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Super interesting article on the history of alternative nuclear reactors including molten salt reactors: https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/nuclear-technology-abandoned-decades-ago-might-give-us-safer-smaller-reactors

On Science

If you’ve been following news on CRISPR, you will be interested in this very cool video that catches the magic on video...

 https://apple.news/AfsX9NF0xP6S7Iciilkqtfw

Yeah, we know CRISPR works. But now we can actually watch it work.

Watch CRISPR Do Its Thing - D-brief — Discover

Space X about the make history with its first launch of humans into space: https://apple.news/A2oCgDQ-VOhaDIJb6rI4ATQ

If next week’s launch goes well, it will be the first crewed space mission from American soil in years—and will open up a new era for the industry.

This is SpaceX’s big chance to really make history — MIT Technology Review

This Cancer 'Vaccine' Cured Tumours in Mice, And Human Trials Have Now Started.
https://apple.news/A9Knxh15gOFKqhyyY5vgFRg

An injectable "vaccine" delivered directly to tumours in mice has been found to eliminate all traces of those tumours, cancer researchers have found - and it works on many different kinds of cancers, including untreated metastases in the same animal.

This Cancer 'Vaccine' Cured Tumours in Mice, And Human Trials Have Now Started — ScienceAlert

Two fertilized eggs can merge into one human being - a condition known as tetragametic chimerism. Read on to learn about this fascinating phenomenon. 
https://apple.news/AmjyyW-rRMMWLQrXeYWCgFA

Take any two cells from your body and there's a good chance their genetic sequences will be a match. That is, unless you happen to have what's referred to in the medical literature as a 'tetragametic chimerism' – a condition that causes separate f

Some People Are Their Own Identical Twins, And The Science Behind That Is Fascinating — ScienceAlert

Ever wonder what a qbit is? This cartoon explains it perfectly! 

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - The Talk

 @Ly-KuPXu00lyU57kdi2KWw  would love your comments on this.

Quantum entanglement is being used to essentially teleport information through electron pairs across space and time. Star Trek is happening today:

http://time.com/4854718/quantum-entanglement-teleport-space/

Scientists have successfully teleported an object from Earth to space for the first time using quantum entanglement.

Scientists Just Teleported an Object From Earth Into Space

A lot of cases aren’t being documented...due to milder symptoms 

fascinating article on how gene mapping is being used to track coronavirus in real time: https://apple.news/ANR9wVo_GPQ29e0aIPvT_dw

Genetic data shows that countries are getting hit with multiple introductions of the virus.

Gene sleuths are tracking the coronavirus outbreak as it happens — MIT Technology Review

an optimistic view on climate change

https://apple.news/AP6CdGMU0Ro2TRF1Fr8Hr3g

Life will be different—and warmer—in 2070. But we will find ways to limit carbon emissions, embrace nature, and thrive.

Why we’ll succeed in saving the planet from climate change — National Geographic

Interesting article on the travels of the two Voyagers (I and II) as they reaches the transition zone where the suns’s effects end and the galaxy takes over:

https://apple.news/A8a45WSB-Trevu09AYKiNXw

Five papers detail what the edge of interstellar space looks like.

A bonanza of data from the second Voyager to reach the Solar System’s edge — Ars Technica

Could molten salt reactors might just turn nuclear power into the greenest energy source on the planet?

Nuclear Technology Abandoned Decades Ago Might Give Us Safer, Smaller Reactors

Sounds fascinating ! Could we have more info please?

Did you know your body “washes” your brain? This newly discovered system is called the Glymphatic System. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25947369/

Neurochem Res. 2015 Dec;40(12):2583-99. doi: 10.1007/s11064-015-1581-6. Epub  2015 May 7. Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Review

The Glymphatic System: A Beginner's Guide. - PubMed - NCBI

We’re three million miles closer to the sun in January than we are in July. So why isn't it hot? 

