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The catalogue also provides information on how the black holes spin, which holds the key to understanding how the objects came to orbit each other before they merged. It shows that, in some binary systems, the two black holes have misaligned axes of rotation, which would imply that they formed separately. But many other binaries appear to have roughly aligned axes of rotation, which is what astrophysicists expect when the two black holes began their lives as a binary star system. Two schools of thought in astrophysics have each favoured one of the two scenarios, but it now appears that both were correct, Fishbach says.

Astrophysicists now have enough black-hole mergers to map their frequency over the cosmos’s history.

Point your phone’s camera at taking a picture and translate it… and the wizard in the app automatically translates the word(s) for you.

A new spherical tokamak in the U.K. could overcome one of the biggest hurdles to nuclear fusion power: the “exhaust problem”.

Together with CISA and the FBI, US Cyber Command wish Russian state hackers a “Happy Halloween!”

A biotech startup from Spain is making batteries that can power lights, music, and screens by using electrcity generated from soil microbes.

Transhuman related and entertaining.

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In what leading campaigners are describing as “a new chapter for nuclear disarmament”, the ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will now come into force on 22 January, after Honduras became the 50th Member State to ratify on Saturday.

In a review published in the journal *Science*, Jain and Steele Laboratories colleagues Hadi T. Nia, PhD, and Lance L. Munn, PhD, describe four distinct physical hallmarks of cancer that affect both cancer cells and the tumor microenvironment, contributing to both tumor growth and the development of resistance to powerful cancer drugs.

One widely accepted model of cancer holds that a normal cell goes rogue because of genetic mutations or an environmental insult. In this model, the altered cell starts replicating out of control and takes over normal tissues, displaying eight hallmarks that include the ability to promote and sustain the growth of tumors, evade immune system attempts to suppress growth, stimulate blood flow to tumors and both invade local tissues and metastasize (spread) elsewhere in the body.

But this model fails to take into account how physical processes affect tumor progression and treatment, say the authors. In addition to the aforementioned eight biological hallmarks of cancer proposed by Robert Weinberg, PhD, from MIT, and Douglas Hanahan, PhD, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Jain and colleagues propose adding four distinct physical hallmarks that capture the biomechanical abnormalities in tumors: elevated solid stress; elevated interstitial fluid pressure; increased stiffness and altered material properties; and altered tissue micro-architecture.

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Video from Waste-Ed. So basically, when we wash our clothes we release microplastics into the environment. The plastics come from fibers in our clothes.

They’ve added a filter to the washing machine to collect these microplastics to prevent these from spreading.

Dirt isn’t the only thing getting washed down the drain when you do laundry! Before your clothes make it to the dryer, tiny microfibers break off in the wash and travel through wastewater to pollute our… More environment. That changes with this microplastics filter that stops pollution at the source! Just install it on the side of the washer and send it back for safe disposal after it’s full. It captures 90% of the fibers that contaminate our planet!