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I found this article. I don't know what it is worth. https://www.insidewalessport.co.uk/an-earlier-universe-existed-before-the-big-bang-and-can-be-observed-today/ Here is the reason and the deduction from this explanation: What is behind this singularity would then be that the much sought-after antimatter. So this thread has a strong potential to go into speculation... Sir Roger Penrose has recently published his theory of ‘Hawking Points’ (a crucial element in the discovery of a pre-exiting universe) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society CREDIT: APA Picturedesk Gmbh/Shutterstock/APA Picturedesk Gmbh/Shutterstock Sir Roger Penrose: T…

Breaking news: https://nationalpost.com/pmn/health-pmn/penrose-genzel-and-ghez-win-2020-nobel-prize-for-physics Much focus on gravitation lately. Will this be the era of gravity? Would Hawking have won the Nobel Prize had he been living today?

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-predict-how-long-humans-can-survive-radiation-on-the-moon

Can read more of the article here: https://astronomy.com/news/2020/09/rodents-in-space-keeping-bone-and-muscle-strong-on-the-iss Really happy about this as it will make moving between different levels of gravity easier and make living in lower gravity long term much more viable.

Apparently Dark Matter is 'darker' than previously thought. It seems that the gravitational lensing produced by Dark Matter distributions in certain galaxy clusters is up to 10x greater than expected from galactic rotations and orbits ( motions ). Indcating that not only are we in the 'dark' as to its make-up, but also distributions and/or properties. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/weather/topstories/astronomers-discover-a-surprise-twist-in-the-mystery-of-dark-matter/ar-BB18Wylr?ocid=msedgntp

https://scitechdaily.com/black-hole-plasma-conditions-created-on-earth-laser-briefly-uses-1000-times-the-electric-consumption-of-the-entire-globe/

Maybe not all that revealing, as it looks very much like the caustics of clusters and superclusters of galaxies, and these are supposed to have clustered around DM, but beautiful to look at nonetheless. https://sciencesprings.wordpress.com/2020/09/07/from-harvard-smithsonian-center-for-astrophysics-scientists-zoom-in-on-dark-matter-revealing-the-invisible-skeleton-of-the-universe/ The possibility of detecting radiation from collisions seems the most interesting claim:

Seems a massive ( record breaking 142 Ms ) Black Hole was created from the collision of a 66 Ms and 85 Ms BHs. https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/discovery-of-record-breaking-black-hole-collision-surprises-astronomers ( amazing what you find when you go check tomorrow's weather ) Published today from researchers at UBC. ( that's close to Mordred's stomping grounds ) edit I guess now muruep00 knows how supermassive BHs grow in galactic centers, without the need for negative energy, or time transformations.

A novel application of standard membrane technology similar to that used in sealed system hot water tanks to stabilise the oxygen supply from a concentrator in places where the electricity supply is unreliable. This is of particular use in developing countries where many many pneumonia sufferers are at risk and often children. Pneumonia (often called 'the old man's friend') is apparently the biggest cause of death in under 5's in the world. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-53918830

https://astronomynow.com/2020/08/24/nearby-supernova-blasts-may-be-culprits-in-at-least-one-mass-extinction/

Location of Comet NEOWISE from July 27 to August 2, 2020. Facing west-northwest shortly after dusk, as seen from the U.S. See how the curve in the Big Dipper’s handle points to the bright star Arcturus? For a specific view – shortly after your local dusk – from your specific location on the globe, try Stellarium. Illustration by Eddie Irizarry using Stellarium. https://earthsky.org

According to a new paper Mars was not a water world in the deep past but an ice world. Rivers and alluvial fans were most likely made under a covering of ices says a paper in Nature Geoscience. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2020/08/04/was-mars-once-the-white-planet-ice-sheets-not-rivers-created-martian-valleys-say-scientists

Talking of species, as we were in another thread, the idea that two species cannot inter-breed or hybridise is shown to be false in many examples. Here is an amazing example of a hybrid of two different species that are also from two different genera, and even different families: https://www.quantamagazine.org/extra-dna-may-make-unlikely-hybrid-fish-possible-20200805/

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-fastest-star.amp

T cell responses (especially T helper cells CD4) are an important element of the immune memory. A few studies have now found that convalescent folks with mild or no symptoms show detectable T cell responses, which is positive news. (Sekine et al. 2020 Cell (preproof); biorxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.26.115832v1). A couple of other preliminary studies seem to suggest that even antibody responses may be present for longer than previously anticipated (e.g. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.01.20166553v1, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.11.20171843v2) . So we are seeing an increasing number of studie…

Here is a new study on quantum tunneling Physicists watch quantum particles tunnel through solid barriers. Here's what they found. https://www.livescience.com/quantum-tunneling-observed-and-measured.html

A newly discovered four-quark particle (illustrated) is the first to contain all heavy quarks, and more than two quarks of the same kind. CERN https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-particle-cern-tetraquark-first-four-same-kind-quark

Disclaimer: Black hole not visible, southern hemisphere required. https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/06/nearest_black_hole_earth/

"A team of European archaeologists uncovered evidence that humans may have been in the Americas for twice as long as previously believed" https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/artifacts-may-have-unearthed-new-timeline-of-human-arrival-in-the-americas Source article: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8548977/First-humans-reached-Americas-15-000-years-EARLIER-thought.html Cave in Mexico found with evidence of humans living there 27,000 years ago Modelling reveals humans arrived on the continent around 33,000 years ago Researchers do not know exactly how people first reached Americas at this time Believe they e…

"By tuning into a subset of brain waves, University of Michigan researchers have dramatically reduced the power requirements of neural interfaces while improving their accuracy—a discovery that could lead to long-lasting brain implants that can both treat neurological diseases and enable mind-controlled prosthetics and machines. The team, led by Cynthia Chestek, associate professor of biomedical engineering and core faculty at the Robotics Institute, estimated a 90% drop in power consumption of neural interfaces by utilizing their approach." https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-ultra-low-power-brain-implants-meaningful.html?fbclid=IwAR38LWu3r2MrpJOgIRa2…

Interesting article about the development of drug delivery particles that can pass the blood brain barrier. I wonder how much of an impact this could have https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-drug-delivery-particles-neurotransmitters-passport.html#:~:text=The%20study%20authors%20made%20use,gain%20access%20throughout%20the%20brain.&text=The%20LNPs%20can%20be%20injected,the%20drugs%20across%20the%20barrier.

The star TYC 8998-760-1 (top center) was photographed with two giant exoplanets (arrows), the first time astronomers have directly imaged more than one planet orbiting a sunlike star. The bright spots above star TYC 8998-760-1 are other stars in the background. BOHN ET AL/ESO https://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-picture-sun-like-star-multiple-exoplanets-astronomy-planets

A 35-mile-long rift opened up in the Ethiopian desert in 2005, the result of tectonic plates slowly spreading the continent apart. https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/african-continent-very-slowly-peeling-apart-scientists-say-new-ocean-n1234128

We report the discovery of a new exoplanet candidate orbiting the star GJ 3470. A total of three transits were detected by OKSky Observatory: the first one on December 23, 2019, the second one on February 27, 2020, and the third one on May 3, 2020. We estimate an average transit depth of 0.84 percent and duration of 1 hour and 2 minutes. Based on this parameter, we calculate a radius of 9.2 Earth radii, which would correspond to the size of a Saturn-like exoplanet. We also estimate an orbital period of 66 days that places the exoplanet inside the habitable zone, near the orbital distance at Earths equivalent radiation. Another twelve potential transits that do not belong …

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