Read on the find out :) 

https://apple.news/AE2APljJcRVGA1Lg294UCww

There’s something about the geometry of space that’s never quite made sense to me. This year, I finally figured it out.

We’re three million miles closer to the sun in January than we are in July. So why isn't it hot? — Popular Science

Will we finally end the disease of the century?

Cancer "Vaccine" That Wipes out Tumors Ready for Human https://apple.news/AueLLag91Qw6eT6vhg_PEbg

After showing remarkable results in animal models, a new localized immunotherapy that targets the tumor with a simple injection is ready to enter clinical trials.

Cancer "Vaccine" That Wipes out Tumors Ready for Human Trial — Futurism

Teleportation is probably doable... just maybe not plausible anytime soon:

https://apple.news/A6DaC5CddQaaRAwzF6G1dTA

For now, all we can teleport are photons. Will it ever be our turn?

Will We Have Personal Teleportation in the Future? — Interesting Engineering

If you are like me and your last academic exposure to physics was long enough ago to be a distant memory, consider the following free online courses:

https://apple.news/AnMC3vp_bT9OIiLy22fiktA

Here are 10 physics courses you can take now with some of the best experts in the world.

10 great physics courses you can take online right now, for free — Big Think

This is pretty amazing!, source: https://apple.news/Avb7Zix_FTA6b4NldAkgrqw

By culturing cells, food scientists have learned to grow meat in a lab without killing any animals or relying on deforestation

In a Global First, Lab-Grown Chicken Nuggets Will Soon Be on the Menu in Singapore — Smithsonian Magazine

solar power takes a big leap:

https://apple.news/Axgtc5YTMOz-H9LuL2_-zvA

Today, the world is grappling with more than just the climate crisis, and yet even now, in the face of a global pandemic, scientists are marching on with renewable solutions.

While We've Been in Lockdown, Solar Cell Technology Has Smashed Three Big Records — ScienceAlert

This so bad ass: https://apple.news/ANEUfCjYISD61s9JABWsb4w

Researchers think that lopping off its own noggin could help the critter rid itself of parasites

Sea Slug’s Decapitated Head Crawls Around Before Regrowing a Body — Smithsonian Magazine

https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-could-be-crushed-to-the-size-of-a-soccer-field-by-particle-accelerator-experiments-says-astronomer

Neils Bohr’s work, though often maligned by Einstein and Schrodinger, set the stage for modern day quantum computing:

https://apple.news/AuUsBXV60TUO18rlu8NwBFw

A look back at the pioneering work of Niels Bohr and its impact on our modern world

Niels Bohr's Quantum Mechanics and Philosophy of Physics — Interesting Engineering

The Riemann hypothesis allows us to reverse engineer whether a number is prime or not. One mathematician thinks he’s proven it:

https://apple.news/ARuxsyu3cTZWv9UZh467RxQ

Many mathematicians are wary of Atiyah’s proof for the infamous Riemann hypothesis—for multiple reasons.

A British mathematician thinks he’s cracked a secret worth a million bucks — Popular Science

China Just Powered Up Its “Artificial Sun” Fusion Reactor, source: https://apple.news/AyL_xpZYSRX-fuc2mhUx83Q

Artificial Sun China has successfully powered up its “artificial sun” nuclear fusion reactor for the first time according to Agence France Presse. The reactor, the country’s largest, could one day generate power without running the risk of a nuclear meltdown — or emitting greenhouse gases — by fusing atoms together rather than breaking them apart. […]

China Just Powered Up Its “Artificial Sun” Fusion Reactor — Futurism

In case you were ever wondering...

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/how-do-wombats-poop-cubes-scientists-get-bottom-mystery

Distinctive intestines mold feces into sharp-cornered poop

How do wombats poop cubes? Scientists get to the bottom of the mystery

My next read: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-God-Equation-Audiobook/0525491864

Discover The God Equation as it's meant to be heard, narrated by Feodor Chin. Free trial available!

