Friday - October 6 2023, 22:33 UTC - 1 year ago

NGC 6951 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the Cepheus constellation 78 million light-years away. It is often classified as a Type II Seyfert galaxy, and has a supermassive black hole surrounded by a ring of stars, gas, and dust. Up to 6 supernovae have been found in this galaxy in the past 25 years.

Friday - October 6 2023, 17:54 UTC - 1 year ago

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of the lenticular galaxy NGC 612, characterized by its orange and blue hues. This galaxy is an active galaxy, a Seyfert galaxy, and a rare example of a non-elliptical radio galaxy. It was discovered in 1837 by British astronomer John Herschel and is located about 400 million light-years away from Earth.

Friday - October 6 2023, 13:44 UTC - 1 year ago

The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their research into mRNA technology, which was key to developing the mRNA vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech that have saved millions of lives. mRNA vaccines are easy to produce and can be used to target multiple diseases, including the flu. The National Institutes of Health has already conducted trials on an mRNA flu vaccine and found promising results.

Friday - October 6 2023, 09:27 UTC - 1 year ago

Electric vehicles and efficient energy policies are decreasing global demand for oil, but the US Department of Energy is projecting a different story. Why, and what will happen if the US projections are wrong?.

Friday - October 6 2023, 04:58 UTC - 1 year ago

This study was conducted to explore the effects of early-life adversities (ELAs) on neurological functioning and anxiety responses in later generations. The study found that these effects could be passed down to the next generations and that a drug called amiloride had the potential to reverse these negative effects. The study also found that the early-life adversities lineage were more sensitive to pain than mouse lineages with normal rearing, and that inhalation of amiloride reversed the responses. The study was published in the journal Science Advances on October 4th, 2023.

Friday - October 6 2023, 00:03 UTC - 1 year ago

Serverless Computing is a new generation of cloud services that is based on the paradigm of "serverless computing", which is an active research topic at the Institute for Computer Science in Würzburg. It is a shift towards the cloud provider taking over responsibility for server management, so users can focus 100% on programming. A recent article in Communications of the ACM deals with the history, status and potential of serverless computing.

Thursday - October 5 2023, 19:07 UTC - 1 year ago

A recent study from the University of Missouri School of Medicine indicates a potential alternative method to address cigarette cravings by using theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation (TBS). This method was found to enhance self-control and reduce cravings while improving inhibitory control among participants. Further research is needed to examine the clinical value of TBS for treating substance use disorders.

Thursday - October 5 2023, 14:16 UTC - 1 year ago

Elia, Belgium's transmission system operator, has announced the commencement of the world's first and only artificial intelligence island. The 45-kilometer-off-the-coast (28-mile) energy center consisting of wind farms and interconnectors from the UK and Denmark will link the onshore electricity system of Belgium. The project costs an estimated €575 million and the wind turbines are estimated to generate 6 terrawatt/hours of clean energy. The project is expected to be completed in August 2026.

Thursday - October 5 2023, 09:25 UTC - 1 year ago

Aubrey de Grey is leading a Rejuvenation Mouse Program to identify and study potential synergies and conflicts between existing treatments for age control. Early results show that a combination of all four treatments (rapamycin, stem cells, telomerase gene therapy and navitoclax) provide the best survival rate. However, the group is still collecting and analysing data to understand the correlation between the treatment and glucose tolerance with biological age.

Thursday - October 5 2023, 04:27 UTC - 1 year ago

ESTCube-2, a tiny satellite built by Estonian students, will be launched later this week to test the ‘plasma brake’ concept, a novel technology that could help clean up the space junk orbiting our planet. The project is both a technological and educational experiment, as it was designed and built by 600 students. The satellite will deploy a 50-meter-long wire made of four aluminum strands, each as thin as a human hair, to interact with the charged particles in space. The wire is designed to be resilient against micrometeorites and other hazards.

Wednesday - October 4 2023, 23:29 UTC - 1 year ago

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics will be awarded to a group of researchers who have used attosecond laser pulses to capture the motion of electrons. With this technique, called pump-probe spectroscopy, attosecond laser pulses are used like strobes to light up electrons and capture their positions, allowing researchers to make attosecond movies of the motion of electrons.

Wednesday - October 4 2023, 18:25 UTC - 1 year ago

A new study published by a team in Nature has revealed that antimatter behaves the same way to gravity as matter does, providing us with the first direct validation of the weak equivalence principle for antimatter particles. This experiment brings us one step closer to understanding why there is a matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe.

Wednesday - October 4 2023, 13:32 UTC - 1 year ago

Indonesia has marked a historic moment in its transportation history with the inauguration of Southeast Asia's first-ever bullet train, connecting Jakarta to Bandung in a remarkable 40-minute journey. The project boasts remarkable technical specifications, operating on electricity with zero direct carbon emissions, designed to withstand Indonesia's tropical climate, and equipped with a safety system to handle emergencies. It also has a positive environmental impact, reducing traffic congestion and contributing to pollution reduction in both cities. The project cost 113 trillion rupiah ($7.3 billion) and received substantial funding from China. There are plans to extend the line to Surabaya in 2024.

Wednesday - October 4 2023, 08:26 UTC - 1 year ago

The International Space Station Expedition 70 crew is starting their first full week following the previous crew's departure at 371 days. The crew kicked off the week with science, physics, and space suit discussion. NASA Flight Engineers Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara worked with JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa on health and safety matters in space. Experienced cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko set up a video camera for plasma physics experiment. Cosmonauts Konstantin Borisov and Nikolai Chub studied medical and engineering operations.

Wednesday - October 4 2023, 04:18 UTC - 1 year ago

Tech companies should be aware of the security risks of AI language models and indirect prompt injection attacks. Google is using special models, spam filters, and adversarial testing to try and identify these threats.

Tuesday - October 3 2023, 23:18 UTC - 1 year ago

Oisin Biotechnologies has revolutionized the health care industry with their gene therapies that can remove senescence, visceral fat, and stimulate follistatin production. This has made them the leading regenerative medicine company in the world and their therapies are available to people of all ages, races, and genders.

Tuesday - October 3 2023, 18:26 UTC - 1 year ago

Huazhong University of Science and Technology's team has developed a Mach-Zehnder interferometer mesh that is more efficient at performing real-valued matrix-vector multiplication than the conventional meshes. This mesh is more efficient because of the fewer phase shifters it requires and finds application in large-scale optical neural networks also.

Tuesday - October 3 2023, 13:59 UTC - 1 year ago

This article is about a research team from Osaka Metropolitan University who have succeeded in printing micro sized droplets, with a diameter of approximately 100 µm, using a liquid film of fluorescent ink—which is approximately 100 times more viscous than water, by using an innovative optical vortex laser-based technique. This enables cost- and time-saving microprinting technologies with micrometer scale accuracy.

Tuesday - October 3 2023, 08:55 UTC - 1 year ago

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered free-floating objects roughly the size of Jupiter that are surprisingly not bound to any host star. The mystery objects have been named Jupiter Mass Binary Objects (JuMBOs). Scientists postulate that these objects may have formed in areas of the nebula where there wasn't enough material to create complete stars or could have been kicked off into interstellar space as a result of gravitational interactions. The JuMBOs are about 1 million years old and have surface temperatures of approximately 1,832 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000 degrees Celsius). The Orion Nebula was recently photographed by the Webb telescope offering the most remarkable and detailed views to date. At the center of the nebula lies the young Trapezium Cluster of stars, and around the stars are proto-planetary disks formed by gas and dust, possibly leading to the formation of planets.