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Apr 12, 2023

Lightning strike creates a material seen for the first time on Earth

Posted by in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, chemistry, climatology, existential risks

After lightning struck a tree in New Port Richey, Florida, a team of scientists from the University of South Florida (USF) discovered that this strike led to the formation of a new phosphorous material in a rock. This is the first time such a material has been found in solid form on Earth and could represent a member of a new mineral group.

“We have never seen this material occur naturally on Earth – minerals similar to it can be found in meteorites and space, but we’ve never seen this exact material anywhere,” said study lead author Matthew Pasek, a geoscientist at USF.

According to the researchers, high-energy events such as lightning can sometimes cause unique chemical reactions which, in this particular case, have led to the formation of a new material that seems to be transitional between space minerals and minerals found on Earth.

Apr 12, 2023

How Far Beyond Earth Could Humanity Expand?

Posted by in category: space travel

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Apr 12, 2023

Researchers reveal quantum interference in inter-layer Coulomb drag

Posted by in categories: materials, quantum physics

A team led by Prof. Zeng Changgan and Associate Researcher Li Lin from the University of Science and Technology (USTC) / Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, collaborating with Prof. Feng Ji’s team from Peking University, revealed significant quantum interference effect in inter-layer transport process for the first time using graphene-based electronic double-layer systems. Their work was published in Nature Communications.

Coulomb drag is an effect that occurs between two conductive layers in proximity but insulated from each other, wherein moving carriers in one layer (active layer) induces the transport of carriers in the other layer (passive layer), thereby generating an open-circuit voltage in the passive layer.

Coulomb drag has been widely applied in previous studies of long-range interactions between carriers, such as the Bose-Einstein condensation of indirect excitons. However, there is a lack of research on the external field response and possible quantum effects of the Coulomb drag.

Apr 12, 2023

Telomere Length Is Associated With Dementia Risk

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension, neuroscience

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Apr 12, 2023

Engineers 3D print soft, rubbery brain implants

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, neuroscience

Technique may enable speedy, on-demand design of softer, safer neural devices.

Apr 12, 2023

Clockwork Orange (1971): Ludovico technique

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, economics

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Apr 12, 2023

Clockwork Orange Music for the Funeral March of Queen Mary Main Title Theme

Posted by in category: media & arts

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Apr 12, 2023

Introducing Flow Performance

Posted by in category: futurism

You’ll unpack the nuances of altered states, understand your unique relationship to flow (based on an analysis of your life history). This part’s essential so you know where you Flow, and aren’t having to take anyone else’s word for it!

Apr 12, 2023

Scientists create ‘slits in time’ in mind-bending physics experiment

Posted by in categories: physics, space

Researchers replicated the classic double slit experiment using lasers, but their slits are in time not space.

Apr 12, 2023

(podcast) A conversation with Frank White

Posted by in categories: alien life, information science

Whether this “complements or contradicts existing religious value systems depends largely on the interpretation of those systems by the people who have adopted them,” said Frank. “However, my interviews with astronauts of faith suggest that their religious perspective was strengthened, rather than being weakened.”

Frank notes that his cosmology has parallels with Yuval Harari ’s “dataism,” described by Harari as the “most interesting emerging religion.” Dataism, as defined by Harari, “says that the universe consists of data flows, and the value of any phenomenon or entity is determined by its contribution to data processing.” This may sound kind of cold and metallic, but if life is an algorithm and self-awareness is data processing the parallels with Frank’s ideas are evident.

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