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Gemini and Blanco Telescopes Unlock Clues to Origin of Longest Gamma-ray Burst Ever Observed

Astronomers have observed the longest-ever gamma-ray burst — a powerful, extragalactic explosion that lasted over seven hours. Rapid follow-up observations with the U.S. Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera and the International Gemini Observatory, funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation and operated by NSF NOIRLab, provided crucial information about the possible origin of this extraordinary event and the galaxy that hosts it.

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful explosions in the Universe, second only to the Big Bang. The majority of these bursts are observed to flash and fade within a few seconds to minutes. But on 2 July 2025, astronomers were alerted to a GRB source that was exhibiting repeating bursts and would end up lasting over seven hours. This event, dubbed GRB 250702B, is the longest gamma-ray burst humans have ever witnessed.

GRB 250702B was first identified by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi). Shortly after space-based telescopes detected the initial bursts in gamma-rays and pinpointed its on-sky location in X-rays, astronomers around the world launched campaigns to observe the event in additional wavelengths of light.

Revolutionary AI System Achieves 600x Speed Breakthrough in the Search for Signals from Space

In a significant advance for astronomy, researchers from the Breakthrough Listen initiative, working in collaboration with NVIDIA and utilizing their system on the SETI Institute’s Allen Telescope Array (ATA) in California, have improved the process for detecting Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). Their newly developed artificial intelligence system outperforms existing methods, operating hundreds of times faster than current pipelines while maintaining accuracy.

Detailed in the peer-reviewed journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, the new system operates on NVIDIA’s Holoscan platform, designed to process massive streaming datasets in real-time. Traditionally, FRB detection requires “dedispersion” — searching through thousands of possible signal parameters to correct for frequency-dependent time delays. The new end-to-end AI architecture eliminates that bottleneck, analyzing signals in real time and transforming how astronomers search for transient and potentially artificial signals from space.

The performance gains are notable. At the ATA, the state-of-the-art pipeline currently takes approximately 59 seconds to process 16.3 seconds of observational data — nearly four times slower than real-time. The new AI-driven system performs the same task 600 times faster, operating over 160 times faster than real-time.

CH$_3$OH and HCN in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Mapped with the ALMA Atacama Compact Array

CH_3OH and HCN in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Mapped with the ALMA Atacama Compact Array: Distinct Outgassing Behaviors and a Remarkably High CH_3OH/HCN Production Rate Ratio.

We report the detection of methanol (CH$_3$OH) toward interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using the Atacama Compact Array of the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) on UT 2025 August 28, September 18 and 22, and October 1, and of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) on September 12 and 15. These observations spanned pre-perihelion heliocentric distances ($r_H$) of 2.6 — 1.7 au. The molecules showed outgassing patterns distinct from one another, with HCN production being depleted in the sunward hemisphere of the coma, whereas CH$_3$OH was enhanced in that direction. Statistical analysis of molecular scale lengths in 3I/ATLAS indicated that CH$_3$OH included production from coma sources at $L_p258$ km at 99% confidence, although low signal-to-noise on long baselines prevented definitively ruling out CH$_3$OH as purely a parent species.

BOMBSHELL Anti-Gravity Documents Prove Classified Research Continued!

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Electric Propulsion Study https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA227121.pdf

This Electric Propulsion Study confirms the controversial Biefield-Brown Effect was taken extremely seriously by the US Aerospace/Defense sectors as a highly feasible method for exotic, next generation propulsion systems that utilise field propulsion through electromagnetic-gravitational wave coupling. This document was prepared by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for the Astronautics Laboratory (AFSC) Air Force Space Technology Center, Space Systems Division, Air Force Systems Command.

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Windows is rolling out the ability to handle all app updates from just your OS, but with limited support right now

Good news, an actually good Windows update is here. But it likely won’t be useful for a while. Still, the foundation has been laid for your apps to update themselves thanks to the introduction of the Unified Update Orchestration Platform (UOP).

The UOP will “download and install updates based on user activity and system state”. Though rather than Windows Update, which provides patches for the OS and some applications and services, or Microsoft Store, UOP allows apps to stick to their own backend updating service. So, think of it like the OS helping apps to download updates when the system isn’t in use.

JWST Tests TRAPPIST-1e for an Atmosphere

Based on our most recent work, we suggest that the previously reported tentative hint of an atmosphere is more likely to be ‘noise’ from the host star,” said Dr. Sukrit Ranjan. “However, this does not mean that TRAPPIST-1e does not have an atmosphere – we just need more data.

Does the Earth-sized TRAPPIST-1e have the conditions for supporting life as we know it, specifically an appropriate atmosphere? This is what several studies published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the potential for TRAPPIST-1e to possess an atmosphere while throwing caution to the wind regarding the findings. This study has the potential to help scientists better understand the potential habitability of not only planets within the TRAPPIST-1 system, but also other exoplanetary systems throughout the universe.

For the first and second study, the researchers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to observe the atmosphere of TRAPPIST-1e, which is located approximately 40 light-years from Earth. The TRAPPIST-1 system has long been targeted by the scientific community due to the system containing seven known Earth-sized worlds. The unique aspect about the TRAPPIST-1 system is its M-dwarf star, which is both smaller and cooler than our Sun, but also means its lifetime is far greater than our Sun, strengthening the possibility of finding habitable planets orbiting them.

After analyzing the data, the first paper attempted to reduce the parent star’s activity that might be interfering with observations and conclude that TRAPPIST-1e does not have a hydrogen atmosphere. The second paper concludes with the possibility of TRAPPIST-1e having a nitrogen atmosphere with traces of carbon dioxide and methane, while a third paper stresses that further studies are required for a complete analysis and determination of TRAPPIST-1e’s atmospheric characteristics.

Do ICIs Have Long-Term Survival Benefit?

A cross‑sectional analysis found that few registration trials assessing immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) cancer therapies report long-term overall survival data. Among nearly 90 FDA-approved ICIs indications in the metastatic setting, less than one third of trials had overall survival data at 3 years, and even fewer (about 11%) reported overall survival data at 5 years.

Most registration trials for ICI cancer therapies don’t report long term overall survival data, a cross-sectional analysis finds.

Abstract: Introducing a new player in GLP-1-regulated insulin secretion…

Jeffrey R. Schelling & team find inhibition of the fatty acid transport protein FATP2 exerts glucose-lowering effects through GLP-1 secretion by alpha cells:

The figure shows FATP2 expression localizes to pancreatic alpha cells in mouse islets.

1Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

2Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System; Department of Ophthalmic Research, Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

3Department of Medicine and Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.

Expanding the search for quantum-ready 2D materials

Quantum technologies from ultrasensitive sensors to next-generation information processors depend on the ability of quantum bits, or qubits, to maintain their delicate quantum states for a sufficiently long time to be useful.

One of the most important measures of this stability is the spin coherence time. Unfortunately, qubits may lose coherence because their environment is “noisy,” for example, due to the presence of nuclear isotopes or other interference that disturbs the qubit.

Two-dimensional (2D) materials—or atomically thin sheets—can offer quiet environments for qubits, as their reduced thickness naturally lowers the number of isotopes that interact with the qubit.

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