Steve Nichols’s research from 1979 concerning the early evolution of mind, E2 to E1. Latest research see https://posthumanuniversity.com
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Jul 24, 2023
Brain on a Chip: Research team bags grant to merge brain and AI
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: robotics/AI
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This transformative project aims to grow human brain cells on silicon chips, creating remarkable capabilities in the realm of machine learning.
Jul 24, 2023
Unleashing Cosmic Power: Energy Flow in the Universe’s Largest Shock Waves
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: education, energy, government
A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Kazuhiro Nakazawa from Nagoya University.
Nagoya University, sometimes abbreviated as NU, is a Japanese national research university located in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya. It was the seventh Imperial University in Japan, one of the first five Designated National University and selected as a Top Type university of Top Global University Project by the Japanese government. It is one of the highest ranked higher education institutions in Japan.
Jul 24, 2023
What happens to the brain during consciousness-ending meditation?
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: neuroscience
There’s a meditative state described in ancient Buddhist scriptures that is hard to imagine because it is not something – but nothing. Referred to as nirodha-samāpatti, it roughly translates as ‘the cessation of thought and feeling’, and it is the highest meditative state possible in Theravada Buddhism, following eight others called jhānas. Each jhāna requires deepening levels of concentration, and a retreat into the mind, away from typical consciousness.
According to David Vago, a psychologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and director of the Contemplative Neuroscience and Mind-Body Research Laboratory, nirodha-samāpatti refers to a ‘state of profound concentration or absorption in which all mental activity is temporarily suspended’. It’s said that the state leads to a total absence of sensation and awareness, which would help explain the stories of monks who stayed in this deep trance while fires burned around them.
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Jul 24, 2023
Excitatory nucleo-olivary pathway shapes cerebellar outputs for motor control
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: neuroscience
Complex spikes (CSs) driven by inferior olivary neurons have crucial roles in motor control. Wang et al. identified an excitatory pathway from the cerebellar nuclei to the inferior olive that drives rapid feedback CSs and contributes to the fine control of ocular and body movements.
Jul 24, 2023
Probing the Abyss: Fermilab’s Dark SRF Experiment Illuminates the Search for Dark Photons
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: cosmology, particle physics
The Dark SRF experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has achieved unprecedented sensitivity in the search for hypothetical dark photons. By innovatively employing superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities, researchers can now explore different potential mass ranges for these elusive particles, pushing the boundaries of our understanding of dark matter.
Scientists working on the Dark SRF experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have demonstrated unprecedented sensitivity in an experimental setup used to search for theorized particles called dark photons.
Researchers trapped ordinary, massless photons in devices called superconducting radio frequency cavities to look for the transition of those photons into their hypothesized dark sector counterparts. The experiment has put the world’s best constraint on the dark photon.
Jul 24, 2023
Gene therapy eyedrops restored a boy’s sight. Similar treatments could help millions
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
Dr. Alfonso Sabater pulled up two photos of Antonio Vento Carvajal’s eyes. One showed cloudy scars covering both eyeballs. The other, taken after months of gene therapy given through eyedrops, revealed no scarring on either eye.
Antonio, who’s been legally blind for much of his 14 years, can see again.
The teen was born with dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, a rare genetic condition that causes blisters all over his body and in his eyes. But his skin improved when he joined a clinical trial to test the world’s first topical gene therapy. That gave Sabater an idea: What if it could be adapted for Antonio’s eyes?
Jul 24, 2023
First Successful Transplant of Functional Cryopreserved Rat Kidney Performed
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: biotech/medical
The first successful transplantation of a cryopreserved rat kidney has indicated that long-term storage of human organs for transplantation may be possible.
Jul 24, 2023
How Oppeheimer Visualizes “Almost Magical” Shift “From Classic Physics to Quantum Physics”
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: cosmology, military, quantum physics
Similar to Interstellar, Oppenheimer (now in theaters) finds Christopher Nolan at his most abstract, with the director working overtime to ascribe a visual language to concepts just beyond our comprehension.
It wasn’t enough to simply make a biopic about the father of the atomic bomb — he needed to take us inside the extraordinary theoretical mind of J. Robert Oppenheimer (played in the film by Cillian Murphy) and show us the Big Bang-like birth of quantum physics and how it directly led to the creation of the atomic bomb.
RELATED: Oppenheimer’s Atomic Bombs Marked a New Geologic Age of Humans.
Jul 24, 2023
‘Cocaine sharks’ off Florida may be feasting on dumped bales of drugs
Posted by Liliana Alfair in category: biotech/medical
“The other thing we might find is actually this long flow, [this] drip of pharmaceuticals: caffeine, lidocaine, cocaine, amphetamine, antidepressants, birth control — this long slow drift of them from cities into the [ocean] is… starting to hit these animals,” Hird said.
Shark Week show delves into whether sharks off the coast of Florida are coming into contact with the huge quantities of cocaine that get dumped in these waters.