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Nov 16, 2022

Can physics explain consciousness and does it create reality?

Posted by in categories: neuroscience, quantum physics

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We are finally testing the ideas that quantum collapse in the brain gives rise to consciousness and that consciousness creates the reality we see from the quantum world.

Nov 16, 2022

Chinese scientists build atom-sized ‘4-stroke’ quantum engine

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

Researchers use lasers to increase or suppress an ion’s quantum characteristics and generate power at microscopic level.

Nov 16, 2022

Doctors Treated a Child for a Genetic Disease Before She Was Born

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

Treating fetuses for the enzyme deficiency might prevent early disease progression.

Nov 16, 2022

Lab-grown meat cleared for human consumption

Posted by in category: innovation

WASHINGTON, Nov 16 (Reuters) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the first time cleared a meat product grown from animal cells for human consumption, the agency announced on Wednesday.

UPSIDE Foods, a company that makes cell-cultured chicken by harvesting cells from live animals and using the cells to grow meat in stainless-steel tanks, will be able to bring its products to market once it has been inspected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), said a release from the FDA.

“The world is experiencing a food revolution and the (FDA) is committed to supporting innovation in the food supply,” said FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf and Susan Mayne, director of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition in a statement.

Nov 16, 2022

Postponing the Heat Death of the Universe

Posted by in categories: cosmology, futurism

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According to modern cosmology, one day all the stars will burn out and the Universe will be full of dead planets, black holes, and other stellar remnants, slowing decaying till entropy brings the Heat Death of the Universe. But could this fate be postponed or even reversed?

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Nov 16, 2022

Computational Creativity

Posted by in categories: computing, neuroscience

As part of its quest to develop cognitive systems, IBM Research is exploring whether a computer can be creative by designing a machine that can create surprising yet flavorful recipe ideas no cookbook has ever thought of in order to enhance human creativity.

http://www.research.ibm.com/cognitive-computing/computational-creativity.shtml

Nov 16, 2022

Are there Undiscovered Elements Beyond The Periodic Table?

Posted by in categories: chemistry, physics, space

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Nov 16, 2022

Track NASA’s Artemis I Mission in Real Time

Posted by in category: space travel

Join NASA’s Orion spacecraft on its first mission around the Moon using the Artemis Real-time Orbit Website (AROW) to track the spacecraft’s flight as it happens.

Nov 16, 2022

Inside the billion-dollar meeting for the mega-rich who want to live forever

Posted by in category: life extension

Hope, hype, and self-experimentation collided at an exclusive conference for ultra-rich investors who want to extend their lives past 100. I went along for the ride.

Nov 16, 2022

No, there isn’t a hole in the Universe

Posted by in category: futurism

The image you’re seeing isn’t a hole in the Universe, and the cosmic voids that do exist aren’t hole-like at all.