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When we learned to ride - Bernie's Astronomy for october - Larry¿s comments - Sabina's Quantum Gravity - Alzheimer breakthrough - Conscious Awareness breakthrough - AI Chicken whisperer - Transplanted retinal cells - Sharp old minds - Bad dental health and Dementia - Doudna takes on the Microbiome - Big powerful X-Ray laser - Smart Jellyfish - Tasmanian Tiger has its RNA extracted - Truth about Butterflies - Sticky survival - Naughty Coral - Art Scam - Life that shouldn't be - Billionaires want your children to live forever - The Cosmological/Astro thingee - Thw AI stuff - Blue LED's - Neutrinos interact with light - Tiny World of Insects.
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Photographer Captures Rare Pic of a Monkey Taking a Deer For a JoyrideThey lounge in hot tubs, have active sex lives, and sometimes, take joyrides.

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She got famous on YouTube. Now it helps fund her research in quantum gravityThis theoretical physicist and mathematician drops a new video several times a month, dispensing her dry wit and pithy wisdom to a loyal fan base of nerds across the internet.

Groundbreaking Study Uncovers Origin of “Conscious Awareness”The research on infants provides the first quantified observations showing the 'emergence' of agency or purpose in humans. Living things act with purpose. But where does purpose come from? How do humans make sense of their relation to the world and realize their ability to effect change? These fund

Advancing retinal cell therapy: New insights into transplanted retinal cells could treat degenerative vision in elderlyA team of scientists in Singapore has discovered new behavior in transplanted stem cell derived retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells, which could help treat Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD), one of the leading causes of irreversible blindness and visual impairment in elderly. Using preclinical models, the research team identified a special group of transplanted RPE cells that closely resembled healthy adult human RPE cells, which play a vital role in supporting vision.

Research Suggests That Bad Dental Health May Increase Risk of DementiaA growing body of research shows that poor dental health is linked with cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease.

The World's Most Powerful X-Ray Laser Has Been Fired For The First Time - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, housing the world’s most potent publicly known X-ray laser, has achieved a major breakth

Tasmanian Tiger Becomes First Extinct Animal To Have Its RNA ExtractedThe Tasmanian tiger has a long, checkered history that now includes being the first extinct animal family from which scientists have recovered RNA, the molecule that brings a species' genome to life.

This Artist Just Got Ordered To Pay $76,000 To A Museum After Turning In Blank Canvases As 'Art' - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement In a surprising turn of events, Danish conceptual artist Jens Haaning has been directed to reimburse the Kunsten Museum in Aalborg with

Mark Zuckerberg And Priscilla Chan Are Building A Computing System To Help Eliminate Human Disease By 2100 - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement In a groundbreaking pursuit that envisions a world free from the shackles of disease, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have unveiled t

The “Cosmological Crisis”Storm in a redshift teacup aboard the Titanic

Astronomers find abundance of Milky Way–like galaxies in early universe, rewriting cosmic evolution theoriesGalaxies from the early universe are more like our own Milky Way than previously thought, flipping the entire narrative of how scientists think about structure formation in the universe, according to new research published today.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission Has Successfully Delivered An Asteroid Sample To The Earth - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement In a momentous achievement, NASA’s spacecraft has safely delivered a canister filled with approximately a cup’s worth of ast

Google Bard Can Now Find Answers In Gmail, Docs And Drive - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement Google’s Bard AI chatbot has taken a significant step forward in its capabilities. Originally limited to sourcing information sole

Neutrinos: 'Ghost Particles' Can Interact With Light After AllNeutrinos, the tricky little particles that just stream through the Universe like it's virtually nothing, may actually interact with light after all.

Beware the Heat – Living in Warm Temperatures Linked to Severe Vision Problems in Older AmericansIn a study involving 1.7 million elderly Americans, individuals residing in counties with an average temperature exceeding 60 °F faced a significantly increased risk of severe vision problems compared to those in cooler areas. According to a recent study published in the journal Ophthalmic Epidem

Thousands of California wells are at risk of drying up despite landmark water lawEven though California enacted sweeping legislation nearly a decade ago to curb excessive agricultural pumping of groundwater, new research predicts that thousands of drinking water wells could run dry in the Central Valley by the time the law's restrictions take full effect in 2040.

Atlas of Mysterious Fairy Circles Shows They're More Widespread Than We ThoughtMysterious, bare patches of ground that polka-dot the deserts of Namibia and Australia are far more widespread than we knew.

Hippos in The Desert: Study Reveals Why And When The Sahara Desert Turned GreenOur planet has changed a lot over billions of years, from the location of the continents to the makeup of the atmosphere, and a new study looks in detail at the history of the Sahara desert – which wasn't always an arid wilderness.

Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica Speeds Up After Calving of Giant IcebergFollowing the calving of the A-81 iceberg at the end of January 2023, the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica is moving faster than before. It is currently moving approximately 4 meters (13 feet) a day towards the sea, whereas before the calving it moved at an average of between 1-2.5 meters (3-8 feet) a

Unprecedented Temperatures: Scientists Expect 2023 To Be the Hottest Year Ever2023 is projected to be the hottest year ever, with May being the warmest month recorded, based on the CMST 2.0 dataset study. The climate crisis is reaching an unprecedented level of urgency as global temperatures soar to record-breaking heights, with July 2023 marking another alarming milestone

“Shocking” – Rate of Climate-Driven Extinction Is Drastically AcceleratingResearchers studying a lizard species in southeastern Arizona discovered that 70 years' worth of climate-related extinction occurred in only seven years. A recent study from the University of Arizona reveals that climate change is accelerating the rate of extinction. Researchers surveyed population

People Who Work From Home All The Time ‘Cut Emissions By 54%’ Against Those In Office, Report Says - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement A recent study reveals that individuals who work remotely full-time contribute less than half the greenhouse gas emissions of their offi

Full Steam Ahead: Extracting Over 65% More Heat From Geothermal ReservoirsPenn State scientists propose a method to boost geothermal energy efficiency by controlling water flow with temperature-reactive materials, potentially increasing heat extraction by over 65% in 50 years. Geothermal heat is a promising renewable energy source with nearly zero emissions. However, d

Water fleas may hold key to cleaner environment and better human healthTiny water fleas could play a pivotal role in removing persistent chemical pollutants from wastewater—making it safe to use in factories, farms and homes, a new study reveals.

