Mar 13, 2023
Scientists Just Found a Way to Make Living on Mars Easier
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: futurism, space
Communicating with far-off Mars is hard, but new satellite arrangements could make things easier for future missions.
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Mar 13, 2023
Dinosaurs killing impact triggered a “mega-earthquake” that lasted weeks to months
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
Mar 13, 2023
Ancient platypus-like fossil could rewrite the history of egg-laying mammals
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
Fossils of a 70 million-year-old platypus relative called Patagorhynchus pascuali found in South America show that egg-laying mammals evolved on more than one continent.
Mar 13, 2023
M.C. Escher on Loneliness, Creativity, and How Rachel Carson Inspired His Art, with a Side of Bach
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
A person who is lucidly aware of the miracles that surround him, who has learned to bear up under the loneliness, has made quite a bit of progress on the road to wisdom.
Mar 13, 2023
A common and treatable cause of heart attacks is being overlooked
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
Research suggests inflammation may be just as important as cholesterol as a cause of heart attacks, suggesting different treatments should be considered for prevention.
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Mar 13, 2023
The Electron Is Having a (Magnetic) Moment. It’s a Big Deal
Posted by Paul Battista in category: futurism
A new experiment pulled off the most precise measurement of an electron’s self-generated magnetic field—and the universe’s subatomic model is at stake.
Experience tells us that it is much easier to extend median lifespan than maximum lifespan. Katcher’s trial of E5 in 8 rats breaks this expectation. The last of Harold Katcher’s rats has died, and she outlived her sisters by 7 months.
Mar 12, 2023
A 3 Million-Year-Old Discovery May Rewrite the History of Intelligent Life on Earth
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
A set of ancient stone tools may have been made by a species unrelated to modern humans, a new finding suggests.
Mar 12, 2023
Fossil Fuel Industry Leadership Intends To Stay As “Oily” As Possible Until Forced To Change
Posted by 21st Century Tech Blog in categories: energy, futurism
Oil company CEOs greenwash at Houston conference while UN calls for action to halve emissions from the industry this decade.
The fossil fuel industry sees a ‘chaotic’ and ‘painful’ future in curbing their production before proven energy alternatives are in place.
Mar 12, 2023
A framework to self-test all entangled states using quantum networks
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: futurism, quantum physics
Self-testing is a promising method to infer the physics underlying specific quantum experiments using only collected measurements. While this method can be used to examine bipartite pure entangled states, so far it could only be applied to limited kinds of quantum states involving an arbitrary number of systems.
Researchers at Sorbonne University, ICFO-Institute of Photonic Sciences and Quantinuum recently introduced a framework for the quantum network-assisted self-testing of all pure entangled states of an arbitrary number of systems. Their paper, published in Nature Physics, could inform future research efforts aimed at certifying quantum phenomena.
“I was a postdoctoral researcher in Barcelona in 2014 in the group of Antonio Acín when the first author, Ivan Šupić and I began working on self-testing quantum states together,” Matty Hoban, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told Phys.org. “That is, certifying that you have systems in particular quantum states without trusting the devices and treating them as black boxes (called the device-independent setting). Part of this work involved exploring different kinds of scenarios of trust.”
