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May 16, 2024

SPECULOOS Project Discovers Earth-Sized Planet Around Ultra-Cool Star

Posted by in categories: evolution, space

SPECULOOS-3 b is practically the same size as our planet,” said Dr. Michaël Gillon. “A year, i.e. an orbit around the star, lasts around 17 hours. Days and nights, on the other hand, should never end.


What types of exoplanets can dwarf stars possess? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of international researchers announced the discovery of SPECULOOS 3 b, which is an Earth-sized exoplanet located approximately 55 light-years from Earth orbiting an ultra-cool dwarf star. What makes this study unique is astronomers know very little about dwarf stars and the exoplanets that could potentially orbit them, despite the number of dwarf stars outnumbering Sun-like stars throughout the cosmos. This study holds the potential to help astronomers better understand the formation and evolution of exoplanets around smaller stars and what the implications for finding life beyond Earth.

“SPECULOOS-3 b is practically the same size as our planet,” said Dr. Michaël Gillon, who is a professor at the University of Liège and first author of the study. “A year, i.e. an orbit around the star, lasts around 17 hours. Days and nights, on the other hand, should never end. We believe that the planet rotates synchronously, so that the same side, called the day side, always faces the star, just like the Moon does for the Earth. On the other hand, the night side hand, would be locked in endless darkness.”

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May 16, 2024

Scientists control daily biological clock of algae, advancing biomedicine

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry

Carl H. Johnson, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Biological Sciences, along with a team of Vanderbilt scientists, have succeeded in adjusting the daily biological clock of cyanobacteria, making the blue-green algae a more prolific producer of renewable fuels, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals like insulin.

May 16, 2024

Meta Just Made It Easier for Small Developers to Get Apps Into the Main Quest Store

Posted by in category: computing

Quest users searching the Store will now be able to more easily find games published through its early access distribution channel, App Lab, which previously weren’t visible, effectively giving smaller studios a more level playing field.

Meta is making its operating system and app store available on third-party VR headsets sometime soon, and one of the bigger changes coming to the platform is the blurring of the barrier between the Main Store and App Lab.

Besides offering a way for studios to publish their titles in early access, App Lab also lets any developer who meets basic technical and content requirements ship software on the platform, effectively making it open to studios of any size.

May 16, 2024

How To Get GPT-4o With Free ChatGPT

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Here’s what you need to access OpenAI’s newest generative AI model.

May 16, 2024

New advance in wireless communications could help precisely pinpoint the locations of people and objects

Posted by in category: innovation

Engineers from University of Glasgow and colleagues from the U.K. and Australia are behind a research breakthrough in a developing form of wireless communications could help precisely pinpoint the locations of people and objects indoors.

May 16, 2024

Finding credible pathways to net-zero emissions: The challenge of scaling up an emerging electrification technology

Posted by in categories: chemistry, energy, sustainability

Chemical and material engineering professor, Adnan Khan, has spent the past 15 years focusing his research on developing sustainable technologies aimed at decarbonizing our energy systems. “This is the most important challenge we face today. We owe this to our future generations,” he says.

May 16, 2024

Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count

Posted by in categories: computing, information science

By making use of randomness, a team has created a simple algorithm for estimating large numbers of distinct objects in a stream of data.

May 16, 2024

Rumor: Intel Arrow Lake CPUs to Come In Either 16+8 or 6+8 Core Configurations

Posted by in category: computing

It’s still unknown if these CPUs are using Intel 20A or TSMC 3nm.

May 16, 2024

Spoor uses AI to save birds from wind turbines

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, sustainability

Spur uses computer vision to help companies monitor and predict how a wind farm will impact a local bird population.

May 16, 2024

The Stem Cell Podcast

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

In episode 267 of the Stem Cell Podcast, we chat with Dr. Shankar Srinivas, a Professor of Developmental Biology in the Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics based in the Institute for Developmental and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Oxford. He is also a Zeitlyn Fellow and Tutor in Medicine at Jesus College. Using mouse and human embryos as model systems, his group looks at the control of patterning and morphogenesis during the establishment of the anterior-posterior axis, gastrulation, and early cardiogenesis. He discusses how tissues respond to forces during early development, characterizing cardiac progenitors, and training internationally.

Roundup Papers:
2:26 https://bit.ly/3yeD3ms.
7:14 https://bit.ly/4dKJ7nd.
19:06 https://go.nature.com/3V2SNSo.
27:10 https://go.nature.com/4dnC43H

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