Bernie's October Astronomy

wuoct23.docx

Larry's comments for September 26th

stuff for Sep 26.pdf

Alzheimer’s Breakthrough – New Therapeutic Target DiscoveredResearchers from Laval University and the University of Lethbridge have successfully reversed certain cognitive manifestations linked to Alzheimer's disease in an animal model. Their findings were recently published in the journal Brain. "Although this has yet to be demonstrated in humans, we bel

This New AI Can Translate What Chickens Are Saying, Scientists Say - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement In a fascinating foray into the world of poultry linguistics, a team of Japanese researchers claims to have harnessed the power of AI to

New Study: Older Adults Who Participate in This Leisure Activity Have the Memory of a 20-Year-OldA recent study from the University of York has revealed that elderly individuals engaging in digital puzzle games exhibit memory capacities comparable to those in their 20s. Furthermore, the research demonstrated that adults 60 years and older who indulge in digital puzzle games are better at ign

Crispr Pioneer Jennifer Doudna Has the Guts to Take On the MicrobiomeThe world-famous biochemist is ready to tackle everything from immune disorders and mental illness to climate change—all by altering microbes in the digestive tract.

Jellyfish shown to learn from past experience for the first timeJellyfish are more advanced than once thought. A new study from the University of Copenhagen has demonstrated that Caribbean box jellyfish can learn at a much more complex level than ever imagined—despite only having one thousand nerve cells and no centralized brain. The finding changes our fundamental understanding of the brain and could enlighten us about our own mysterious brains.

95% Of NFTs Are Now Worthless, Reports Say - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement Are NFTs still a thing? Well, it seems like they might not be as hot as they used to be. There’s this study done by dappGambl, and

Recoding Life - proto.lifeScientists have created an organism that defies the rules of biology by using nonstandard amino acids. And you probably have some questions.

A Collision Between Gigantic Galaxy Clusters. Too Big, Too EarlyAstronomers take another look at gigantic galaxy clusters by finding the mass of the El Gordo cluster. They find that it formed too early.

“Should Not Have Happened” – Titanic Galaxy Cluster Collision Defies Cosmology TheoriesA collision of two massive clusters of galaxies when the Universe was half its current age should not have happened according to the standard theory of cosmology, says a new study by an international group of astronomers. The El Gordo Cluster According to the Lambda-cold dark matter (ΛCDM) standar

History Is Made: NASA’s First Asteroid Sample Has Landed, Now Secure in Clean RoomNASA's OSIRIS-REx mission achieved success by safely returning a capsule with asteroid Bennu samples to Earth, paving the way for critical scientific research on planetary formation and life's origins. After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretatio

High-Profile Authors Including John Grisham An George R.R. Martin Are Suing OpenAI For Copyright Theft - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement In a recent development that has sent ripples through the literary world, 17 prominent authors, including John Grisham, Jodi Picoult, an

Scientists Light Up A Blue LED With An AA Battery For The Very First Time - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement A group of scientists from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT), working together with other universities in Japan, has created a new

Groundbreaking New Study Reveals The Secrets Of The Pollution Caused By America's Wealthiest People - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement A recent research study discovered that the richest 10 percent of people in the United States are causing 40 percent of the harmful poll

Scientists Perform Health Check On The Earth, Find It Is ‘Well Outside Safe Operating Space For Humanity’ - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement A recent analysis conducted by 29 scientists from eight different countries paints a worrying picture of the state of our planet’s

The Sahara’s Secret Past: When Deserts Turned GreenA pioneering study has unveiled new insights into the humid phases in North Africa over the last 800,000 years, explaining why the Sahara Desert periodically transformed green. The study, recently published in the journal Nature Communications, showed periodic wet phases in the Sahara were driven

The mystery of Siberia's exploding craters - BBC Reel

Antarctica's Ice Has Shrunk To Alarmingly Low Levels, Scientists Say - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement Brand new satellite pictures, as highlighted by the National Snow and Ice Data Center through a BBC report, have revealed disturbing new

A Huge 1GW Wind Farm Is Being Built In Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement In keeping with a grand vision of harnessing renewable energy, there’s an audacious move in the works. Ukraine and Germany are wor

This Revolutionary New "True Zero Carbon" Cement Uses Electrolysis Instead Of Furnaces - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement In the field of sustainable construction, Sublime Cement emerges as a revolutionary contender, poised to disrupt traditional cement manu

New Power Generator Produces Continuous Electricity From Natural Atmospheric HumidityScientists have created a power generator that uses atmospheric humidity and polyoxometalates to produce continuous electricity, offering a sustainable way to utilize low-value energy. Scientists are exploring methods to harness the low-value energy found abundantly in natural environments to pro

AI Can Already Design Better Cities Than Humans, Study ShowsImagine living in a cool, green city flush with parks and threaded with footpaths, bike lanes, and buses, which ferry people to shops, schools, and service centers in a matter of minutes.

Bernie Reim's astronomical update for September

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