The Historyscoper's Science & Technology News Blog: May 2022

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Monday, May 30, 2022

Is A Lunar Crew Dragon Possible? (And Other Questions) | Lightning Round (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUEjqLkV56k

Thursday, May 26, 2022

Stanford says butchering and harvesting blood and organs from children can help adults achieve “immortality”

https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-05-19-stanford-butchering-harvesting-blood-organs-children-immortality.html

Voyager 1 producing anomalous telemetry data

https://principia-scientific.com/voyager-1-producing-anomalous-telemetry-data/

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

What's eating the universe? - with Paul Davies (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08aLgCb56_w

The Closest We Have to a Theory of Everything - Sabine Hossenfelder (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0da8TEeaeE

Sunday, May 22, 2022

Going ham: Researchers make hamsters aggressive through gene manipulation

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/going-ham-researchers-make-hamsters-aggressive-through-gene-manipulation

Friday, May 20, 2022

USMC has armed suicide drones

How to Slice a Pie in Four Dimensions, According to Math

Black holes prove we live in a Holographic Universe

World's first 3-D printed artificial animal

https://ufoholic.com/worlds-first-3d-printed-artificial-animal/

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

These Sound Waves Could Make You Feel High, Scientists Say

The Future of Skyscrapers Could Include Cloud-Making Towers and Tsunami-Stopping Designs

A U.S. Satellite Spotted a Likely New Chinese Missile Submarine

The Universe Might Be Able To Bend the Laws of Physics All By Itself

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Why does uranium glass glow green?

The Charm Meson Particle May Have Changed the Nature of Reality as We Know it

https://katrinapaulson.medium.com/the-charm-meson-particle-may-have-changed-the-nature-of-reality-as-we-know-it-ad37efd33c99

Monday, May 16, 2022

Most distant laser ever found in a galaxy 6.6 billion light-years away Forget about the terawatt lasers we’re making on Earth. This natural one is thousands of times more powerful than the Sun. Here on Earth, the very idea of a laser is relatively novel, having only been invented in 1958. The underlying physics is straightforward, as…

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/most-distant-laser-ever-found-in-a-galaxy-6-6-billion-light-years-away-97efa5e2a3fd

A quasar-galaxy hybrid could be astronomy’s “missing link” Single objects rarely change the course of an entire scientific field. Distant object GNz7q, a galaxy-quasar hybrid, might do exactly that. Out in the distant Universe, a cosmic mystery awaits a solution.

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/a-quasar-galaxy-hybrid-could-be-astronomys-missing-link-374c963b7e4f

Ask Ethan: Why is the Universe electrically neutral? For some reason, the charges on the electron and proton are equal and opposite, and their numbers are equal, too. But why? Everywhere we look, on each and every one of the largest cosmic scales, it’s gravitation that dominates the structure that we form. From planets to stars, stellar systems…

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-why-is-the-universe-electrically-neutral-d16ebdc67de4

Is the Universe actually a fractal?

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/is-the-universe-actually-a-fractal-16a069ea12b7

Space Mining: By the Numbers

https://medium.com/predict/space-mining-by-the-numbers-9d66da06ce12

What would it take to make a black hole? And what's a black hole laser? (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avwY1OBhaBk

Sunday, May 15, 2022

Is life possible on Mars? Was there ever life on Mars? Is there life on Mars now? Did it originate there or here, on Earth? All possibilities are fascinating. For as long as humanity has been watching the skies, we’ve been fascinated with the possibility that other worlds — much like Earth — might contain living organisms. While our visits to the Moon…

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/is-life-possible-on-mars-2d1e3aa99791

Saturday, May 14, 2022

Startling new images of Mars show a large circular sign and giant, claw-like scratches — What the heck is that? The Mars Express probe has been working in Mars orbit since 2003. It has just sent back extraordinary images of one region of the Red Planet.

https://medium.com/@darkmatterarticles/startling-new-images-of-mars-show-a-large-circular-sign-and-giant-claw-like-scratches-what-the-4432d56b6bab

