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Aug- 2021 -26 AugustSpace
A Big Step Forward in the Search for Alien Life: New Class of Exoplanet Very Different to Our Own
Lead image: Astronomers have identified a new class of habitable planets, dubbed ‘Hycean’ planets – hot, ocean-covered planets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres – which could represent a big step forward in the search for life elsewhere. Credit: Amanda Smith, University of Cambridge A new class of exoplanet very different to our own, but which could support life, has been identified by astronomers, which could greatly accelerate the search for life outside our Solar System. In the search for life elsewhere, astronomers have mostly looked for planets of a similar size, mass, temperature, and atmospheric composition to Earth. However, astronomers from the…
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26 AugustTesla
Elon Musk is creating a human friendly humanoid bot called Tesla Bot that leverages vehicle AI, and is now hiring roboticists to work on the project
Elon Musk has a track record of making bold claims. He announced that he’s actually going to make a humanoid robot, called Tesla Bot, and it will be able to grab your groceries for you and perform other menial tasks, and no that’s not a joke. According to Elon Musk, the company’s newest employee is merely normal size, standing approximately 5-foot-8 and weighing 125 pounds. It’s part of the company’s wider automation aspirations, which include developing its computer processor, codenamed the D1, to power the networks for self-driving vehicles. At its “AI Day” last week on 19th August, Tesla released…
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25 AugustScience
How Brain Cells Compensate for Damage From a Stroke – New Results Challenge Current Ideas
New results challenge the current model of how the brain can reorganize in the aftermath of stroke damage A study from UCLA neurologists challenges the idea that the brain recruits existing neurons to take over for those that are lost from stroke. It shows that in mice, undamaged neurons do not change their function after a stroke to compensate for damaged ones. A stroke occurs when the blood supply to a certain part of the brain is interrupted, such as by a blood clot. Brain cells in that area become damaged and can no longer function. A person who is…
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20 AugustScience-Tech
Researchers Around the World Are Buzzing About a Candidate Superconductor Created at Quantum Foundry
An Exciting New Material Since receiving a $25 million grant in 2019 to become the first National Science Foundation (NSF) Quantum Foundry, UC Santa Barbara researchers affiliated with the foundry have been working to develop materials that can enable quantum information–based technologies for such applications as quantum computing, communications, sensing, and simulation. They may have done it. In a new paper, published in the journal Nature Materials, foundry co-director and UCSB materials professor Stephen Wilson, and multiple co-authors, including key collaborators at Princeton University, study a new material developed in the Quantum Foundry as a candidate superconductor — a material…
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20 AugustScience
Protein Pathways: Mentally Stimulating Jobs Linked to Lower Risk of Dementia in Old Age
Certain proteins might provide clues to underlying biological mechanisms, say researchers. People with mentally stimulating jobs have a lower risk of dementia in old age than those with non-stimulating jobs, finds a study published by The BMJ today (August 18, 2021). One possible explanation is that mental stimulation is linked to lower levels of certain proteins that may prevent brain cells forming new connections (processes called axonogenesis and synaptogenesis). Cognitive stimulation is assumed to prevent or postpone the onset of dementia. But trial results have varied and most recent long-term studies have suggested that leisure time cognitive activity does not reduce…
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