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Moore’s Law, the guiding concept in computing, is an observation made by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore. According to this law, the number of transistors on a device doubles roughly every two years, hence increasing performance. For years, this idea has driven the semiconductor sector.

In the fast-paced world of technology, not many ideas have been as impactful as Moore’s Law. The principle, first highlighted in 1965, predicted that the number of transistors on a microchip would double about every two years, resulting in rapid advancements in computing power. Yet, it has been observed that the transistor count does not merely follow Moore’s Law but surpasses it in significant ways.

With that thought, AIM has put together this article highlighting the number of times Moore’s Law was challenged.

Scientists have now performed one such large-scale test by using DESI. They observed almost 6 million galaxies and quasars, which are bright hearts of galaxies powered by feeding supermassive black holes. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this test, which has traced the evolution of the universe since it was around 3 billion years old, has once again shown general relativity to be the right “recipe” for gravity.

“General relativity has been very well tested at the scale of solar systems, but we also needed to test that our assumption works at much larger scales,” study co-leader and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) cosmologist Pauline Zarrouk said in a statement. “Studying the rate at which galaxies formed lets us directly test our theories and, so far, we’re lining up with what general relativity predicts at cosmological scales.”

Located a staggering 160,000 light-years from us, the star WOH G64 was imaged thanks to the impressive sharpness offered by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI). The new observations reveal a star puffing out gas and dust in the last stages before it becomes a supernova.

“For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way,” says Keiichi Ohnaka, an astrophysicist from Universidad Andrés Bello in Chile.

“We discovered an egg-shaped cocoon closely surrounding the star,” says Ohnaka, the lead author of a study reporting the observations published today in Astronomy & Astrophysics. “We are excited because this may be related to the drastic ejection of material from the dying star before a supernova explosion.”

For a very long time, we have been under the impression that memory and learning are solely the brain’s forte. Central to this belief is the fact that our brains, particularly our brain cells, store memories.

However, an innovative team of researchers begs to differ, suggesting that cells in other parts of the body partake in this memory function too.

The ability of non-brain cells to learn and form memories is a riveting discovery.

Model mice treated with extracts and powders exhibit restored cognitive and motor functions. Efforts to develop a breakthrough dementia drug are gaining attention, yet traditional medicinal products may provide valuable insights for preventive care. A research group led by Specially Appointed Professor Takami Tomiyama of Osaka Metropolitan University’s Graduate School…

We were honored to have the brilliant Dr. David Sinclair PhD present a new perspective on his Information Theory of Aging during our longevity research hackathon at MIT Media Lab, from October 2024.

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If we can confirm its existence, that is.