Why distance is not what it seems in the expanding universe

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/why-distance-is-not-what-it-seems-in-the-expanding-universe-68af2e03b4f2

Origin of the Universe: Is Absence of State Possible? "Why is there something rather than nothing?" is a question that has puzzled some of the most prominent philosophers for centuries. Why is there something, when it intuitively seems easier that nothing would exist? This “something” must have caused the Big Bang too, right? Everything around us and everything we can sense suggests that we live in a world of…

https://medium.com/predict/origin-of-the-universe-is-absence-of-state-possible-ef33f0a8c07a

Mind-Blowing Quantum Physics in 5 Minutes. A neat party trick with a coin to impress your friends.

https://patrickdlynch.medium.com/mind-blowing-quantum-physics-in-five-minutes-ae1d4c7c0cd6

The Means to Anti-Gravity An Invention. We’ve Had for 170 Years is Likely the Answer.

https://andylehti.medium.com/the-means-to-anti-gravity-82ada318c89a

Mastering Schrodinger wave equation from scratch perfectly

https://medium.com/@bongsang/mastering-schrodingers-wave-equation-from-scrach-perfectly-fcf527704ffe

Rationality is instrumental, and that’s a problem. The subtle and complex relationship between logic, philosophy, and science

https://philosophyasawayoflife.medium.com/rationality-is-instrumental-and-thats-a-problem-5bb1e0613e16

What we wish we knew about the origin of life Shortly after planet Earth formed, life took a permanent hold on our surface. But just how common is such an outcome? Out there in the Universe, there are hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way, each with their own set of planets, moons, and opportunities for life to arise. Beyond the Milky Way…

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/what-we-wish-we-knew-about-the-origin-of-life-e3beb48340fb

Thursday, May 12, 2022

The Pentagon’s Nuclear Thermal Rocket Is Getting Serious

Everything you see is really 15 sec in the past

The Coolest Things Ever Found Buried In Ice

https://www.domesticatedcompanion.com/the-coolest-things-ever-found-trapped-in-ice/5

Will You Really Die From an Air Bubble in a Syringe? Air is great in your lungs, but will an air injection in your veins leave you dead?

https://medium.com/a-microbiome-scientist-at-large/will-you-really-die-from-an-air-bubble-in-a-syringe-19b484e3a386

Where do James Webb’s unique “spikes” come from? When we started imaging the Universe with Hubble, every star had four “spikes” coming from it. Here’s why Webb will have more. Less than three months after its initial launch, it finally happened: the James Webb Space Telescope revealed its first telescope alignment evaluation image. For the first…

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/where-do-james-webbs-unique-spikes-come-from-78ce388f26cf

New Desalination Technology. Fresh water from salt, solar powered, with design input from machine learning. I can’t wait!

https://medium.com/the-dock-on-the-bay/new-desalination-technology-36730cb8b32

Can Floating Nuclear Reactors Save The World? Can a nuclear ship turn the tide on climate change and fight Russia? Right now, the world seems pretty messed up. The Earth is dying before our very eyes and World War III seems imminent. Both of which threaten not only our health but also this gorgeous planet we call home. However, Samsung recently partnered with Seabord to create a…

https://medium.com/predict/can-floating-nuclear-reactors-save-the-world-4f0578aaa27b

Earthquakes Predicted By Artificial Intelligence Disproves What Scientists Have Been Telling Us

https://medium.com/nico-s-ideas/earthquakes-predicted-by-artificial-intelligence-disproves-what-scientists-have-been-telling-us-969a4eefb624

Killer Robots Are Here—and We Need to Regulate Them. Once lethal autonomous weapons systems begin to spread, they will be difficult to control.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/05/11/killer-robots-lethal-autonomous-weapons-systems-ukraine-libya-regulation/

World gets to see the first image of the supermassive black hole Astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/science/astronomers-capture-1st-image-of-milky-ways-huge-black-hole/

