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Forensic anthropologist Amy Mundorff measures the depth of a grave as the remote sensing research project gets underway.
Amy Smotherman Burgess/Knoxville News Sentinel/Zuma.
Mundorff knew from her own searches for buried murder victims in the United States that investigators often fail locate hidden graves, but she didn’t expect it to be so difficult in Bosnia-Herzegovina: The country is smaller than Louisiana, and the whereabouts of 8,000 people remain unknown.
Jun 3, 2019
Los Angeles transit to install body scanners that will screen for weapons and explosives
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: terrorism, transportation
Jun 3, 2019
Researchers reveal how to track down a corpse
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Jun 3, 2019
The US Army’s Next Rifle May Use Facial Recognition
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
Jun 3, 2019
New Gene-Editing Method Could Lead To “Creation of a Super-Baby”
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
Jun 3, 2019
Brush your teeth—postpone Alzheimer’s
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Researchers have determined that gum disease (gingivitis) plays a decisive role in whether a person develops Alzheimer´s or not.
“We discovered DNA-based proof that the bacteria causing gingivitis can move from the mouth to the brain,” says researcher Piotr Mydel at Broegelmanns Research Laboratory, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen (UiB).
The bacteria produces a protein that destroys nerve cells in the brain, which in turn leads to loss of memory and ultimately, Alzheimer´s.
Jun 3, 2019
Not Talking About Mental Health Is Literally Killing Men
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: health, neuroscience
Jun 3, 2019
Something’s Hiding in Our Outer Solar System, But It Might Not Be Planet Nine
Posted by John Gallagher in categories: physics, space
Somewhere in the outer reaches of the Solar System, beyond the orbit of Neptune, something wonky is happening. A few objects are orbiting differently from everything else, and we don’t know why.
A popular hypothesis is that an unseen object called Planet Nine could be messing with these orbits; astronomers are avidly searching for this planet. But earlier this year physicists came up with an alternative explanation they think is more plausible.
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Jun 3, 2019
Physicists can predict the jumps of Schrodinger’s cat (and finally save it)
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: particle physics, quantum physics
Yale researchers have figured out how to catch and save Schrödinger’s famous cat, the symbol of quantum superposition and unpredictability, by anticipating its jumps and acting in real time to save it from proverbial doom. In the process, they overturn years of cornerstone dogma in quantum physics.
The discovery enables researchers to set up an early warning system for imminent jumps of artificial atoms containing quantum information. A study announcing the discovery appears in the June 3 online edition of the journal Nature.
Schrödinger’s cat is a well-known paradox used to illustrate the concept of superposition—the ability for two opposite states to exist simultaneously—and unpredictability in quantum physics. The idea is that a cat is placed in a sealed box with a radioactive source and a poison that will be triggered if an atom of the radioactive substance decays. The superposition theory of quantum physics suggests that until someone opens the box, the cat is both alive and dead, a superposition of states. Opening the box to observe the cat causes it to abruptly change its quantum state randomly, forcing it to be either dead or alive.
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