The God Equation

Heat is a by product of production in factories. This invention allows heat to be converted back into electricity. https://apple.news/ATICcVgRFOaW85hlILKd_Uw

A prototype waste-heat engine runs by cycling hot and cold water through its pistons​

Shape-Shifting Metals Could Generate Electricity from Wasted Heat — Scientific American

Researchers uncover secret of nanomaterial that makes harvesting sunlight easier. This more smaller surfaces will be needed to harvest light energy, ultimately opening the door for more applications for solar energy.

 https://apple.news/ARw3RgBVuTBeuZbu1BveykQ

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How Alice, Bob, and two friends challenged the universality of quantum physics..., source: https://apple.news/Av-wIuUlhTtav1Jc-XgupZg

A weird thought experiment has shaken up the world of quantum physics by calling into question our assumptions about how the world works.

A New Quantum Paradox Flags Errors in Our View of Reality — WIRED

What has always fascinated me about quantum physics is that the outcome is dependent on an observer. Yes particles can remain entangled over great distances, but what we see and what we are able to measure is the observable Universe. It’s mind-blowing to imagine, what goes on in the unobservable Universe? Some theorists have actually called this “the blinking Universe.” So what happens when the Universe does blink? When we’re not all collectively watching quantum particles and literally holding up the foundations of our physical reality? That question feels so immense to even think about! 

This is very cool. A quantum link remained intact over a separation of 1,200 kilometers between the two cities! That means particles remained entangled even over large distances.  Hello quantum internet!

https://apple.news/AN2ajxp6lMjONJ1UIcS3Z3A

Quantum communication through space is now possible, putting the quantum internet within closer reach.

A quantum communications satellite proved its potential in 2017 — Science News Magazine

What do you get when you combine an elevator, a rocket, and gravity: the equivalence principle.
http://www.einstein-online.info/spotlights/equivalence_principle.html

Information about the principle that Einstein took as a starting point for developing his general theory of relativity

The elevator, the rocket, and gravity: the equivalence principle — Einstein Online

In the queue. Unfortunately Behind two Chernow biographies and Pinkner books. 

Another must read

Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486234002?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf

Amazon.com: Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension (Dover Books on Mathematics) (9780486234007): Rudolf v.B. Rucker: Books

Just ordered my copy 😁
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0399184414/ref=cm_sw_r_oth_api_vNJ0AbJY01AD2

Buy Seven Brief Lessons on Physics on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics: Carlo Rovelli: 9780399184413: Amazon.com: Books

Could drones be powered by land based lasers? If a company in Switzerland has its way, the answer is yes!

https://apple.news/ASAeA1-1bRR-Jt43kkwADrA

Rather than have drones waste energy carrying their own power, LakeDiamond wants to charge them by firing lasers through diamonds at their solar cells.

Drop the Batteries—Diamonds and Lasers Could Power Your Drone — WIRED

Can CRISPR And 3 Small Biotech Companies Cure 10,000 Diseases? https://apple.news/AWvLmqPtISIyL1mCQZxiiHg

Intellia Therapeutics, Crispr Therapeutics and Editas Medicine are at the forefront of the new CRISPR gene editing technology, which could cure thousands of diseases.

Can CRISPR And These 3 Small Biotechs Cure 10,000 Diseases? — Investor's Business Daily

Fascinating obituary about Hawking in the Economist, March 17th. “The cosmos from a wheelchair”. How much more poignant could it be said. Made me question life, death and so much I fail to understand.

Hawking’s final paper which posited a theory for how to measure the existence of a parallel multiverse...

