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Dec 20, 2018
Scientists use modified salmonella to smuggle cancer-fighting particles into the tumor
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology
Coming up with potent anti-cancer drugs is one thing, delivering them to the site of a tumor inside the body is very much another. With a complicated organism guarded by a highly evolved immune system to navigate, getting these particles to there target in one piece is a challenging task, and one that scientists are continuing to tackle from all angles. A promising new approach developed at Virginia Tech leans on the penetrative properties of a salmonella infection, which they’ve found can be used as a vehicle to smuggle cancer-fighting nanoparticles into a tumor in a huge abundance.
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Dec 20, 2018
Full moon and meteor shower will make winter solstice extra special this year
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
Winter solstice, the shortest day of 2018, is Friday, December 21.
The solstice this year will be extra special because it will be followed the next day by a full moon known as the Cold Moon, and you might be able to see a meteor shower to boot.
First, CNN meteorologists Dave Hennen, Judson Jones and Brandon Miller help us understand the science behind the solstice.
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This is a supernova remnant in a nearby galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud. Don’t miss the full-size of this stunning image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory: https://go.nasa.gov/2EFFL7z
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Dec 20, 2018
8 Sci-Fi Writers Imagine the Bold and New Future of Work
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: economics, futurism
“In the early 21st century, perhaps the most important artistic genre is science fiction … [It shapes] how people understand the most important technological, social, and economic developments of our time.” —Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century.
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Dec 20, 2018
This Is The Most Advanced Model Of The Cosmos
Posted by Nicholi Avery in category: space
Dec 20, 2018
Congress Passes $1.2 Billion Quantum Computing Bill
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: computing, government, quantum physics
Dec 20, 2018
This Drone Seamlessly Transitions Between Swimming and Flying
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: drones, food, government
It isn’t unreasonable to think of drones as pesky technological nuisances. Our modern digital ecosystem regularly infringes on traditional notions of privacy and bombards our limited attention spans with stimuli. A swarm of drones hovering overhead seems like the physical manifestation of these intrusions and distractions. But we shouldn’t swat them away just yet. Drones still have practical utility and the potential to change industries.
An Expanding Market
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Dec 20, 2018
Ira Pastor — Ayersville Schools Discussion — Bioquark Inc.
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, business, DNA, futurism, genetics, health, life extension, neuroscience
Had a great time with my regenerative biology Q&A session with Ayersville (Ohio, USA) Schools 2nd graders and high school advanced anatomy class — so happy to see kids out there that are interested in these topics at such a young age — creating the future, one mind at a time — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_uu9f7nafc
Dec 20, 2018
Quantum Maxwell’s demon ‘teleports’ entropy out of a qubit
Posted by Xavier Rosseel in categories: computing, law, quantum physics
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, ETH Zurich, and Argonne National Laboratory, U.S, have described an extended quantum Maxwell’s demon, a device locally violating the second law of thermodynamics in a system located 1–5 meters away from the demon. The device could find applications in quantum computers and microscopic refrigerators cooling down tiny objects with pinpoint accuracy. The research was published Dec. 4 in Physical Review B.
The second law says that the entropy — that is, the degree of disorder or randomness — of an isolated system never decreases.
“Our demon causes a device called a qubit to transition into a more orderly state,” explained the study’s lead author Andrey Lebedev of MIPT and ETH Zurich. “Importantly, the demon does not alter the qubit’s energy and acts over a distance that is huge for quantum mechanics.”
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