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

The Fusion Reactor You Can Carry In A Backpack Could a new fusion reactor design finally unlock this ultimate energy source? Nuclear fusion power could save the world. With it we would have, on-tap, near-limitless energy with zero carbon emissions. We could power our modern lives and beyond without fear of killing Mother Earth. In our quest to unlock this elusive power we have…

https://medium.com/predict/the-fusion-reactor-you-can-carry-in-a-backpack-995ccc02dc0d

It was the largest earthquake in history — its effects were felt for 1000 years! Where did it happen? Scientists have found evidence of the largest earthquake that has caused catastrophic consequences for mankind. Its magnitude was 9.5.

https://medium.com/@darkmatterarticles/it-was-the-largest-earthquake-in-history-its-effects-were-felt-for-1000-years-d67c9ae836ec

Monday, May 9, 2022

Nature Has a Lot of Love, but No Altruism

https://michaellaitman.medium.com/nature-has-a-lot-of-love-but-no-altruism-7256dfd43ad9

‘Histotripsy’ partially kills cancer cells & prevents metastases. The breakthrough technique not only effectively targets tumors, but also employs the immune system to stop further spread Apart from being almost incurable if detected in the later stages of development, cancer also…

https://medium.com/technicity/histotripsy-partially-kills-cancer-cells-prevents-metastases-8f04498746fc

Srinivasa Ramanujan, The Greatest Mathematical Autodidact

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/srinivasa-ramanujan-the-greatest-mathematical-autodidact-38445c23f0b3

The Secrets of Tesla’s and Ramanujan’s Knowledge. What do the two eccentric geniuses have in common

https://piggsboson.medium.com/the-secrets-of-teslas-and-ramanujan-s-knowledge-79ac33d5463b

“Negative Capacitance” reduces power consumption in transistors. New phenomenon could save energy in computer chips A negative capacitance transistor consumes 30 % less energy than conventional devices. A capacitor is a device that stores charge. The amount of charge stored is proportional to the voltage applied across its terminals.

https://medium.com/@vinven7/negative-capacitance-reduces-power-consumption-in-transistors-36f07eb80997

Saturday, May 7, 2022

The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

Invisibility cloaks are not just possible, they’re becoming reality. Two types of nanotechnology, metalenses and metamaterials, could soon make Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak a reality. For as long as human beings have been writing about fantasy, myth, and science fiction, the dream of invisibility has always been a top priority. While…

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/invisibility-cloaks-are-not-just-possible-theyre-becoming-reality-6b610b868267

What’s behind every square degree in outer space? Even a tiny sliver of the Universe can reveal the cosmic story of what’s out there and how it came to be the way it is today. The canopy of the night sky is both immense and awe-inspiring.

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/whats-behind-every-square-degree-in-outer-space-58bb42fd3fdf

Intelligence Dimensionality — Humans are not enough to keep up with scientific discovery

https://medium.com/@kimboleek/intelligence-dimensionality-humans-are-not-enough-to-keep-up-with-scientific-discovery-2f45908120bf

WATCH: Bill Gates says COVID is a ‘disease mainly of the elderly’ with ‘low fatality rate’, likens it to the flu "We didn't understand that it's a fairly low fatality rate, and that it's a disease mainly of the elderly, kind of like the flu."

https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-bill-gates-says-covid-is-a-disease-mainly-of-the-elderly-likens-it-to-the-flu

The Darkest Color In The World Looks Cool, But Is It Useful?

https://medium.com/the-technical/the-darkest-color-in-the-world-looks-cool-but-is-it-useful-41d630518c20

NASA REPORTS NEREUS WILL BREAK INTO EARTH’S ORBIT IN DAYS

https://medium.com/writers-blokke/nasa-report-nereus-will-break-into-earths-orbit-in-days-62693224e7af

Thursday, May 5, 2022

What we’ve learned after 32 years of NASA’s Hubble When the Hubble Space Telescope first launched in 1990, there was so much we didn’t know. Here’s how far we’ve come. On April 24, 1990, NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope into Earth’s orbit.

