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Mar 12, 2022

How SpaceX could save the ISS if Russia bails

Posted by in category: space travel

Musk’s Dragons stand ready to help.


Russian rockets are essential for keeping the station in place — but a modified Crew Dragon could do the trick.

Mar 11, 2022

Study shows different brain cells process positive, negative experiences

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Combining two cutting-edge techniques reveals that neurons in the prefrontal cortex are built to respond to reward or aversion, a finding with implications for treating mental illness and addictions.

The plays a mysterious yet central role in the mammalian brain. It has been linked to mood regulation, and different cells in the prefrontal cortex seem to respond to positive and negative experiences. How the prefrontal cortex governs these opposing processes of reward or aversion, however, has been largely unknown.

In a new paper published online May 26 in Cell, researchers at Stanford, led by Karl Deisseroth, have united two transformational research techniques to show how the prefrontal circuits that process positive and negative experiences are distinctly and fundamentally different from one another, both in how they function and in how they are wired to other parts of the brain.

Mar 11, 2022

Fact check: Is Russia’s claim of US-owned biowarfare labs in Ukraine true?

Posted by in categories: biological, military

Mar 11, 2022

Why Everywhere in the US is Starting to Look the Same

Posted by in category: futurism

Mar 11, 2022

A new lunar rover design from California’s Death Valley aims for the Moon

Posted by in category: space travel

Mar 11, 2022

Our solar system rocks: here’s all you need to know about it

Posted by in category: space

Mar 11, 2022

The Metaverse is seeing a surge in real estate prices. Don’t panic

Posted by in categories: education, internet, space

Is Metaverse a boom or a bubble?

There is hardly a day that goes by without a mention of the metaverse. Since Facebook’s brand name changed to Meta, the word has really caught on and everybody wants to be a part of it.

Mark Zuckerberg may have drawn the world’s attention to the metaverse but the digital world has been on the rise for quite some time. Minecraft, an online game, has been around since 2011, where not only does one get to stay in a digital world but also has the tools to build it around themselves. With their versions of the metaverse, what Meta and the others now want to do, is build up these worlds rapidly, so that people can just come and spend their time in there. ## Time is Money.

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Mar 11, 2022

Could Russia’s space agency be hinting at a detachment from the ISS?

Posted by in category: space

Mar 11, 2022

Math’s ‘Oldest Problem Ever’ Gets a New Answer

Posted by in category: mathematics

A new proof significantly strengthens a decades-old result about the ubiquity of ways to represent whole numbers as sums of unit fractions.

Mar 11, 2022

These Transistor Gates Are Just One Carbon Atom Thick

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics

Scientists in China have created a transistor using graphene and molybdenum disulfide with a gate length of just 0.34 nanometers. “We have realized the world’s smallest gate-length transistor,” says one of the paper’s authors, an electrical engineer at Tsinghua University in Beijing.