Https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.07702v2.pdf

This polymer based AI Skin can feel like our own skin does. Super cool!!

https://apple.news/A2EuMxv7SQ7i4JDV7oVtPog

Because robots that act eerily human aren’t creepy enough, artificial skin that can (sort of) feel now exists. AISkin (Artificial Ionic Skin) is a hydrogel sensor that looks like the Blob’s sleeker cousin. Recently developed by a team of researchers from the University of Toronto’s engineering department, the adhesive skin is autonomous and records sensations that are literally skin-deep. The freakiest thing about it is that it can “think” without being plugged into anything. “[AISkin has] high

Creepy-cool new artificial skin that can "feel" is the epidermis of the future — SYFY WIRE

The world's first nuclear fusion plant is now halfway to ‘First Plasma’ - Digital Trends https://apple.news/AJUvurk7tTHW_v2kYcet2Ug

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) program reached an important milestone this month, as the 35-nation nuclear fusion project hopes to create a viable source of clean energy in the near future.

The world's first nuclear fusion plant is now halfway to ‘First Plasma’ — Digital Trends

Our brains sometimes deny, but the body already knows!

This paper debunks the idea that drinking moderately is good for you. It’s also evidences serious issues with studies funded by industry proponents (aka alcohol companies). The bottom line from the paper: alcohol kills and the more your drink the more likely you are to die sooner - even at the amounts suggested by the US government. 
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/04/21/129270

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

Components of alcohol use and all-cause mortality

Look Ma! No more needles... vaccines might be orally administered before too long: https://apple.news/ACnkO9Bp2Q1K7Qj1GpDW7zg

The race is on to identify an effective vaccine for the COVID-19 virus. Once it’s discovered, the next challenge will be manufacturing and distributing it around the world. My research group has developed a novel method to stabilize live viruses and other biological medicines in a rapidly dissolving film that does not require refrigeration and can be given by mouth. Since the ingredients to make the film are inexpensive and the process is relatively simple, it could make vaccine campaigns much

The next frontier of vaccines: no needles — Fast Company

If You Thought Quantum Mechanics Was Weird, Check Out Entangled Time 
https://apple.news/A3B4engF7OQi7uRh7ggxlMQ

In the summer of 1935, the physicists Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger engaged in a rich, multifaceted and sometimes fretful correspondence about the implications of the new theory of quantum mechanics.

If You Thought Quantum Mechanics Was Weird, Check Out Entangled Time — ScienceAlert

https://www.quantamagazine.org/landmark-math-proof-clears-hurdle-in-top-erdos-conjecture-20200803/

Two mathematicians have proved the first leg of Paul Erdős’ all-time favorite problem about number patterns.

Landmark Math Proof Clears Hurdle in Top Erdős Conjecture

Physicists Just Found a New Way to Bend a Fundamental Rule of Light Waves https://apple.news/AyuOWAelhP0GoDzrDvD77eg

One of the more well-known rules in physics is that light can only ever go one speed, so long as nothing stands in its way.

Physicists Just Found a New Way to Bend a Fundamental Rule of Light Waves — ScienceAlert

Can you see all 12 dots?

https://apple.news/AKJaKDt0CSCayfqoelXWB-w

When our eyes dart around the entire scene, the black dots move into and out of our visual field, making them seem as if they are flickering on and off.

This image has exactly 12 dots, but it’s impossible to see them all at once — Popular Science

A challenge to Schrödinger’s cat... physicists playing a coin tossing game??

https://apple.news/AQEYIvqLQR2qOFI7UElfa3A

A multi-cat experiment has left physicists frustrated as it has produced a new and contradictory theory of reality.

New Interpretation of Schrodinger's Cat Disrupts Quantum Mechanics — Interesting Engineering

The theory for the other 95% percent of the universe, dark matter, might be as simple as a switched sign in math that describes the universe:

https://apple.news/A6W3OAG6TQoq97FVoL26aMA

They’re known as the Jills. They’re two of America’s top realtors, selling the glitziest mansions in Miami. Then a place went missing—and everyday greed blossomed into full-blown extortion.

How a real-estate scuffle turned into a true tale of Miami Vice — Vanity Fair

The particle zoo you say? There’s an app for that! Written by Strings’ own Rick Burgess....

