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2023-01-01 02:01:58 Happy New Year 12,023 HE!

Happy New Year to all of our followers! As we enter into this new year, we are excited to continue bringing you the latest and greatest in science news and discoveries. Our break is ending and regular posting will resume!

Here's to a year of new breakthroughs, discoveries, and advances that will shape our understanding of the world around us. Thank you for being a part of our community, and wishing everyone a bright and prosperous new year!

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2022-12-09 02:53:47 ‘Great scientific step forward’: Construction of world’s largest radio observatory is finally under way
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2022-12-03 23:05:20 Short term memory problems can be improved with laser therapy, according to new study

Laser light therapy has been shown to be effective in improving short term memory in a study published in Science Advances.

Scientists at the University of Birmingham in the U.K. and Beijing Normal University in China, demonstrated that the therapy, which is non-invasive, could improve short term, or working memory in people by up to 25%.

The treatment, called transcranial photobiomodulation (tPBM), is applied to an area of the brain known as the right prefrontal cortex. This area is widely recognized as important for working memory. In their experiment, the team showed how working memory improved among research participants after several minutes of treatment. They were also able to track the changes in brain activity using electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring during treatment and testing.

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2022-12-02 20:14:25 A 'Wormhole' Built on a Quantum Computer Teleported Information as Predicted

For the first time, scientists have created a quantum computing experiment for studying the dynamics of wormholes – that is, shortcuts through spacetime that could get around relativity's cosmic speed limits.

"We found a quantum system that exhibits key properties of a gravitational wormhole, yet is sufficiently small to implement on today's quantum hardware," said Caltech physicist Maria Spiropulu.

Don't pack your bags for Alpha Centauri just yet: This wormhole simulation is nothing more than a simulation, analogous to a computer-generated black hole or supernova.

And physicists still don't see any conditions under which a traversable wormhole could actually be created. Someone would have to create negative energy first.

Columbia theoretical physicist Peter Woit warned against making too much of a to-do over the research.

"The claim that 'Physicists Create a Wormhole' is just complete bullshit, with the huge campaign to mislead the public about this a disgrace, highly unhelpful for the credibility of physics research in particular and science in general," he wrote on his blog.

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2022-11-28 21:00:02 A scalable quantum memory with a lifetime over 2 seconds and integrated error detection

Quantum memory devices can store data as quantum states instead of binary states, as classical computer memories do. While some existing quantum memory technologies have achieved highly promising results, several challenges will need to be overcome before they can be implemented on a large scale.

Researchers at the AWS Center for Quantum Networking and Harvard University have recently developed a promising quantum memory capable of error detection and with a lifetime or coherence time (i.e., the time for which a quantum memory can hold a superposition without collapsing) exceeding 2 seconds. This memory, presented in a paper in Science, could pave the way towards the creation of scalable quantum networks.

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2022-11-28 10:00:49 The Science Behind Why You Sprain Your Ankle So Often, And What You Can Do About It

Are you one of those people who seems to be forever spraining their ankle?

To some extent, ankle sprains are part and parcel of being active.

But if it's happening again and again, here's what may be going on – and how you can reduce your risk of recurrent ankle sprain.

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2022-11-27 21:28:56 Webb’s latest data gives us the first molecular and chemical profile of a distant world, gas giant WASP-39 b. This bodes well for its ability to probe the atmospheres of small, rocky planets like in the TRAPPIST-1 system.

‍We learn about exoplanet atmospheres by breaking their light into components and creating spectra. Think of a spectrum as a barcode. Elements and molecules have characteristic signatures in that “barcode” we can read.

WASP-39 b is an old friend! In August, Webb showed the first clear evidence of carbon dioxide in a planet outside our solar system. New data from the same planet also shows water, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, sodium and potassium.

‍What else does the data tell us?
First detection of sulfur dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere
Concrete evidence of photochemistry (fundamental for life on Earth)
Its clouds may be broken up, not one uniform blanket
Clues to how the planet formed

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2022-11-27 21:16:09 We Just Got The Most Detailed View of an Exoplanet Atmosphere Yet – And It's Active

WASP-39b, a gas giant about 700 light-years away, is turning out to be quite the exoplanetary treasure.

Earlier this year, WASP-39b was the subject of the first-ever detection of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside the Solar System.

Now, an in-depth analysis of data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has given us an absolute goldmine of information: the most detailed look at an exoplanet atmosphere yet...

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2022-11-25 21:00:36 Sperm Counts Are Dropping Across The World, And The Decline Is Accelerating
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