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Apr 28, 2024

Cancer Vaccination as a Promising New Treatment Against Tumors

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Vaccination has beaten back infections for more than a century. Now, it may be the next big step in battling cancer.

Apr 28, 2024

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Stumbled On A Glistening Lava Lake On Jupiter’s Moon Io

Posted by in category: space

NASA’s Juno spacecraft recently spotted a glassy-smooth lava lake amid the volcanic hellscape of Jupiter’s moon Io.

When Juno’s orbit swooped past Io last December, its cameras captured a mirrorlike reflection from a small patch of the moon’s surface. The strangely shiny landmark turns out to be a lava lake, covered with a thin crust of smooth, gleaming volcanic rock. The rock was probably something like obsidian, a natural glass that forms from cooling magma here on Earth. Known as Loki Patera, the lava lake stretches 127 miles long and is dotted with rocky islands, and its edges glow with heat from the molten magma just beneath the surface.

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Apr 28, 2024

Can ancient tunnels cool 21st-century heat in summer?“ data-reactroot=”

Posted by in category: futurism

In Seville, 3,000-year-old underground technology is being transformed in modern day air-conditioning.

Apr 28, 2024

Research demonstrates a new mechanism of order formation in quantum systems

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics

Researchers Kazuaki Takasan and Kyogo Kawaguchi of the University of Tokyo with Kyosuke Adachi of RIKEN, Japan, have demonstrated that ferromagnetism, an ordered state of atoms, can be induced by increasing particle motility and that repulsive forces between atoms are sufficient to maintain it.

The discovery not only extends the concept of active matter to but also contributes to the development of novel technologies that rely on the magnetic properties of particles, such as magnetic memory and quantum computing. The findings were published in the journal Physical Review Research.

Flocking birds, swarming bacteria, cellular flows. These are all examples of active matter, a state in which individual agents, such as birds, bacteria, or cells, self-organize. The agents change from a disordered to an ordered state in what is called a “phase transition.” As a result, they move together in an organized fashion without an external controller.

Apr 28, 2024

U.S. produces the energy everyone is looking for: 900 MW at the largest plant in the world

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U.S. produces the most futuristic energy, the same that all countries are looking for: 900 MW with this massive natural monument.

Apr 28, 2024

TSMC to build massive chips twice the size of today’s largest — chips will use thousands of watts of power

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

120x120mm chips with 12 HBM4E stacks in 2027.

Apr 28, 2024

I’m using my synesthesia to create a new genre of AI art. The technology can ‘read’ my paintings and help me compose music

Posted by in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI

Shane Guffogg is an artist with synesthesia and says he hears colors when he paints. He said AI helped him “unlock the musicality” in his work.

Apr 28, 2024

Nasal Spray Safely Treats Recurrent Abnormal Heart Rhythms, Clinical trial suggests

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

A clinical trial led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators showed that a nasal spray that patients administer at home, without a physician, successfully and safely treated recurrent episodes of a condition that causes rapid abnormal heart rhythms. The study, published March 25 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, provides real-world evidence that a wide range of patients can safely and effectively use the experimental drug, called etripamil, to treat recurrent paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT) episodes at home, potentially sparing them the need for repeated hospital trips for more invasive treatments.

The study is the latest in a series of studies by lead author Dr. James Ip, professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a cardiologist at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, and colleagues to demonstrate the potential of nasal spray calcium-channel blocker etripamil as an at-home treatment PSVT.

Dr. Ip received compensation as a steering committee member for Milestone Pharmaceuticals, the maker of etripamil and sponsor of the trial.

Apr 28, 2024

CSIRO Telescope detects unprecedented Behaviour from Nearby Magnetar

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Researchers using Murriyang, CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope, have detected unusual radio pulses from a previously dormant star with a powerful magnetic field.

New results published today in Nature Astronomy describe radio signals from magnetar XTE J1810-197 behaving in complex ways.

Magnetars are a type of neutron star and the strongest magnets in the Universe. At roughly 8,000 light years away, this magnetar is also the closest known to Earth.

Apr 28, 2024

Could New Technique for ‘Curving’ Light be the Secret to Improved Wireless Communication?

Posted by in categories: futurism, internet

A study that could help revolutionize wireless communication introduces a novel method to curve terahertz signals around an obstacle.

While cellular networks and Wi-Fi systems are more advanced than ever, they are also quickly reaching their bandwidth limits. Scientists know that in the near future they’ll need to transition to much higher communication frequencies than what current systems rely on, but before that can happen there are a number of — quite literal — obstacles standing in the way.

Researchers from Brown University and Rice University say they’ve advanced one step closer to getting around these solid obstacles, like walls, furniture and even people — and they do it by curving light.

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