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Dec 21, 2018
Huge collision billions of years ago caused Uranus to become lopsided
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
Dec 21, 2018
Astronomers Found Ancient Remains of a Big Bang “Fossil Cloud”
Posted by Michael Lance in category: cosmology
And it could reveal secrets about the origins of our universe.
And it’s billions of years old.
Dec 21, 2018
That feeling when Saturn V’s 7.6 million pounds of thrust propel you on the path to the Moon
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space travel
Dec 21, 2018
Cold atoms offer a glimpse of flat physics
Posted by Xavier Rosseel in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics
These days, movies and video games render increasingly realistic 3D images on 2-D screens, giving viewers the illusion of gazing into another world. For many physicists, though, keeping things flat is far more interesting.
One reason is that flat landscapes can unlock new movement patterns in the quantum world of atoms and electrons. For instance, shedding the third dimension enables an entirely new class of particles to emerge—particles that that don’t fit neatly into the two classes, bosons and fermions, provided by nature. These new particles, known as anyons, change in novel ways when they swap places, a feat that could one day power a special breed of quantum computer.
But anyons and the conditions that produce them have been exceedingly hard to spot in experiments. In a pair of papers published this week in Physical Review Letters, JQI Fellow Alexey Gorshkov and several collaborators proposed new ways of studying this unusual flat physics, suggesting that small numbers of constrained atoms could act as stand-ins for the finicky electrons first predicted to exhibit low-dimensional quirks.
Dec 21, 2018
Plant Hallucinogen Holds Hope for Diabetes Treatment
Posted by Xavier Rosseel in category: biotech/medical
A potent molecular cocktail containing a compound from ayahuasca spurs rapid growth of insulin-producing cells.
- By Emily Willingham on December 21, 2018
Happy holidays! The winter break is here, and LEAF too will shift to a lower gear for a little while, but on the plus side, our readers get the Rejuvenation Roundup early! Before we leave you to unwrapping presents and having dinner with the family, let’s recap what has been going on in the field of rejuvenation during the last month of the year.
Dec 21, 2018
Water on Mars PICTURED: ESA shares incredible IMAGES of Martian ice crater
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: futurism, space
HUGE skating rink?
The European Space Agency has shared an incredible composite image showing a 50-mile wide crater on Mars that is filled with water ice all year long.
Budding future colonists hoping for a white Christmas on Mars will be somewhat disappointed as the ESA has confirmed that sitting in the Korolev crater is, in fact, a thick block of water ice, not snow. The enormous, 82-kilometer-wide, 2-kilometer-deep “ice trap” could still be good for ice skating though.