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NASA has unlocked nuclear fusion on a tiny scale, with a phenomenon called lattice confinement fusion that takes place in the narrow channels between atoms. In the reaction, the common nuclear fuel deuterium gets trapped in the “empty” atomic space in a solid metal. What results is a Goldilocks effect that’s neither supercooled nor superheated, but where atoms reach fusion-level energy.
☢️ You like nuclear. So do we. Let’s nerd out over it together.
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How about a battery that can generate enough electricity to power an EV for years without ever needing to be recharged?
Will Elon Musk and crew will be unveiling a nano-diamond-battery on Tuesday? It’s fun to imagine the limitless possibilities. But, it really could happen.
In the sixties of the previous century, the science of Cybernetics emerged, which its founder Norbert Wiener defined as “the scientific study of control and communication in the animal and the machine.” Whereas the cyberneticists perhaps saw everything in the organic world too much as a machine type of regulatory network, the paradigm swapped to its mirror image, wherein everything in the natural world became seen as an organic neural network. Indeed, self-regulating networks appear to be ubiquitous: From the subatomic organization of atoms to the atomic organization of molecules, macromolecules, cells and organisms, everywhere the equivalent of neural networks appears to be present.
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“At a deep level all things in our Universe are ineffably interdependent and interconnected, as we are part of the Matryoshka-like mathematical object of emergent levels of complexity where consciousness pervades all levels.” –Alex M. Vikoulov, The Syntellect Hypothesis.
Enceladus may be even more interesting than we thought.
Saturn’s geyser-spewing moon Enceladus may be even more active than scientists had thought.
Gene sequencing company Illumina will pay $8 billion in cash and stock to buy cancer screening startup Grail, the companies said.
After publishing study based on unverified patient data from Surgisphere, a little-known company, The Lancet promises tighter standards.
A new type of battery has been developed that could revolutionise electric vehicle use with a recharge time of just 15 seconds.
The first performance numbers from SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service are coming in and they’re looking great. End-user terminal production numbers, though, are another matter.
How much control do you have over your thoughts? What if you were specifically told not to think of something—like a pink elephant?
A recent study led by UNSW psychologists has mapped what happens in the brain when a person tries to suppress a thought. The neuroscientists managed to ‘decode’ the complex brain activity using functional brain imaging (called fMRI) and an imaging algorithm.
The findings suggest that even when a person succeeds in ignoring a thought, like the pink elephant, it can still exist in another part of the brain—without them being aware of it.
