Stimulating gamma brain waves may protect cancer patients from memory impairment and other cognitive effects of chemotherapy.
Patients undergoing chemotherapy often experience cognitive effects such as memory impairment and difficulty concentrating — a condition commonly known as “chemo brain.”
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SpaceX is gearing up for its third attempt to get its massive Starship spacecraft into orbit. In a recent update, the company hinted at a March 14 launch “pending regulatory approval.”
Meanwhile, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is already thinking many steps ahead, envisioning what’ll be like to travel on board the spacecraft all the way to Mars.
“Starship will have a small spin on the way to Mars,” Musk replied after Id Software founder John Carmack suggested SpaceX should try to spin its Dragon astronaut shuttle to test out spin gravity. “Even a tiny gravity vector is better than none.”
In fact, the Space Force’s 45th Weather Squadron predicts 95% odds of “go for launch” weather conditions.
SpaceX announced the Starlink 6–43 launch is targeted for 7:05 p.m. EDT Sunday from Launch Complex 40, with backup opportunities available if needed until 11:03 p.m.
The Falcon 9 rocket will deploy another payload of 23 Starlink broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit, adding to SpaceX’s growing constellation.
An average US household is using around 29 kilowatt-hours of electricity while ChatGPT is using more than half a million, The New Yorker reported.
Isaac Asimov’s idea of harvesting solar power from space may not be a thing of fiction much longer as space agencies explore the concept.
Albert Einstein in discussion with ‘Zwei-Stein’ v/@phalpern Zwei-Stein (signifying ‘second Einstein’) was one of physicist Wolfgang Pauli’s more flattering nicknames.
Albert Einstein in discussion with ‘Zwei-Stein’ v/@phalpern.
Zwei-Stein (signifying ‘second Einstein’) was one of physicist Wolfgang Pauli’s more flattering nicknames photo credit: Paul Ehrenfest.
Excitement about the era of Quantum Error Correction is reaching a fever pitch.
By Prof Michael J Biercuk, CEO and Founder, Q-CTRL
Excitement about the era of Quantum Error Correction (QEC) is reaching a fever pitch. This has been a topic under development for many years by academics and government agencies as QEC is a foundational concept in quantum computing.
Recent research challenges the long-standing understanding of the end-replication problem in DNA, revealing two distinct issues rather than one.
Half a century ago, scientists Jim Watson and Alexey Olovnikov independently realized that there was a problem with how our DNA gets copied. A quirk of linear DNA replication dictated that telomeres that protect the ends of chromosomes should have been growing shorter with each round of replication, a phenomenon known as the end-replication problem.
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A trio of clumsy Moon missions to start the year has me reflecting on humanity’s limited ability to explore and work in space.
OpenAI announced that the generative AI company has officially brought its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman back to its board of directors, several months after a previous board kicked Altman out.
