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https://phys.org/news/2020-01-particle-chip.html This image, magnified 25,000 times, shows a section of a prototype accelerator-on-a-chip. The segment shown here are one-tenth the width of a human hair. The oddly shaped gray structures are nanometer-sized features carved in to silicon that focus bursts of infrared laser light, shown in yellow and purple, on a flow of electrons through the center channel. As the electrons travel from left to right, the light focused in the channel is carefully synchronized with passing particles to move them forward at greater and greater velocities. By packing 1,000 of these acceleration channels onto an inch-sized chip, Stanfo…

... Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/03/15/the-first-climate-model-turns-50-and-predicted-global-warming-almost-perfectly/

https://amp.businessinsider.com/gravitational-waves-new-class-of-collision-neutron-stars-2020-1?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=referral This article has some really amazing pictures/photos too. This supercomputer simulation shows one of the most violent events in the universe: a pair of neutron stars colliding, merging and forming a black hole. A neutron star is the compressed core left behind when a star born with between eight and 30 times the sun's mass explodes as a supernova. Neutron stars pack about 1.5 times the mass of the sun — equivalent to about half a million Earths — into a ball just 12 miles across. NASA Goddard

https://www.ibtimes.sg/charles-darwin-wrong-research-suggests-life-might-have-formed-hydrothermal-vents-deep-sea-33979

https://allthatsinteresting.com/chinese-paddlefish-extinct?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=referral

In this geological map of the volcanic field's summit region, the dashed, yellow ellipse marks the buried crater perimeter for the best-fitting gravity model. The dashed, white circle marks the buried perimeter that best fits geological observations. (Image credit: Sieh et al./PNAS 2019) https://www.space.com/amp/hidden-impact-crater-laos.html?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=referral

The XENON1T detector has allowed scientists to observe an ultra-rare event: the radioactive decay of xenon-124. https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/dark-matter-scientists-observe-the-rarest-event-ever-recorded/?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=referral

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That was paraphrasing the claim in a lay publication that caught my eye. Fortunately, it included a link to the actual article and it is very impressive what they claim. The actual title of the research paper is “Non-contact acquisition of brain function using a time-extracted compact camera” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-54458-7

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This article seemed in line with a couple of interesting threads here https://theconversation.com/shape-of-the-universe-could-it-be-curved-not-flat-126721

This is the first time I have come across this explanation set out in this way. https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/12/04/this-is-why-scientists-will-never-exactly-solve-general-relativity/#7b33b37734a8 It was not a surprise to me as the intimations have been there in the background up to now... The gist seems to be that, (so far) one can learn all there is to know about the mathematics of GR but its precise application (even a two body problem) is ,not even tantalizingly completely out of bounds. Does it seem a good article to any one else?

Slightly bizarre story of a puppy of an unknown canine species found frozen in Siberia. Dog? Wolf? Common ancestor? More DNA testing required. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50586508

https://www.sciencealert.com/an-impossible-black-hole-has-been-found-in-the-milky-way-galaxy

Top dark matter candidate loses ground to tiniest competitor. The ADMX experiment at the University of Washington uses a strong magnetic field to search for hypothetical dark matter particles called axions. https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-dark-matter-might-be-axions-20191127/?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=referral ADMX’s main magnet produces a field that’s about 150,000 times stronger than Earth’s.

https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-claim-a-they-ve-found-even-more-evidence-of-a-new-force-of-nature “the researchers found pairs of electrons and positrons separating at an angle that didn't match currently accepted models. This time, the number was closer to 115 degrees. Working backwards, the team calculated the helium's nucleus could also have produced a short-lived boson with a mass just under 17 megaelectronvolts.”

https://techxplore.com/news/2019-11-hybrid-device-capture-solar-energy.amp?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=referral

In various threads we have (albeit briefly) touched on the fact that resistant bacteria are starting to overwhelm our ability to treat them. Now the CDC has issued a new antibiotic resistance threat report, Basically every 4 hours a new resistant strain is detected and about 35k people die every year due to resistant strains. Countermeasures that have started since the last report came out (2013) were less effective than hoped. Among the biggest threats currently are resistant Acinetobacter, Candida auris, Clostridioides difficile (formerly Clostridium), carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae, and resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae. There are a lot of issues that have …

As you all may have heard Prime Editing is the new standard amongst the community. The discovery of the Cas protein proposed that ammunition was on the horizon to ameliorate our efforts on the war against disease. Well BREAKING NEWS Prime editing is know to show even higher efficiency and even fewer byproducts than many other editing techniques, and actually has a much lower off-target effect than the Cas 9 nuclease. Many Scientists are starting to believe that Prime editing will be able to correct up to 90% of known genetic variants that contribute to human diseases. My guess, however, is that this will not be the case. Just a short time ago Crisper was all the ra…

This is a simulation not an animation. In my opinion it is awesome. Before scientists had to chose between long, large scale simulations with little detail or short, fine detail simulations. But with the Hazel Hen supercomputer in Stuttgart, with16,000 cores running for over a year. A simulation of a cube of space measuring more than 230 million light-years in diameter and has 20 billion particles representing dark matter, stars, cosmic gas, magnetic fields, and supermassive black holes has been generated. The team was led by Dr. Annalisa Pillepich of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, and Dr. Dylan Nelson of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.…

Apparently in a decade or so, we should have telescopes good enough that they will be able to measure the expansion of the universe by watching the changing red-shift of distant galaxies. This might even happen in my lifetime! https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/11/12/this-is-how-astronomers-will-finally-measure-the-universes-expansion-directly/ (*) Extremely Large Telescope - zero points for imagination

https://www.space.com/universe-may-be-curved.html

Interesting development in the experimentation of human / primate genetic hybrids in China. The research is being conducted by Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte of the Salk Institute in California. The purported aim of the experiments is to cultivate human/monkey chimeras which can generate human organs: The idea behind the research is to fashion animals that possess organs, like a kidney or liver, made up entirely of human cells. Such animals could be used as sources of organs for transplantation. Their objective is to create “human-animal chimeras,” in this case monkey embryos to which human cells are added. Izpisúa Belmonte tried making human-animal chi…

http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/new-class-low-mass-black-holes-07759.html