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Oct 31, 2024

‘Listening to scientists bicker is instructive’: physics Nobel-winner on solving problems between fields

Posted by in category: physics

John Hopfield, one of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, is a true polymath.


John Hopfield has had a varied career and delights in working in the cracks between disciplines.

Oct 31, 2024

Ghost Armadas & Primordial Galactic Wars

Posted by in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI

An exploration of the unsettling possibility we live in a universe of ancient galactic wars, ruins, relics, and leftover war machines scattered across the cosmos.

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Oct 31, 2024

#115 Alexander Rosenberg: Theory of Mind, History, Mental Illusions, and Nihilism

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Oct 31, 2024

Huntington’s Discovery Could Lead to New Treatments

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry

“This research marks the first time that we have been able to identify a specific chemical change that is unique to the development of Huntington’s disease, which opens the possibility of developing new tests to study the early changes of the disease before irreversible damage occurs.”


U.K. and German researchers are hopeful that their discovery of a key biochemical change involved in the development of Huntington’s disease could lead to its early detection and treatment.

Oct 31, 2024

Researchers uncover shared molecular mechanisms across three types of dementia

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Alzheimer’s disease, fronto temporal dementia and progressive supra nuclear palsy. Using this study design, the investigators found four genes that marked vulnerable neurons across all three disorders, highlighting pathways that could be used to develop new therapeutic approaches.


The discovery of genes that marked vulnerable neurons could open options for therapeutic approaches.

Oct 31, 2024

Giant Clams Are Marvels of Solar Energy

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

What we can learn from the critically endangered species.

Oct 31, 2024

New Research Suggests Various Parts Of The Brain Work Together To Come Up With Creative Ideas, Not Just One Specific Region

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

At some point in your life, you must’ve experienced a lightbulb moment when an amazing idea just popped into your head out of nowhere. But what is your brain doing during these brief periods of creativity?

Researchers from the University of Utah Health and Baylor College of Medicine looked into the origin of creative thinking in the brain. They found that different parts of the brain work together to produce creative ideas, not just one particular area.

“Unlike motor function or vision, they’re not dependent on one specific location in the brain,” Ben Shofty, the senior author of the study and an assistant professor of neurosurgery at the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, said. “There’s not a creativity cortex.”

Oct 31, 2024

Berkeley startup wins government award to develop radiation and lead poisoning treatment

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, government

Few drugs are available to treat heavy metals that enter the body, either from lead poisoning or nuclear fallout. A UC Berkeley startup hopes to change that.

Oct 31, 2024

Mexico Popocatépetl volcano eruption sparked rare advisory for Texas

Posted by in category: futurism

Winds pushed ash from the erupting volcano into southern Texas on Wednesday morning, a rare occurrence.

Oct 31, 2024

China and U.S. race to solve the mystery of neutrinos, ‘ghost particles’ of the universe

Posted by in category: particle physics

GOLDEN ROOSTER TOWN, Kaiping, China — In a granite cavern deep beneath the forested hills of southern China, workers will soon complete a 600-ton sphere that could crack open some of the deepest mysteries of modern physics.

The plexiglass sphere is the centerpiece of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory, or JUNO, a $300 million facility designed to measure neutrinos, the smallest subatomic particles known to physicists.

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