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/what-weve-learned-after-32-years-of-nasa-s-hubble-1d955a4a6010

The Anti-Universe. Universe running backwards in time

https://medium.com/science-junction/the-anti-universe-32e343ed5dad

Safely Cracking Under Pressure. A runway stopping system made out of crushable material has proved to be an important lifesaving measure for pilots and passengers.

https://medium.com/faa/safely-cracking-under-pressure-160b89528681

Are These 10 The Most Intelligent People Ever? Check out their cognitive prowess…

https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/are-these-10-the-most-intelligent-people-ever-3a4ee7d3718e

Science Now Fully Models The Big Bang — No God Is Required

https://tonyberard.medium.com/science-now-fully-models-the-big-bang-no-god-is-required-ae9e61e1e2a6

We’re Uncovering One of AI’s Deepest Mysteries. The black box problem is a secret between machines

https://medium.com/predict/were-uncovering-one-of-ai-s-deepest-mysteries-27b981ea5ab5

Universe may collapse in a 'Big Crunch' sooner then we thought, physicists say

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/universe-may-collapse-in-a-big-crunch-sooner-then-we-thought-physicists-say/ar-AAWWxsj

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Blasting Out Earth’s Location in Hopes of Reaching Aliens Is Controversial—Two Teams of Scientists Are Doing It Anyway

https://singularityhub.com/2022/05/01/blasting-out-earths-location-with-the-hope-of-reaching-aliens-is-a-controversial-idea-two-teams-of-scientists-are-doing-it-anyway/

Scientists Just Cracked One-Way Superconductivity, Thought Impossible for Over 100 Years

https://singularityhub.com/2022/05/02/scientists-just-cracked-one-way-superconductivity-thought-impossible-for-over-100-years/

The Brain Has a Built-in System to Keep Unwanted Memories Out, Study Finds

https://singularityhub.com/2022/05/03/the-brain-has-a-built-in-system-to-keep-unwanted-memories-out-study-finds/

Physicists Just Measured The Heaviest Known Particle With Record-Breaking Precision

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/physicists-just-measured-the-heaviest-known-particle-with-record-breaking-precision/ar-AAWKxfo

On the Conservation of Information and the Second Law of Thermodynamics How can these fundamental laws be consistent? The conservation of quantum information, quantified in term of von Neumann entropy, is a fundamental consequence of the linearity and unitarity of quantum mechanics. As the terms information and entropy are often used interchangeably in several branches of sciences, this may sound very strange to anyone familiar with the second law of thermodynamics, which says that entropy generally increases with time. How can these claims be…

https://aurelien-pelissier.medium.com/on-the-conservation-of-information-and-the-second-law-of-thermodynamics-f22c0645d8ec

No-hiding theorem - Wikipedia

Austria buys JavaScript from Brendan Eich.

https://sebastiancarlos.medium.com/austria-buys-javascript-from-brendan-eich-3d2aa81e823b

Why Graph-modeling Frameworks are the Future of Unsupervised Learning. An iterative graph-modeling methodology for estimating feature importance in unsupervised learning scenarios

https://towardsdatascience.com/why-graph-modeling-frameworks-are-the-future-of-unsupervised-learning-2092b089caff

Ring galaxies finally explained

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ring-galaxies-the-rarest-in-the-universe-finally-explained-ddb4ad6e2d33

Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Why would climate change force investors to assess transition risk and physical risk? - TL Winslow, Pansophist master of STEM and world history

https://www.quora.com/Why-would-climate-change-force-investors-to-assess-transition-risk-and-physical-risk/answer/TL-Winslow

35 Brilliant Science Websites and Tools for Lifelong Learners

https://ali.medium.com/35-brilliant-science-websites-and-tools-for-lifelong-learners-96139defa87d

Star’s Strange Orbit Around Black Hole Proves Einstein Right — Again

https://medium.com/@gatkata82/stars-strange-orbit-around-black-hole-proves-einstein-right-again-2af5639088ba

“Farthest galaxy ever” HD1 is probably not what it seems We’ve fooled ourselves before with galaxies that look just like this one. The evidence we have simply isn’t strong enough. An exciting potential discovery has recently rocked the world of astrophysics.

