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https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-find-way-to-pull-carbon-out-of-the-air-and-make-it-jet-fuel

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techandscience/quantum-teleportation-was-just-achieved-with-90percent-accuracy-over-a-44km-distance/ar-BB1cnZbN?OCID=ansmsnnews11

https://phys.org/news/2020-12-korean-artificial-sun-world-sec-long.html

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)31686-9

A new signal has been detected that passes at least some of the tests for being an ET signal. The "problem" is that the signal is coming from the nearest star Proxima Centauri. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-hunters-discover-mysterious-signal-from-proxima-centauri/

Sad news :

Research Article in ASTRONOMY The arches of chaos in the Solar System by Nataša Todorović(1), Di Wu(2) and Aaron J. Rosengren(3) 1Belgrade Astronomical Observatory, Belgrade, Serbia. 2Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. 3Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. Abstract Space manifolds act as the boundaries of dynamic…

I don't know what to believe it or not. What the hell is this all about? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/08/robot-wrote-this-article-gpt-3

what is holographic? A holographic storing process save data as a discrete arrangement of snapshots within the thickness of the media. The storage process starts with the splitting of a laser beam into the two signals. Among two of which one beam serves as a reference signal, whereas other beam serve to carry the and therefore, known as data-carrying beam. https://www.infoglint.com/what-is-holographic/

"scientists have discovered something peculiar about the CMB. A new measurement technique has revealed hints of a twist in the light - something that could be a sign of a violation of parity symmetry, hinting at physics outside the Standard Model". https://www.sciencealert.com/a-twist-in-the-background-radiation-of-the-universe-hints-at-new-physics

China has 'successfully' activated its own version of a Tokamak fusion reactor China successfully activates nuclear-powered ‘artificial sun’ (msn.com) China has been collaborating with ITER on such developments. It will be interesting to see if they have implemented any new solutions or technologies to the problem.

The way in which they did this was by placing a Gadolinium atom inside a Buckyball. youtube link deleted

Here's a really interesting video on the MOSAIC expedition, which was the largest expedition to the Arctic of all time. It is an casual interview with the co-coordinator of the expedition, Dr. Matthew Shupe and overall it is really informative and engaging. Just thought I would share the link here in case anyone is interested: Link removed as there was no follow-up discussion.

Scientists from the University of Queensland claim to have found a possible mechanism for time travel. Laypeople-level account: https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2020/09/young-physicist-squares-numbers’-time-travel The paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/aba4bc/pdf The abstract: The paper is highly mathematical, and I haven't found the time to take a more detailed look at this topic. I've just learnt about it. It seems that the key idea is to find plausible trajectories in phase-space for particles in the background geometry. That wasn't very informative. Sorry I can't say anything else significant right now. …

You may or may not have heard about the "Wall of Fire" discovered by V2. The basics are, interstellar winds disrupted by the heliosphere form a thick blanket of plasma between us and the Oort cloud. Here's a short summary, with some additional sources listed therein: https://futurism.com/the-byte/solar-system-blanketed-giant-wall-fire/ Here's something to ponder regarding this subject. How is it that comets from the Oort cloud remain frozen after having passed through this barrier and into the heliosphere?

https://phys.org/news/2020-11-greenhouse-gas-emissions-global.html

Interesting noises are coming from the LHCb 'beauty' experiment. Analysis of angular data in decay B+→K*+μ+μ- reveal a 'tension' between the data and predictions of bare Standard Model. It seems that the results appear at the level of corrections via virtual particles. https://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/Welcome.html (My emphasis.)

A team of scientists has a new idea for how to save migrating blue whales from dangerous collisions with ships: shut up and listen. https://www.tectalk.co/scientists-suggest-teaching-ships-to-speak-whale-language/

Here is an extract from an excellent modern data source about symtoms of Covid 19 in the long term that may be of interest. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54296223

https://www.livescience.com/aliens-spot-earth-exoplanets.html

Our skeptic hero, James Randi, has died, age 92. RIP https://web.randi.org/home/james-randi-has-died

...and all I can think of is more efficient drivers for my flashlights: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/physics-first-room-temperature-superconductor-discovery?utm_source=Reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=r_science&fbclid=IwAR23F2iSASF7zy780H3PI3qVwNNM7ejoF7uWRmAza4j6FeASxnbNf7CDLJI

Superconductors, through which an electric current can pass without loss, have long been seen as offering great potential in such applications as transmission of electric power. The downside is that superconduction was initially found only at temperatures close to absolute zero. Years of experiment have led to demonstrations at substantially higher temperatures, but still well below room temperature - one of the goals of the research. Now the good news: reported in this Nature article, researchers have achieved superconduction in a carbonaceous sulphur hydride system at a temperature of 15o C. And the bad news: this occurs at pressures between 140 to 275 gigapas…

I would hate to be sitting on a bank watching this tide roll in https://www.msn.com/en-ca/weather/topstories/astronomers-capture-death-by-spaghettification-as-black-hole-shreds-a-star/ar-BB1a1COG?ocid=msedgntp One caveat ... "The idea of a black hole 'sucking in' a nearby star sounds like science fiction." and it is. BHs don't 'suck', they just gravitate.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/2020-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-awarded-for-crispr-to-charpentier-and-doudna-20201007/