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Sep 16, 2019
Fans Take A Selfie With Dallas Cowboys Players
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: futurism
Sep 16, 2019
Gravity waves from a ringing black hole support the no-hair theorem
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: cosmology, physics
A new study of gravitational waves from merging black holes agrees with the predictions of the general theory of relativity.
Sep 16, 2019
NASA, SpaceX Coverage of 1st Crew Dragon Test Flight Wins Emmy
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space travel
Sep 16, 2019
By exploiting a feature of the immune system, researchers open the door for stem cell transplants to repair the brain
Posted by Gerard Bain in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, neuroscience
In experiments in mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have developed a way to successfully transplant certain protective brain cells without the need for lifelong anti-rejection drugs.
A report on the research, published Sept. 16 in the journal Brain, details the new approach, which selectively circumvents the immune response against foreign cells, allowing transplanted cells to survive, thrive and protect brain tissue long after stopping immune-suppressing drugs.
The ability to successfully transplant healthy cells into the brain without the need for conventional anti-rejection drugs could advance the search for therapies that help children born with a rare but devastating class of genetic diseases in which myelin, the protective coating around neurons that helps them send messages, does not form normally. Approximately 1 of every 100,000 children born in the U.S. will have one of these diseases, such as Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease. This disorder is characterized by infants missing developmental milestones such as sitting and walking, having involuntary muscle spasms, and potentially experiencing partial paralysis of the arms and legs, all caused by a genetic mutation in the genes that form myelin.
Sep 16, 2019
Watch all-electric air taxi ‘Volocopter’ make debut urban flight in Stuttgart
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in category: transportation
Volocopter, an electric air taxi startup backed by Daimler, had its urban flight debut during a presentation at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart.
We previously reported on Volocopter in 2017 when they received a €25 million ($30 million) investment led by Daimler, Mercedes-Benz’s parent company, and a few other investors.
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Sep 16, 2019
Tesla’s ‘Joe Mode’ in its V10 update is a lifesaver for parents
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation
Tesla owners who travel with kids can breathe an extra sigh of relief with the electric car maker’s V10 Update, as the company has introduced a new feature known as “Joe Mode.” The new feature will allow drivers to lower the volume of alerts and prompts that will are engaged while the vehicle is in motion.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced some details on V10’s “Joe Mode” earlier this year while replying to numerous followers who speculated about what new features will be coming to be new update. As one follower asked for a mode that would help keep his children asleep during drives, Musk replied with introductory information about the V10 feature.
Hoping to get “Joe Mode” into V10. The default, of course, is normal volume, but selecting “Joe Mode” would lower the volume of strident beeps & chimes by half.
Sep 16, 2019
Researchers advance noise cancelling for quantum computers
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: computing, quantum physics
A team from Dartmouth College and MIT has designed and conducted the first lab test to successfully detect and characterize a class of complex, “non-Gaussian” noise processes that are routinely encountered in superconducting quantum computing systems.
The characterization of non-Gaussian noise in superconducting quantum bits is a critical step toward making these systems more precise.
The joint study, published in Nature Communications, could help accelerate the realization of quantum computing systems. The experiment was based on earlier theoretical research conducted at Dartmouth and published in Physical Review Letters in 2016.