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For many years, scientists believed that fundamental particles like protons and neutrons that form an atomic nucleus, can’t be divided further into smaller units. However, in the following years, physicists discovered quarks and gluons.

While quarks are particles that combine to form protons and neutrons, gluons act like glue, binding the quarks together.

So far, scientists have been studying the atomic nucleus using two models. In the first model, at low energies like in most typical nuclear experiments, they describe the atomic nucleus in terms of protons and neutrons. This is the classic way of understanding the nucleus.

The European Commission adopted on Thursday the initial implementing rules on cybersecurity of critical entities and networks under the Directive on measures for a high common level of cybersecurity across the Union. The NIS2 Directive addresses cybersecurity risk management measures and cases in which an incident should be considered significant and companies providing digital infrastructures and services should report it to national authorities. The move is seen as another major step in boosting the cyber resilience of Europe’s critical digital infrastructure.

The implementing regulation will apply to specific categories of companies providing digital services, such as cloud computing service providers, data center service providers, online marketplaces, online search engines, and social networking platforms, to name a few. For each category of service providers, the implementing act also specifies when an incident is considered significant.

Adopting the implementing regulation coincides with the deadline for Member States to transpose the NIS2 Directive into national law. As of Oct. 18, 2024, all Member States must apply the measures necessary to comply with the NIS2 cybersecurity rules, including supervisory and enforcement measures. The implementing regulation will be published in the Official Journal in due course and enter into force 20 days thereafter.

It has a bunch of solar panels on the roof and there’s also a battery-equipped model on offer.

An international team of neuroscientists, led by Duke-NUS Medical School, have uncovered a mechanism that controls the reactivation of neural stem cells, which are crucial for repairing and regenerating brain cells.

The research, published in Nature Communications, offers exciting potential for advancing our understanding and treatment of common neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

Neural stem cells are the source of the brain’s primary functional cells. After the initial development of the brain, neural stem cells typically enter a dormant state, conserving energy and resources. They re-awaken only when the brain needs them, such as after an injury or with physical exercise.

78K likes, — ianthebroker on October 12, 2024: ‘Talking to Tesla’s Optimus robot feels like the future is NOW! 🤖🚀 This ultra-realistic robot just got unveiled, and it’s already blowing minds. Elon Musk says this could be the biggest product ever created, and after seeing it in action, I believe it. Imagine robots seamlessly interacting with humans in everyday life—what a time to be alive! 🔥 #Tesla #OptimusRobot #ElonMusk #TeslaAI #FutureTech #RoboticsRevolution #TechInnovation #AI #TheFutureIsNow #AutonomousRobots #TeslaUnveiled #irobot #werobot’

Forward-looking: By combining different wireless techniques, UK researchers achieved record-breaking data transmission speeds. The technology achieved 1 Tbps in lab experiments. Now, it only needs to prove itself in commercially viable applications.

A University College London (UCL) team achieved a nearly one terabit per second data transfer speed over a wireless connection. The world record feat opens the doors to future improvements to high-speed wireless. The researchers used a wide range of frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum, achieving data rates thousands of times faster than typical UK download speeds over 5G networks.

The recently published study describes an ultra-wideband transmission over the air that combines electronic and photonic-assisted signal generation to send 938 Gbps over a 5-150GHz frequency range. The researchers point out that traditional wireless networks use radio frequencies operating below 6GHz, providing an average speed of 100 Megabits per second over 5G.

A big emphasis of the Journey Lens is to pull you away from your smartphone and allow you to control your day-to-day experience more from the glasses. That’s why this lightweight device has that small see-through display in the upper righthand corner, acting almost like an annotation on what you encounter rather than something in the middle of your field of view that’s trying to control what you see.

Phantom Technology offers a range of different monthly plans based on the experience the user wants with the Journey Lens glasses. These start with a free plan and go up to a premium pro plan at $18 a month, which includes early access to new features and something called Deep Focus.

As shown in the image above, there is a range of how many apps you can connect to the glasses for getting notifications, reading messages and so on—just three with the standard plan, or unlimited apps with the premium and premium pro plans. Three months of the premium plan is included for free with a pre-order of the $195 device, but I believe Phantom Technology would be better served to give everyone three free months of this plan so that new users can understand the value.

The eROSITA survey detected more than 170 million X-ray photons in just 6 months.

Astronomers have created the largest and most detailed X-ray map of the universe, revealing more than 900,000 deep-space objects. This map was produced using data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey, an ambitious mission that scanned the sky between December 2019 and June 2020, detecting more than 170 million X-ray photons. These findings, including over 700,000 supermassive black holes, galaxy clusters, and other exotic objects, mark a significant leap forward in X-ray astronomy.

The eROSITA Mission The eROSITA X-ray telescope, managed by the Max Planck Society, aimed to capture a complete X-ray survey of the sky. Over six months, the survey gathered an unprecedented amount of data, identifying nearly 900,000 distinct celestial objects. This figure exceeds the number of sources detected by NASA’s Chandra and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton X-ray telescopes over the past 25 years combined.

What is consciousness, and is it really inherent only to humans? In this video, we explore whether consciousness is not only inherent in humans, but also in animals, artificial intelligence, and even the universe itself. We dive into the complex concepts of panpsychism and quantum consciousness, looking at Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff’s Orch-OR project, which claims that quantum processes in microtubules may underlie consciousness. We will analyze Giulio Tononi’s Integral Information Theory, which proposes to quantify the level of consciousness in any system.

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