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May 27, 2021

New Role for Leptin: Promoting Synapse Formation in Rat Neurons

Posted by in category: neuroscience

The hormone, which is well known for regulating appetite, appears to influence neuronal development—a finding that could shed light on disorders such as autism that involve dysfunctional synapse formation.

May 27, 2021

Society of Immortals

Posted by in category: life extension

When immortality is available to the masses and not just the rich.


This is when immortality is granted on a large scale: to an entire civilization, or a village. Species that are naturally immortal such as elves fall under this as well. This can sidestep some of the problems inherent to immortality because when everyone is immortal then no one is alone and the general culture and mindset is that immortality is ‘normal’ and death is not.

Their source of immortality may be a large or mass-produced Immortality Inducer. If their immortality involves Immortality Immorality it may overlap with Town with a Dark Secret. There’s also the question of what type of Immortality the civilization has; a society whose members can respawn quickly after death will be different from one whose members never die from old age and both will be different from one whose members never die, period. Regardless, Immortal Procreation Clause is likely to be in effect and little attention will be paid to the traditional gender roles.

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May 27, 2021

Hundreds of antibiotic resistant genes found in the gastrointestinal tracts of Danish infants

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

“It’s a wake-up call that one-year-old children are already carrying gut bacteria that are resistant to very important types of antibiotics. New resistant bacteria are becoming more widespread due to increased antibiotic consumption. The horror scenario is that we will one day lack the antibiotics needed to treat life-threatening bacterial infections such as pneumonia or foodborne illnesses,” explains Department of Biology professor Søren Sørensen, who led the study.


Danish one-year-olds carry several hundred antibiotic resistant in their bacterial according to a new study from the University of Copenhagen. The presence of these genes is partly attributable to among mothers during pregnancy.

An estimated 700000 people die every year from and diseases. The WHO expects this figure to multiply greatly in coming decades. To study how occurs in humans’ natural bacterial flora, researchers from the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Biology analyzed stool samples from 662 Danish one-year-old children.

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May 27, 2021

NASA traces source of mysterious fast radio bursts sending signals to Earth

Posted by in category: alien life

Don’t panic, but mysterious sources have been sending radio signals to Earth for years. Now, scientists have tracked down some of their origins — and they were surprised by what they found.

And no, it’s still not aliens.

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May 27, 2021

AI Made a Movie With a ‘Silicon Valley’ Star—and the Results Are Horrifyingly Encouraging

Posted by in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI

Benjamin, as the AI is known, assembled ‘Zone Out’ from thousands of hours of old films and green-screen footage of professional actors—in 48 hours.

May 27, 2021

Quark-gluon plasma flows like water, according to new study

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics

What does quark-gluon plasma—the hot soup of elementary particles formed a few microseconds after the Big Bang—have in common with tap water? Scientists say it’s the way it flows.

A new study, published today in the journal SciPost Physics, has highlighted the surprising similarities between , the first matter thought to have filled the early Universe, and water that comes from our tap.

The ratio between the viscosity of a , the measure of how runny it is, and its density, decides how it flows. Whilst both the viscosity and density of are about 16 orders of magnitude larger than in water, the researchers found that the ratio between the viscosity and density of the two types of fluids are the same. This suggests that one of the most exotic states of matter known to exist in our universe would flow out of your tap in much the same way as water.

May 27, 2021

This record-breaking camera can zoom in 100 million times

Posted by in categories: electronics, particle physics

Step aside, Nikon P1000, the new king of zoom is here. It’s an electronic microscope, though, but it can zoom in 100 million times and still keep the subject clear. It’s so impressive, in fact, that it earned a spot in the Guinness World Records.

Although electron microscopes allow scientists to see individual atoms, zooming all that far will not result in a sufficiently clear image. It’s due to the aberrations in the lenses which are corrected with special aberration correctors. But the problem is that you can’t stack those correctors forever.

David Muller and Sol Gruner, physics professors of Cornell University, came up with a new approach that they first introduced back in 2018. Their electron microscope achieves high resolution using a high-powered detector and a technique called ptychography. Thanks to this technique, they could capture in sharp detail even particles that measure down to 0.39 ångströms or 0.039 nanometers (one-billionth of a meter).

May 27, 2021

AI is learning how to create itself

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Is AI that learns on its own the path to truly intelligent machines?

May 27, 2021

Living Creatures Need Water. But Could They Make Do With Sulfuric Acid?

Posted by in category: futurism

Can there be life in exotic solvents? — such as sulfuric acid?


New results cast doubt on the presence of life in the Venusian atmosphere.

May 27, 2021

Dr. Jonathan Chernoff, MD, PhD — Senior VP, Deputy Director, and CSO — Fox Chase Cancer Center

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

Innovating At The Frontiers Of Cancer Biology — Dr. Jonathan Chernoff MD, PhD, Senior Vice President, Deputy Director, and Chief Scientific Officer, Fox Chase Cancer Center.


Dr. Jonathan Chernoff, MD, PhD, is Senior Vice President, Deputy Director, and Chief Scientific Officer, at Fox Chase Cancer Center (https://www.foxchase.org/) where he coordinates and charts the future course of research for the organization.

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