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Sep 8, 2024
Scientists use food dye found in Doritos to make see-through mice
Posted by Chris Smedley in categories: biotech/medical, food
Food dye transformed the skin of mice into a living window revealing blood vessels, muscle fibers and gut contractions, according to a new study.
Sep 8, 2024
Scientists make major discovery while working with scrap EV batteries: ‘The need for developing sustainable recycling methods is pressing’
Posted by Arthur Brown in categories: chemistry, sustainability
Researchers have discovered a game-changing method for recycling lithium-ion batteries — without using hazardous chemicals.
Sep 8, 2024
This ‘Holy Grail’ Protein Repairs DNA And Could Lead to a Cancer Vaccine
Posted by Arthur Brown in category: biotech/medical
Scientists have discovered a protein that can directly halt DNA damage. Better yet, a new study shows it appears to be ‘plug and play’, theoretically able to slot into any organism, making it a promising candidate for a cancer vaccine.
DNA damage response protein C (DdrC) was found in a hardy little bacterium called Deinococcus radiodurans. DdrC seems to be very effective at detecting DNA damage, putting a stop to it and alerting the cell to start the repair process.
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Sep 8, 2024
Panpsychism and Alfred North Whitehead
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: futurism, neuroscience
The wave dimension is crucial. Without the time-binding wave of consciousness established by actual entities remembering their past instant(s), experiencing, choosing, and acting in their present instants, and anticipating and then passing their inheritance on to their future instant(s), it would not be possible to begin a sentence and then go on to complete it in a way that has meaning. It would not be possible to interact with ourselves or other people in a way that has meaning. We couldn’t begin, continue, and complete a meal. We would forget where we were and what we were doing. We couldn’t begin, continue, and complete a walk. We would forget where we were and what we were doing. We couldn’t undertake any complex task and remember what we were doing. We certainly couldn’t drive a car or even cross a street.
If we pay attention to our own consciousnesses closely, we find that, as each moment of our experience transpires, we take in sensations from outside in the world and inside in our bodies and then we layer feelings and thoughts and images on top of these sensations to form a moment of experience with some coherence and meaning. And this moment of experience passes its sensations and feelings and thoughts and images on to the next moment of experience with some relative coherence.
Now, with an untrained mind, our sensations and feelings and thoughts and images kind of jump around outside of our control. But with a relatively trained mind, we can focus in a way that allows us to maintain a constant stream of sensations and feelings and thoughts and images and choose what we want to focus that stream on in an expansion of our consciousnesses. That is the gift of mindfulness and meditation. Using Whitehead’s language, we can say that we can work to shift our mental prehensions to embrace a different and more powerful form or idea of what it is to be human.
Sep 8, 2024
Revisiting the dynamics of interacting vector-like dark energy
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: cosmology, evolution, information science
We revise the dynamics of interacting vector-like dark energy, a theoretical framework proposed to explain the accelerated expansion of the universe. By investigating the interaction between vector-like dark energy and dark matter, we analyze its effects on the cosmic expansion history and the thermodynamics of the accelerating universe. Our results demonstrate that the presence of interaction significantly influences the evolution of vector-like dark energy, leading to distinct features in its equation of state and energy density. We compare our findings with observational data and highlight the importance of considering interactions in future cosmological studies.
Sep 8, 2024
New large scale gene editing technique
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics
A novel method utilising genes in our body to perform long-sequence DNA recombination and editing, called the RNA bridge, has been discovered and reported by genetic engineers. ThePrint #̦PureScience, Sandhya Ramesh explains the findings and implications.
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Sep 8, 2024
Dissociative and prioritized modeling of behaviorally relevant neural dynamics using recurrent neural networks
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: robotics/AI
The authors present DPAD, a deep learning method, for dynamical neural–behavioral modeling. It dissociates behaviorally relevant neural dynamics, better predicts neural–behavioral data and reveals insight into where their nonlinearities can be isolated.
Sep 8, 2024
One of the universe’s biggest paradoxes could be even weirder than we thought, James Webb telescope study reveals
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: space
New James Webb Space Telescope results have revealed that there may not be a Hubble tension after all. But contradictions within the findings point to a deeper mystery.
New James Webb Space Telescope observations may have done with one of the longest-standing tensions in cosmology.
For almost a decade, astronomers have been struggling with a nagging mismatch between two different ways of determining the Hubble constant — a measure of the current expansion rate of the universe. This mismatch, known as the Hubble tension, has led to claims that new physics might be needed to solve the issue. (Read about the “constant controversy” in the June 2019 issue of Sky & Telescope.)
But a detailed analysis of a new set of James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations now suggests that the problem may not exist. “As Carl Sagan said, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” says Wendy Freedman (University of Chicago), “and I don’t see extraordinary evidence.”