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Aug 26, 2024

Heaviest antimatter observation yet will fine-tune numbers for dark matter search

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics

In experiments at the Brookhaven National Lab in the US, an international team of physicists has detected the heaviest “anti-nuclei” ever seen. The tiny, short-lived objects are composed of exotic antimatter particles.

Aug 26, 2024

Kagome Metals Unlocked: A New Dimension of Superconductivity

Posted by in categories: materials, quantum physics

Kagome metals exhibit superconductivity through a unique wave-like distribution of electron pairs, a discovery that overturns previous assumptions and may lead to the development of novel superconducting components.

This groundbreaking research, driven by theoretical insights and enhanced by cutting-edge experimental techniques, marks a significant step towards realizing efficient quantum devices.

For about fifteen years, Kagome materials with their star-shaped structure reminiscent of a Japanese basketry pattern have captivated global research. Only staring from 2018 scientists have been able to synthesize metallic compounds featuring this structure in the lab. Thanks to their unique crystal geometry, Kagome metals combine distinctive electronic, magnetic, and superconducting properties, making them promising for future quantum technologies.

Aug 26, 2024

Unlocking the Secrets of Promethium: Scientists Capture a Never-Before-Seen Elemental Bond

Posted by in categories: chemistry, materials

A team of scientists led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) recently made an unprecedented observation of how promethium, a rare element, forms chemical bonds in aqueous solutions.

This groundbreaking discovery was made using the Beamline for Materials Measurement (BMM), a beamline funded and operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, at the National Synchrotron Light Source II, a DOE Office of Science user facility at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Aug 26, 2024

Quantum Magic: How Scientists Are Untangling the Universe’s Weirdest Mystery

Posted by in categories: futurism, quantum physics

Carl Kocher demystifies quantum entanglement through experimental evidence, challenging classical physics and enriching our understanding of quantum paradoxes.

Quantum entanglement may be hard to get your head around, but it’s believed to be the key to future technological applications in quantum information. In this guest editorial, inspired by his new article in Frontiers in Quantum Science and Technology, Prof Carl Kocher explains his groundbreaking 1964–67 experiments in quantum entanglement and helps us stretch our minds to understand this apparently paradoxical phenomenon.

My new article, ‘Quantum Entanglement of Optical Photons: The First Experiment, 1964−67’, is intended to convey the spirit of a small research project that reaches into uncharted territory. The article breaks with tradition, as it offers a first-person account of the strategy and challenges for the experiment, as well as an interpretation of the final result and its significance. In this guest editorial, I will introduce the subject and also attempt to illuminate the question ‘What is a paradox?’

Aug 26, 2024

“Megalopolis” Trailer Pulled After Revelation That Its “Critic Quotes” Were AI-Generated Fakes

Posted by in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI

The trailer featured quotes from famous film critics panning Francis Ford Coppola’s previous films that appear to be made up by ChatGPT.

Aug 26, 2024

Infinite Range Solar EV? This YouTuber Built One, With An Asterisk

Posted by in categories: habitats, sustainability

Can we build solar-powered EVs that don’t need to be recharged? Technically yes. But this home-built project shows why it’s impractical for the real world.

Aug 26, 2024

Nonsurgical Neural Interfaces Could Significantly Expand Use of Neurotechnology

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, computing, cyborgs, internet, nanotechnology, neuroscience

Noninvasive braincomputer interfaces could vastly improve brain computer control.


Over the past two decades, the international biomedical research community has demonstrated increasingly sophisticated ways to allow a person’s brain to communicate with a device, allowing breakthroughs aimed at improving quality of life, such as access to computers and the internet, and more recently control of a prosthetic limb. DARPA has been at the forefront of this research.

The state of the art in brain-system communications has employed invasive techniques that allow precise, high-quality connections to specific neurons or groups of neurons. These techniques have helped patients with brain injury and other illnesses. However, these techniques are not appropriate for able-bodied people. DARPA now seeks to achieve high levels of brain-system communications without surgery, in its new program, Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3).

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Aug 26, 2024

Scientists discover new code governing gene activity

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

A newly discovered code within DNA—coined “spatial grammar”—holds a key to understanding how gene activity is encoded in the human genome.

This breakthrough finding, identified by researchers at Washington State University and the University of California, San Diego and published in Nature, revealed a long-postulated hidden spatial grammar embedded in DNA. The research could reshape scientists’ understanding of and how genetic variations may influence in development or disease.

Transcription factors, the proteins that control which genes in one’s genome are turned on or off, play a crucial role in this code. Long thought of as either or repressors of gene activity, this research shows the function of transcription factors is far more complex.

Aug 26, 2024

Vintage Sci-Fi Audiobooks The Early Days of Sci Fi

Posted by in category: futurism

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgyNZ7w5w7O714NHkRv5psA/com…mcXHJsFE0r

This story is AMAZING!! The most requested story that we haven’t narrated so far has finally been narrated and you will hear it in the next 24 to 48 hours. The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster.

Aug 25, 2024

‘Biocomputers’ made of human brain cells now available on rent

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Organoids, $500/month, last up to 100 days, used by select universities:


Designed by FinalSpark, biocomputers are a more efficient and low-energy alternative for training AI models.

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