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THE ARTEMIS TRAP — Why We’re Designing for Failure

NASA’s Lunar program is destined to fail if BIG changes aren’t made fast. Especially the plans for Artemis II to land humans on the moon.

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An agentic system for rare disease diagnosis with traceable reasoning

DeepRare—a multi-agent system for rare disease differential diagnosis decision support powered by large language models, integrating specialized tools and up-to-date knowledge sources—has the potential to reduce healthcare disparities in rare disease diagnosis.

Associations of Lifetime Cognitive Enrichment With Incident Alzheimer Disease Dementia, Cognitive Aging, and Cognitive Resilience

Study results suggest that cognitive health in later life is in part the product of lifetime exposure to cognitive enrichment.


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A Reflection on Movement Disorders Fellowship Training in Deep Brain Stimulation: Past and Future

A Reflection on Movement Disorders —Fellowship Training in Deep Brain Stimulation: Past and Future.


Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been an integral part of movement disorders care for decades. However, differences exist in techniques for surgical implantation of DBS and clinician experience with DBS systems, including use of new software, programming approaches, and postsurgical management of patients. DBS technologies have been rapidly advancing, and indications for DBS are increasing, including for psychiatric symptoms and epilepsy. The heterogeneity in the scope and utility of DBS is perhaps mirrored in education and training, despite efforts to develop competency measures for trainees. These advancements in DBS and the varying opportunities offered at each fellowship contribute to challenges for program directors to establish and implement consistent expectations. Similar challenges have been observed in other fields using neuromodulation.

Ritual Chambers of the Andes: Used in Secret, Near Death Simulations

What if everything you thought you knew about the ancient Inka was wrong? History tells us they were master builders, but what if their most impressive structures were never meant for the dead at all? New evidence from the mysterious chullpa towers of Sillustani and Cutimbo reveals something far more extraordinary: these megalithic chambers were not tombs, but carefully engineered portals for a secret ritual of “living resurrection.”

This ancient practice, known to initiates from Egypt to China, from the Essenes beneath Mount Sion to the philosophers of Greece, allowed a living candidate to journey voluntarily to the Otherworld and return, risen, with first-hand knowledge of the cosmos. The same ritual echoes through the empty sarcophagi of Egypt, the suppressed Gospels of early Christianity, and the secret rites of the Knights Templar. And now, encoded in stone on the high Andean plateau, the chullpas of Peru whisper the same forbidden truth.

Forget what the history books taught you. The real story is stranger, older, and infinitely more profound.

A giant weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field is now half the size of Europe

Earth’s magnetic shield is shifting in dramatic ways. New data from ESA’s Swarm satellites show that the South Atlantic Anomaly — a vast weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field — has grown by nearly half the size of continental Europe since 2014. Even more striking, a region southwest of Africa has begun weakening even faster in recent years, hinting at unusual activity deep within Earth’s molten outer core.

New diamond growth method slashes device temperatures by 41°F

What started as a fun experiment to create a decorative diamond “owl” for distinguished guests has evolved into a scalable manufacturing process for electronics.

Researchers at Rice University have developed a bottom-up method for growing patterned diamond surfaces to cool electronics.

The technique enables diamonds to be integrated directly into devices, reducing operating temperatures by 23°C (41°F).

A protocol to realize near-perfect atom-photon entanglement

Quantum technologies, devices and systems that operate leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could tackle some tasks more reliably and efficiently than any classical technology could. In recent years, some researchers have been trying to realize quantum networks to scale up the size of quantum computers, which essentially consist of several connected smaller quantum processors.

The devices in a quantum network are connected via entanglement, a quantum effect via which distant quantum particles become inextricably linked and share a single correlated state. One way to create entanglement between different atomic quantum computers is to use an atom-cavity interface, a system in which atoms interact with light inside an optical cavity.

Over two decades ago, two physicists at the University of Aarhus introduced a protocol designed to produce high-quality entangled states, reliably connecting devices in a network. Despite its potential, this framework, known as the state-carving (SC) protocol, was found to only succeed in 50% of cases, which has so far prevented its application on a large scale.

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