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Oct 31, 2024
‘Listening to scientists bicker is instructive’: physics Nobel-winner on solving problems between fields
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: physics
John Hopfield, one of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, is a true polymath.
John Hopfield has had a varied career and delights in working in the cracks between disciplines.
Oct 31, 2024
Ghost Armadas & Primordial Galactic Wars
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI
An exploration of the unsettling possibility we live in a universe of ancient galactic wars, ruins, relics, and leftover war machines scattered across the cosmos.
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Oct 31, 2024
#115 Alexander Rosenberg: Theory of Mind, History, Mental Illusions, and Nihilism
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: biological, ethics, neuroscience, robotics/AI
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Oct 31, 2024
Huntington’s Discovery Could Lead to New Treatments
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry
“This research marks the first time that we have been able to identify a specific chemical change that is unique to the development of Huntington’s disease, which opens the possibility of developing new tests to study the early changes of the disease before irreversible damage occurs.”
U.K. and German researchers are hopeful that their discovery of a key biochemical change involved in the development of Huntington’s disease could lead to its early detection and treatment.
Oct 31, 2024
Researchers uncover shared molecular mechanisms across three types of dementia
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Alzheimer’s disease, fronto temporal dementia and progressive supra nuclear palsy. Using this study design, the investigators found four genes that marked vulnerable neurons across all three disorders, highlighting pathways that could be used to develop new therapeutic approaches.
The discovery of genes that marked vulnerable neurons could open options for therapeutic approaches.
Oct 31, 2024
Giant Clams Are Marvels of Solar Energy
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: solar power, sustainability
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.