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Standardization Versus Adaptability: Where Is the Sweet Spot?
New in practicalRO.
Standardization in clinical workflows is widely recognized as a driver of safety, efficiency, and consistency. The challenge for modern practice is determining the appropriate degree and rigidity of standardization, especially as automation and adaptive technologies reshape workflows.
đŹSearching the Space of All Possible Materials â Prof. Max Welling, CuspAI
Editorâs note: raised a $100m Series A in September and is rumored to have reached a unicorn valuation. They have all-star advisors from Geoff Hinton to Yann Lecun and team of deep domain experts to tackle this next frontier in AI applications.
Major battery breakthrough paving way for EV upgrade
Chinese scientists have developed a lithium metal battery that boasts an energy density of more than 700 watt-hours per kilogram and stable performance at extremely low temperatures, marking a significant advancement in the production of high-energy batteries for electric vehicles. The research paper was published on Thursday in the science journal Nature.
Chen Jun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and vice-president of Nankai University in Tianjin, was among the researchers who led the breakthrough. Chen said the team has replaced oxygen atoms with fluorine ones. It designed and synthesized novel fluorinated hydrocarbon solvent molecules, creating a new electrolyte system based on lithium-fluorine coordination.
Dr. Ted Brown: O.G. Cryonicist
Ted Brown has been involved in cryonics since the 1960s.
The 5 Foods Every 100-Year-Old Ate Daily (Blue Zones Diet Breakdown)
The controversial diet truth backed by 155 dietary surveys across 90 years that food scientists donât want you to know.
Dan Buettner exposes why meta-analyses prove most nutritional debates wrong and reveals what centenarians actually ate as children to live past 100.
The peasant food formula thatâs cheaper than a hamburger, 50 times more nutrient dense, and leaves you completely satisfied.
Plus why the 15 countries with the highest life expectancy all eat white rice daily.
Dan Buettner is a New York Times bestselling author, National Geographic Fellow, and co-producer of the Emmy Award winning Netflix series Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones.
Beam me to the stars: Scientists propose wild new interstellar travel tech
If we are ever going to be go beyond the solar system, to share the miracle of Earth Life, itâs clear that we will need radical new ways of getting there.
One such solution that was recently proposed uses electron beams accelerated to near the speed of light to propel spacecraft, something that could overcome the vast distances between Earth and the next closest star. âFor interstellar flight, the primary challenge is that the distances are so great,â Greason explained. âAlpha Centauri is 4.3 light-years away; about 2,000 times further away from the sun than the Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached â the furthest spacecraft weâve ever sent into deep space so far. No one is likely to fund a scientific mission that takes much longer than 30 years to return the data â that means we need to fly fast.â
A study by Greason and Gerrit Bruhaug, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, published in the journal Acta Astronautica, highlights that reaching practical interstellar speeds hinges on the ability to deliver sufficient amounts of kinetic energy to the spacecraft in an economic way.
âInterstellar flight requires us to collect and control vast amounts of energy to achieve speeds fast enough to be useful,â said Greason. âChemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from [âŠ] swinging by the sun for a boost, just donât have the ability to scale to useful interstellar speeds.â
Where Biology Meets Resonance: Light, Vibration, and Living Order
When we think about biology, we usually picture chemistry: molecules bumping into each other, enzymes reacting, and signals spreading by diffusion. That picture is realâbut it may be incomplete. In my recent paper in Harmonic Science Perspectives (Vol 1, Issue 1), I propose a complementary layer of cellular organization: a fast, coordination-capable âresonance networkâ that uses three interchangeable carriers of energy and information.
IntroductionA simple picture: three messengers that can translate into one anotherWhere this shows up in the body: mitochondria and microtubules as a coupled networkWhy interconversion matters: translation is the key featureResonant synchronization: a possible mechanism for cellular timingTherapeutic implications: why light and sound therapies might work better togetherA note on whatâs established vs whatâs proposedConclusion: a new lens on living organization
Those three carriers are light (photons), vibration/sound-like mechanical waves (phonons), and mobile electronic excitations in biomolecules (excitons). The central idea is simple to state even if the details are deep: living systems may continuously convert energy back and forth between these three modes to synchronize activity across space and time inside the cellâand potentially across tissues.