site-specific information and define quantitative changes in ubiquitin changes across all proteins in a cell during aging. A comparison with the total protein content of a cell (proteome) showed which changes have functional consequences in protein turnover and actual protein content during aging. The scientists thus discovered new regulators of lifespan and provide a comprehensive dataset that helps to understand aging and longevity. The article, “Rewiring of the ubiquitinated proteome determines aging in C. elegans,” has now been published in Nature.
“Our study of ubiquitin changes led us to a number of exciting conclusions with important insights for understanding the aging process,” said Dr. Seda Koyuncu, lead author of the study. “We discovered that aging leads to changes in the ubiquitination of thousands of proteins in the cell, whereas longevity measures such as reduced food intake and reduced insulin signaling prevent these changes.” Specifically, the researchers found that aging causes a general loss of ubiquitination. This is caused by the enzymes that remove ubiquitin from proteins become more active during aging. Normally, ubiquitinated proteins are recognized and destroyed by the proteasome, the cell’s garbage truck. The scientists showed that the longevity of organisms is determined by age-related changes in the degradation of structural and regulatory proteins by the proteasome.
