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Dec 7, 2019
Internal brain timers linked with motivation and behavior
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Time can be measured in many ways: a watch, a sundial, or the body’s natural circadian rhythms. But what about the sexual behavior of a fruit fly?
“If you ask a bunch of scientists whether animals can keep time, many would say they cannot, that things happen over time—but time itself is not measured,” says Michael Crickmore, Ph.D., a researcher in Boston Children’s Hospital’s F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center whose laboratory studies motivation. But in new research published in the journal Neuron in collaboration with the lab of Dragana Rogulja, Ph.D. at Harvard Medical School, he shows that the mating behavior of fruit flies is not haphazard. Instead, motivation and behavior are under the control of neurons that track time.
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Dec 7, 2019
Antivirals for the Gut? Study Points To Potential New Gut (and Brain) Treatment
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, government, neuroscience
A Gulf War Illness study finds a connection between dysregulated gut flora, leaky gut and neuroinflammation – and a new way to potentially resolve it.
It’s nice when the government has your back. After years of neglect, the federal government finally appears, at least regarding medical research, to have Gulf War Illness (GWI) veterans’ backs.
Dec 7, 2019
Edward Snowden on the Dangers of Mass Surveillance and Artificial General Intelligence
Posted by Marco Monfils in categories: business, education, robotics/AI, security, surveillance
AI is Pandora’s box, s’ true…
On the one hand we can’t close it and on the other hand our current direction is not good. And this is gonna get worse as AI starts taking its own ‘creative’ decisions… the human overlords will claim it has nothing to do with them if and when things go wrong.
The solution for commercialization is actually quite simple.
Dec 7, 2019
The Defense Department has produced the first tools for catching deepfakes
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: robotics/AI
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Fake video clips made with artificial intelligence can also be spotted using AI—but this may be the beginning of an arms race.
Dec 7, 2019
This Is How Quantum Physics Creates The Largest Cosmic Structures Of All
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: quantum physics, space
How can physics on the smallest scales affect what the Universe does on its largest ones? Cosmic inflation holds the answer.
Dec 7, 2019
Repairing leaky blood-brain barrier may rejuvenate brain function
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, neuroscience
New research in mice suggests that a leaky blood-brain barrier can accelerate brain aging, and that targeting inflammation can reverse some changes.
Dec 7, 2019
Have Scientists Cracked One Of The Biggest Mysteries Of Modern Physics?
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: cosmology, particle physics
So where did the antimatter go?
This question is one of the biggest mysteries of modern science, and the answer is unknown. Something happened in the earliest moments of the universe to make the antimatter disappear. From our best current measurements of the primordial radiation of the Big Bang (called the cosmic microwave background radiation, or CMB), something tilted the scales in favor of matter, with the ratio of for every three billion antimatter particles, there were three billion and one matter particles. The two sets of three billions cancelled and made the CMB, and the remaining tiny amount of matter went on to form the stars and galaxies that we see in our telescopes today. For this to happen, some physical process had to favor matter over antimatter.
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Dec 7, 2019
Black holes formed from dark matter could be making dead stars explode
Posted by Paul Battista in category: cosmology
White dwarfs are burnt out stars that can explode into supernovae, and this process might be kicked off by a black hole made of dark matter in the heart of the star.
Dec 7, 2019
From mind control, brainwashing and monsters — theories claim Stranger Things happened in REAL LIFE in a secret government project
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: computing, food, government, mobile phones, neuroscience, quantum physics, time travel
In my humble opinion, this was very real but is still based on science. But quantum mechanics would democratize this technology rather than needing a human interface. I think in the right hands and doing good it comes essentially do so much even materializing water or food endlessly using psionic abilities. Really quantum mechanics could lead to even materializing a cup of coffee from a computer. This is probably the most groundbreaking knowledge because quantum mechanics can prove that this is real. There are still ethical problems with this technology but the possibilities make this essentially a cheaper form of a replicator than essentially a Higgs boson one may be using a lot less energy. If it was fully understood it could allow for real psionic abilities for everyone maybe using a device perhaps even with a limiter for safety or even air-gapped so it is just on a smartphone. One day you could essentially just press a button on a smartphone and a cup of coffee would materialize or your favorite beverage, not just a uber or teleportation but essentially real materializing which some say that has been used possibly since the founding of the planet earth based on mythology seen from all over the planet earth.
SPINE-chilling stories about the sinister goings-on at Camp Hero air force base in Montauk have long been the stuff of local legend.
Since the Seventies, tall tales have surrounded the derelict facility in Long Island, New York.
