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Jul 22, 2021
This New Malware Hides Itself Among Windows Defender Exclusions to Evade Detection
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: cybercrime/malcode
Researchers warn about a new malware that hides among Windows Defender’s exclusions to evade detection by the antivirus program.
Jul 22, 2021
Russia’s Nica: Big Bang Questions | RT Documentary
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: biotech/medical, education, nuclear energy
RT Documentary’s new film Russia’s NICA: Big Bang questions takes you to the Russian nuclear facility in Dubna where a collider is being built as part of the NICA mega-science project. It can recreate the beginning of the world 14 billion years ago.
This research can be used to learn how the universe was formed, according to the Big Bang theory, and the data obtained in the process will be essential to many other areas of science.
The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna has been operating since Soviet times, and this is where the Synchrophasotron elementary particle accelerator was built in the 1960s. It is still functional and can be used, but it takes an excessive amount of energy. Nevertheless, it remains a monument to Soviet science and the attempts to learn about the universe.
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Jul 22, 2021
Intel teases plan to speed up chip advancements
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: computing
Intel’s client computing group saw $10.1 billion in revenue.
Intel’s Q2 2021 earnings results are in, and the company rode positive PC sales to results that beat expectations. It promises more new on its chip advancements on July 26th.
Jul 22, 2021
100-Qubit Quantum Computing System Unveiled
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: computing, quantum physics
Startup reveals a unique quantum computing system.
Quantum computing startup claims it has a 100-qubit quantum computing system.
Jul 22, 2021
Brain Cells Snap Open Their DNA To Make Memories – Extent of DNA Double-Strand Breaks Is “Surprising and Concerning”
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, neuroscience
To quickly express learning and memory genes, brain cells snap both strands of DNA in many more places and cell types than previously realized, a new study shows.
The urgency to remember a dangerous experience requires the brain to make a series of potentially dangerous moves: Neurons and other brain cells snap open their DNA in numerous locations — more than previously realized, according to a new study — to provide quick access to genetic instructions for the mechanisms of memory storage.
The extent of these DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) in multiple key brain regions is surprising and concerning, says study senior author Li-Huei Tsai, Picower Professor of Neuroscience at MIT and director of The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, because while the breaks are routinely repaired, that process may become more flawed and fragile with age. Tsai’s lab has shown that lingering DSBs are associated with neurodegeneration and cognitive decline and that repair mechanisms can falter.
Jul 22, 2021
AI breakthrough could spark medical revolution
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
A program has been used to predict the structures of nearly every protein in the human body.
Jul 22, 2021
RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50% more potatoes, rice
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in categories: food, innovation
Manipulating RNA can allow plants to yield dramatically more crops, as well as increasing drought tolerance, announced a group of scientists from the University of Chicago, Peking University and Guizhou University.
In initial tests, adding a gene encoding for a protein called FTO to both rice and potato plants increased their yield by 50% in field tests. The plants grew significantly larger, produced longer root systems and were better able to tolerate drought stress. Analysis also showed that the plants had increased their rate of photosynthesis.
“The change really is dramatic,” said University of Chicago Prof. Chuan He, who together with Prof. Guifang Jia at Peking University, led the research. “What’s more, it worked with almost every type of plant we tried it with so far, and it’s a very simple modification to make.”
Jul 22, 2021
NASA finally knows what is beneath the surface of Mars
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in category: space
“The fact that we recorded it confirmed that the core is liquid.”
What you may not realize, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory geophysicist Mark Panning tells Inverse, is that those diagrams “are cartoons and guesses,” based on gravitational measurements. The only planet whose structure scientists actually understand in detail is Earth.
We know the innards of Earth through seismology measurements — something that hasn’t been available for other planets. This was true until just recently: According to a trio of papers published Thursday in Science, researchers can finally confirm Mars has a large liquid metal core.
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Jul 22, 2021
First clear detection of moon-forming disc around exoplanet
Posted by Future Timeline in category: space
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have today reported the first clear detection of a moon-forming disc around an exoplanet.