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Mar 17, 2022

Can We Resurrect Extinct Species? Scientists Put Jurassic Park to the Test

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, education, existential risks, genetics

De-extinction grabbed our imagination in the 90s with Jurassic Park. Scientists have since asked: how possible is it?

According to a new study, nearly impossible. But wait—it’s not all bad news. While bringing back a faithful copy of an extinct species may be impossible, we could bring back a hybrid species that’s a genetic mix between an extinct species and its modern descendant.

Published in Current Biology, the study eschews the grandiose mammoth, instead focusing on a tiny test case: the Christmas Island rat. Hefty in size and loudly vocal when invading docked ships and their cargo, the rodents were last seen in the 1900s. With a stroke of luck, the team recovered DNA from two well-preserved museum samples and compared them against a close relative: the Norway brown rat, a popular lab model for genetic studies today.

Mar 17, 2022

The material that could help humans become cyborgs

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, materials

Coating implantable electronics in the polymer PEDOT can extend their life, which could make more common in the future.

Mar 17, 2022

Is Dark Matter In The Room With Me Right Now? Scientists Say Yes

Posted by in category: cosmology

We don’t wanna freak you out, but there’s a serious likelihood that dark matter could be in the room with you right now, and could even be passing through your body as you read this.

“Yeah, absolutely. It’s here,” Yeshiva University researcher Ed Belbruno told Futurism. “Where you’re sitting, you’re feeling, on some level which is beyond our senses… that force.”

It makes sense. Dark matter, which scientists have yet to observe or measure directly, is estimated to make up 95 percent of the universe. With a substance that prevalent, the likelihood that it’s made its way to Earth and into our homes and bodies seems high, right?

Mar 17, 2022

NASA Rover Detects Organic Molecules on the Surface of Mars

Posted by in category: space

While it’s an exciting discovery, it falls short of demonstrating that carbon-based lifeforms once lived on the surface of the Red Planet. It is, however, a step in that direction.

“This experiment was definitely successful,” Maëva Millan, postdoctoral fellow at NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center and lead author of a new study published on Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy, told Inverse.

“While we haven’t found what we were looking for, biosignatures, we showed that this technique is really promising,” she added.

Mar 17, 2022

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Posted by in categories: education, law, robotics/AI

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Mar 17, 2022

The World in 2300: Top 9 Future Technologies

Posted by in categories: biological, bitcoin, finance, mathematics, physics, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI, singularity

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Mar 17, 2022

Materials scientists discover why perovskite solar cells degrade in sunlight

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

Materials scientists at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and colleagues from five other universities around the world have discovered the major reason why perovskite solar cells—which show great promise for improved energy-conversion efficiency—degrade in sunlight, causing their performance to suffer over time. The team successfully demonstrated a simple manufacturing adjustment to fix the cause of the degradation, clearing the biggest hurdle toward the widespread adoption of the thin-film solar cell technology.

A detailing the findings was published today in Nature. The research is led by Yang Yang, a UCLA Samueli professor of materials science and engineering and holder of the Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr., Endowed Chair. The co-first authors are Shaun Tan and Tianyi Huang, both recent UCLA Samueli Ph.D. graduates whom Yang advised.

Perovskites are a group of materials that have the same atomic arrangement or crystal structure as the mineral calcium titanium oxide. A subgroup of perovskites, , are of great research interest because of their promising application for energy-efficient, .

Mar 17, 2022

1st image from NASA’s new IXPE X-ray telescope looks like a ball of purple lightning

Posted by in categories: climatology, cosmology

NASA’s newly-launched X-ray hunting probe has snapped its first science image and — wow — it’s spectacular.

The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) probe launched Dec. 9, 2021, on a mission to observe objects like black holes and neutron stars in X-ray light, shedding much-anticipated light on the inner workings of the cosmos. The probe spent its first month in space checking out its various systems to get ready to capture its first images, and now the IXPE team has released its very first science image.

Mar 16, 2022

Why don’t RTD’s trains go into Denver’s neighborhoods?

Posted by in category: transportation

Need to get to a park-and-ride in the suburbs? No problem. Somewhere in the city? Get on the bus.

Mar 16, 2022

Temperature-dependent model to calculate solar LCOE

Posted by in category: energy

Developed by researchers in Saudi Arabia, the novel approach considers both the power yield and the solar module time to failure (TTF), among other factors. According to its creators, the model can be applied to all kinds of module and cell technologies.