Particle Zoo by rickbdotcom LLC

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/particle-zoo/id325403123?mt=8

‎Read reviews, compare customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Particle Zoo. Download Particle Zoo and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

‎Particle Zoo

I did find a clip of Oliver’s response: https://youtu.be/hdV57tGOdnk

Keeping it light today :)
https://www.sciencealert.com/john-oliver-reaction-neil-degrasse-tyson-pedantic-science-correction?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=native


This week, John Oliver's show was all about how some corrupt guardians are making money from America's ageing population.

John Oliver's Reaction to Neil DeGrasse Tyson Ruining His Joke Is Just Perfect

Not quite teleporting the vibrations... more making two drumheads vibrate together :)

Entanglement at macroscopic distances is now a reality using entangled drumheads!
https://apple.news/AZzkjMOZ2NumzZYiwwXNe1w

For the first time, scientists have managed to show quantum entanglement – which Einstein famously described as "spooky action at a distance" – happening between macroscopic objects, a major step forward in our understanding of quantum physics.

Einstein's 'Spooky Action' Has Just Been Demonstrated on a Massive Scale For The First Time — ScienceAlert

More progress of fusion. Especially interesting is the Lockheed Martin skunkworks effort To produce a 100-megawatt fusion reactor that fits on the back of a truck. This generator can generate enough power for 100,000 people, according to the company. This would be ideal for ships at sea as well. https://apple.news/ArKRff8rBTNC8_W0VeNfBQw

This is crazy!

https://apple.news/AzSiuJUgMTF2WDSv7Bouj7g, source: https://apple.news/AzSiuJUgMTF2WDSv7Bouj7g

This week, the Chinese government announced that it plans to drastically increase its use of technology that artificially changes the weather. Cloud seeding technology, or systems that can “seed” clouds by blasting silver molecules into the sky and prompt condensation, has been around for decades, and China makes frequent use of it. But […]

China Is Rolling Out an Enormous "Weather Modification" System — Futurism

CRISPR had a good run in 2017... 

https://apple.news/APjHzZx9xM8yCZhp66RCNYA

Researchers are getting closer to using gene editing for disease treatments and organ transplants.

Four amazing things gene editing did in 2017 — MIT Technology Review

The Sci-fi idea of faster-than-light speed travel might not be that far fetched: https://www.universetoday.com/147549/one-theory-beyond-the-standard-model-could-allow-wormholes-that-you-could-actually-fly-through/

A new study by a team of theoretical astrophysicists shows that stable wormholes could exist, but don't expect them to be a practical means of space travel.

One Theory Beyond the Standard Model Could Allow Wormholes that You Could Actually Fly Through - Universe Today

Can someone please explain this to me? I have no idea what they are talking about 😉

https://apple.news/Anuc5gHIbTAe9jeQ5ffm5zA

It’s time for the Quantum Bullshit Detector:

https://apple.news/AoBzwEY10SqiJk2O0r0dD9Q

A Twitter account called Quantum Bullshit Detector reflects some researchers' angst about overhyped claims and other troubling trends.

Revolt! Scientists Say They're Sick of Quantum Computing's Hype — WIRED

In times of mutual struggle it’s acts of kindness like these that remind me why i’m always optimist about the human condition: https://twitter.com/dalev73/status/1245023851404279815?s=21

“My sister, who lives in downtown Toronto, received this message last night from her landlord.

She sent me this. I don't know Chris personally, but you are a loving, caring person and you should be recognized for this. ♥️”

Dale on Twitter

At 99.995 absorption it’s even darker than vantablack which was the reigning black at 99.965 absorption. 

This stuff is so black it captures almost 100% of light making any 3d surface seem essentially 2d to the naked eye.

https://futurism.com/mit-accidentally-invents-blackest-material

MIT researchers accidentally invented the blackest material ever reported, and then used it to make a $2 million diamond "disappear."

MIT team "accidentally" invents blackest material in existence

I have to try this: https://apple.news/AzWgmBs_aSHKN6T-5clo5UA

by Nicole Wetsman illustration by Brown Bird Design BACK IN THE ’90S, ADAR PELAH WAS studying vision at the University...

