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Oct 31, 2024
New Research Suggests Various Parts Of The Brain Work Together To Come Up With Creative Ideas, Not Just One Specific Region
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, health, neuroscience
At some point in your life, you must’ve experienced a lightbulb moment when an amazing idea just popped into your head out of nowhere. But what is your brain doing during these brief periods of creativity?
Researchers from the University of Utah Health and Baylor College of Medicine looked into the origin of creative thinking in the brain. They found that different parts of the brain work together to produce creative ideas, not just one particular area.
“Unlike motor function or vision, they’re not dependent on one specific location in the brain,” Ben Shofty, the senior author of the study and an assistant professor of neurosurgery at the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, said. “There’s not a creativity cortex.”
Oct 31, 2024
Berkeley startup wins government award to develop radiation and lead poisoning treatment
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, government
Few drugs are available to treat heavy metals that enter the body, either from lead poisoning or nuclear fallout. A UC Berkeley startup hopes to change that.
Oct 31, 2024
Mexico Popocatépetl volcano eruption sparked rare advisory for Texas
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Winds pushed ash from the erupting volcano into southern Texas on Wednesday morning, a rare occurrence.
Oct 31, 2024
China and U.S. race to solve the mystery of neutrinos, ‘ghost particles’ of the universe
Posted by Arthur Brown in category: particle physics
GOLDEN ROOSTER TOWN, Kaiping, China — In a granite cavern deep beneath the forested hills of southern China, workers will soon complete a 600-ton sphere that could crack open some of the deepest mysteries of modern physics.
The plexiglass sphere is the centerpiece of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory, or JUNO, a $300 million facility designed to measure neutrinos, the smallest subatomic particles known to physicists.
Oct 31, 2024
Sakyo Komatsu — “The Savage Mouth” (1979) | Episode 46.2
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: entertainment
Containing Matters of Grotesque Gastronomy.
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Gregory, Sinda and McCaffery, Larry — “Not just a Gibson Clone: An Interview with Goro Masaki” https://web.archive.org/web/20070927045310/http://www.center…asaki.html.
Tatsumi, Takayuki — “Generations and Controversies — An Overview of Japanese Science Fiction, 1957–1997″, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Mar., 2000)
Oct 31, 2024
Chip-based optical tweezers manipulate microparticles and cells from a distance
Posted by Cecile G. Tamura in categories: biotech/medical, computing, tractor beam
Chip-based tractor beam Integrated optical tweezers use an intensely focused beam of light to capture and manipulate biological particles without damaging the cells.
Optical manipulation techniques are garnering increased interest for biological applications.
Optical manipulation techniques are garnering increased interest for biological applications. Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have now developed a miniature, chip-based optical trap that acts as a “tractor beam” for studying DNA, classifying cells and investigating disease mechanisms. The device – which is small enough to fit in your hand – is made from a silicon-photonics chip and can manipulate particles up to 5 mm away from the chip surface, while maintaining a sterile environment for cells.
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Oct 31, 2024
Thread by @awiltschko on Thread Reader App
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: engineering, transportation
Thread#showTweet data-screenname= awiltschko data-tweet=1851327552490733686 dir= auto Well, we actually did it. We digitized scent. A fresh summer plum was the first fruit and scent to be fully digitized and reprinted with no human intervention. It smells great.
Holy moly, I’m still processing the magnitude of what we’ve done. And yet, it feels like as we cross this finish line we are instantly at a new starting line. I’ll have more to share about what’s in store that we’re building on top of this.
A huge HUGE congrats to the entire team across scientific, engineering, operational, and creative disciplines. It takes a village named Osmo to do this.
Oct 31, 2024
NASA Endorses Initial Deployment Of 400 Starlink Satellites Closer To Earth, Will Conduct Study To Gauge Impact On Travel To And From ISS
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: internet, satellites
November will bring plenty to see in the night sky, including meteor showers rich with fireballs and a celestial alignment with the moon.
Oct 31, 2024
When, where and how to watch Leonid meteor shower?
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
The earthlings are yet again going to experience the breathtaking celestial event known as Leonid meteor shower which will be active from November 3 to December 2 this year and peak overnight from November 16 to 17.
When Earth travels through the debris left behind by comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle the Leonids are produced. It happens during its highly elliptical orbit around the Sun every 33 years, reported Space.
It is worth noting that the Leonids are regarded as some of the fastest meteors, zipping through the sky at 44 miles (71 kilometres) per second, as per NASA.