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/farthest-galaxy-ever-hd1-is-probably-not-what-it-seems-4ed61987c0f2

Another Way of Achieving Nuclear Fusion. Is this the ultimate “magic bullet”?

https://medium.com/@johnwelford15/another-way-of-achieving-nuclear-fusion-85b908a98ad6

Growing Field of Twistronics: Key to Holy Grail of Physics? Surprising discovery brings us one step closer to superconductivity

https://medium.com/predict/growing-field-of-twistronics-key-to-holy-grail-of-physics-74fc0c79b235

Monday, May 2, 2022

On NYT Magazine on AI: Resist the Urge to be Impressed

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/on-nyt-magazine-on-ai-resist-the-urge-to-be-impressed-3d92fd9a0edd

Is It Possible to Accidentally Travel Through Time? How a controversial scientific theory might explain certain paranormal phenomena.

https://austincharvey.medium.com/is-it-possible-to-accidentally-travel-through-time-6020a2e37e49

Intel Lineup Might Shatter The GPU Market An old but one of the leading companies of microprocessors and microcontrollers which has stepped into the world of GPU. Intel has long been recognised as one of the world’s most dominant microprocessor manufacturing enterprises. These companies manufacture high-quality microprocessors in a variety of pricing…

https://medium.com/predict/intel-lineup-might-shatter-the-gpu-market-30ee2794ee3b

Canadian anthropologist says Homo floresiensis species not extinct at all — Where would a “hobbit” hide? In his new book, Gregory Forth claims that a species that has been called a “hobbit” still lives on the Indonesian island of Flores. According to the professor, the legend of Ebu Gogo is actually H. floresiensis.

https://medium.com/@darkenergyarticles/canadian-anthropologist-says-homo-floresiensis-species-not-extinct-at-all-where-would-a-hobbit-7ff34702230f

How to Build an Event Horizon (Really)

https://medium.com/@thisscience1/how-to-build-an-event-horizon-really-c768ba36be24

Sunday, May 1, 2022

30 Things That Happen To Our Bodies As We Grow Older. Our brains shrink, men’s penises shrink, we lose our hair, and much more

https://medium.com/the-knowledge-of-freedom/30-things-that-happen-to-our-bodies-as-we-grow-older-3a94b79ed40e

Experts Believe Information is the 5th Form of Matter. If true, then we need a whole new version of physics to explore it

https://katrinapaulson.medium.com/experts-believe-information-is-the-5th-form-of-matter-c6ca345a8ae

The Reality of Time and Change — Reimagining Physics Part 1

https://medium.com/science-and-philosophy/the-reality-of-time-and-change-reimagining-physics-part-1-1c39053b1bb7

Scientists Haven’t ‘Created’ a Warp Bubble, But They’re a Bit Closer to Testing One

https://extremetech.medium.com/scientists-havent-created-a-warp-bubble-but-they-re-a-bit-closer-to-testing-one-be93dca7b8ab

Does Infinity Exist in Nature? No, no it does not. It's a good thing too. If we somehow had a choice, we wouldn’t want it to.

https://human-person-man.medium.com/does-infinity-exist-in-nature-91b65348fbdb

Do Pistol Shrimps Hold The Key To Nuclear Fusion? Biomimicry of a deadly sea creature could soon provide us with near limitless clean energy. In theory, nuclear fusion is the perfect energy source, simply put hydrogen in and get copious amounts of energy and helium out. There is no vast habitat loss like solar and no horrific carbon emissions like coal or gas. The…

https://medium.com/predict/do-pistol-shrimps-hold-the-key-to-nuclear-fusion-4e0ab66db2b0

Fake News About Cat “Torture” Experiments

https://greenjihad.com/2022/04/30/fake-news-about-cat-torture-experiments/