A head-scratching treadmill trick — Popular Science

Try this Binaural Shepard Tone generator. This is how the feeling of constant intensity was created in Dunkirk. Keep in mind, it can cause nausea! 

 @Ly-KuPXu00lyU57kdi2KWw  would you mind giving us the layman’s version? ;)

https://apple.news/ACpsN-huBMKirgfRcvZVXWA

By making a strange kind of particle that is its own antiparticle out of a time crystal, physicists aim to develop a quantum computer that's not only more reliable, but far more lightweight than anything currently in the pipeline.

Physicists Want to Mix Time Crystals And Majorana Fermions to Make a Quantum Computer — ScienceAlert

Very cool!!! I’ll post that back to the main string :)

The Standard Model of particle physics: The absolutely amazing theory of almost everything!
https://apple.news/Ae8KG-qMYRzuO6GGGLK_mQg

A particle physicist explains just what this keystone theory includes. After 50 years, it's the best we've got to answer what everything in the universe is made of and how it all holds together.

The Standard Model of particle physics: The absolutely amazing theory of almost everything — The Conversation US

I learned frôm the master @CB3YbWkEjNluongXLqky8A  

Could bouncing a mass in a frictionless chamber while exploiting the laws of near-light-speed physics allow the mass to transfer more energy to one side more than the other? This physicist thinks so:


https://apple.news/AwDuF-WEpNliLrtk9s5q2dA

A NASA engineer has published plans for an engine that could accelerate a rocket without using propellant. But there are questions over whether it could work

NASA engineer's 'helical engine' may violate the laws of physics — New Scientist

This is a bit dense to read, but the net of it is that quantum uncertainty teaches us that the energy uncertainty of an clock increases with it’s preciseness. This means that two precise clocks will essentially entangle with each other, affecting their ability to measure time. Said more simply, two precise clocks placed next to each other will lose their precision!

 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.01955.pdf

One trillion entangled atoms... new record: https://apple.news/Ar__ZErOGOSeg5hORIvypgQ

Quantum physicists have set a new record for collecting a persistent group of entangled atoms together, getting 15 trillion atoms to co-exist in a "hot and messy" cloud of gas.

Physicists Create a Group of 15 Trillion Entangled Atoms, Setting a Major New Record — ScienceAlert

Australian experiment wipes out over 80% of disease-carrying mosquitoes. @Kristian your idea came to being!

https://apple.news/ASSEhAnPhQamFsn9ZySNl-Q

In an experiment with global implications, Australian scientists have successfully wiped out more than 80% of disease-carrying mosquitoes in trial locations across north Queensland.

Australian experiment wipes out over 80% of disease-carrying mosquitoes — CNN

https://apple.news/ASdiJB0G4QQeRAlh4PGkEUw

The bionic retina is coming soon. https://apple.news/A5mz_z9guSbaMrpaWCvYT4w

If we follow Moore’s law for quantum computing, we can expect computers (even if just simulators) to rapidly follow... https://apple.news/AhHCXAZrpR2qEgcwUy3uYKg

Physicists at MIT and Harvard University have demonstrated a new way to manipulate quantum bits of matter. In a paper published in the journal Nature, they report using a system of finely tuned lasers to first trap and then tweak the interactions of 51 individual atoms, or quantum bits. The team’s results represent one of the...

Scientists Demonstrate One of the Largest Quantum Simulators yet, With 51 Atoms — Futurism

This is sooooooo cool!!!!!


https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/15/researchers-ready-world-first-vision-restoration-device-for-human-clinical-trials/

Over a decade’s worth of work by scientists working at Melbourne, Australia’s Monash University has produced a first-of-its-kind device that can restore vision to the blind, using a combination of smartphone-style electronics and brain-implanted micro electrodes. The system has already been shown to work in preclinical studies and non-human trials on sheep, and researchers are […]