The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists for their work in pioneering quantum information science. Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger all conducted some of the first experiments with entangled photons, enabling a future for commercial quantum computers.

In a world-first clinical trial, three babies have been born after receiving stem cell treatment for spina bifida. The treatment involves administering a stem cell patch to the fetus’ spine while still developing in the womb, and early results are promising one year on.
Video: https://youtu.be/TGvHRqsopQo

Engineers at Duke University have developed a novel delivery system for cancer treatment and demonstrated its potential against one of the disease’s most troublesome forms. In newly published research in mice with pancreatic cancer, the scientists showed how a radioactive implant could completely eliminate tumors in the majority of the rodents, demonstrating what they say is the most effective treatment ever studied in these pre-clinical models.
Pancreatic cancer is notoriously difficult to diagnose and treat, with tumor cells of this type highly evasive and loaded with mutations that make them resistant to many drugs. It accounts for just 3.2 percent of all cancers, yet is the third leading cause of cancer-related death. One way of tackling it is by deploying chemotherapy to hold the tumor cells in a state that makes them vulnerable to radiation, and then hitting the tumor with a targeted radiation beam.

Engineers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have spent the last seven years building the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, or LSST, camera. The camera is the size of a small car and weighs about three tons, and at five feet across, the lens holds a Guinness World Record. Watch the video to see visit inside the clean room with the camera.

Scientists continue to blow through data transmission records, with the fastest transmission of information between a laser and a single optical chip system now set at 1.8 petabits per second. That's well in excess of the amount of traffic passing across the entire internet each second.
Here's another comparison: the average broadband download speed in the US is 167 megabits per second. You need 1,000 megabits to get to a gigabit, and then 1 million gigabits to get up to 1 petabit.

No matter how you present it, 1.8 petabits is a serious amount of data to transmit in a second.

The supercharged data transfer system is built around a custom-design optical chip, which uses the light from a single infrared laser and splits it into hundreds of frequencies. The frequencies are isolated at fixed distances from each other, like teeth in a comb – hence the name for this setup, which is a frequency comb.

Each 'tooth' on a frequency comb can send its own burst of data, which is how the huge transmission rates are achieved. Using more conventional means, around a thousand lasers would be needed to carry the same number of 1s and 0s.

Bacteria are increasingly developing resistance to our best antibiotics, leaving doctors with fewer and fewer treatment options. In many cases, we’re down to our last-resort drugs, such as those that induce severe side effects within the body.

Drugs given to the whole body can be too much of a shotgun approach, damaging cells that aren’t meant to be targeted. A new study has found that cloaking drugs inside red blood cells could help guide powerful but toxic antibiotics to target bacteria.

Who is the most underrated predator in the animal kingdom?
There is one. A creature that lives near water belongs to the insect order Odonata, has been around for over 3 million years and the only thing that has changed is its size
The Dragonfly.

The Dragonfly has an almost unparalleled Flight system, a holster of adaptations including:

🔹Direct Flight Muscles are attached to the base of the wings which allows it to control each wing separately, effectively able to perform flight techniques like Phased stroking, a Dragon-fly can fly in all 6 Directions including backward! its no wonder they are called acrobats of the Sky.

🔹A Pterostigma provides counter-balance during flight and prevents wing fluttering, while also giving it a boost in Top-flight speeds

🔹3-dimensional Patterns and veins on wings that provide wing Stability during flight.

🔹Near 360-degree vision is made possible by the presence of about 30000+ light receptors as its eyes cover most of its head

🔹It's the most impressive system though is its Mind, integrating its visual and Motor system, helps put all this power into action. Hunting!

Researchers at the University of Oslo are proposing a novel treatment for stroke that involves administering an infusion of a blood protein suspected to protect the brain from damage. Early tests in mice indicate if the treatment is given within hours of a stroke occurring it could improve long-term outcomes.
the hypothesis was that FSAP somewhat protects the brain from the harmful effects of stroke, and maybe it could be turned into a treatment.
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University of Oslo

With striking high-speed video footage, scientists have for the first time detailed how predatory mosquito larvae attack and capture prey in aquatic habitats. Published in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America, this new research sheds light on behavior that has long proven too small and too fast to study, until now. In this video, a Psorophora ciliata larva strikes a prey larva via a sudden neck extension to launch its head away from its body and toward the prey.

Read more here

Video Credit: Annals of the Entomological Society of America (2022). DOI: 10.1093/aesa/saac017

After more than three years circling the Earth, the Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 mission has come to an end following a fiery reentry. The satellite was an important tech demo for the idea of solar sailing, which could eventually propel spacecraft to other stars.

LightSail 2 was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in June 2019, settling into an initial orbit at an altitude of around 720 km (450 miles). At that height, the Earth’s atmosphere is still thick enough to create drag, which would threaten to eventually pull the spacecraft down.
But that’s where the plucky little satellite’s special ability came in. Although it’s only the size of a shoebox, LightSail 2 unfurled a big reflective sheet, called a solar sail, about the size of a boxing ring. The idea is that photons from sunlight strike this sail and generate tiny amounts of thrust, allowing the craft to change its orbit.

And LightSail 2 demonstrated this concept beautifully. In three and a half years, the spacecraft completed around 18,000 orbits and traveled 8 million km (5 million miles), adjusting its orbit continuously to keep itself aloft. But all good things must come to an end, and sometime on November 17, drag finally won the tug-of-war and pulled the spacecraft back to Earth.

Take a look at this: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/blackrock-neurotech-reveals-neuralace-10-000-channel-next-gen-bci-301679826.html

Telegram has launched the ability to buy and sell short recognizable @ usernames for personal accounts, public groups and channels.

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You can find @science channel name at this auction: https://fragment.com/username/science

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Each collectible name can be accessed with its @username on Telegram, or outside Telegram using links such as science.t.me and t.me/science.

For the first time in the history of social media, people have full ownership of their usernames. Long-time Telegram users who have been using short usernames they registered early on can now benefit from the platform's growth by selling their usernames in fair, transparent, fully decentralized auctions.

In Korea, the temperature in winter sometimes drops to -20 degrees Celsius.

Traditional Korean houses have rather thin walls, mostly made of wood.

So how did they get through such cold winters? That's thanks to a very smart and very efficient underfloor heating system.

There are many heating systems also designed to add to cooking or cooking hot water for bathing. The underfloor heating system is typical of Korea. It dates back to prehistoric times, and so it is embedded in Korean folklore and traditions.
Please discover this interesting video describing this floor heating system. Video with English subtitles.

https://www.ganjingworld.com/video/VQOuSRSYjR3OK

New research adds to a small but growing body of study investigating the effects of e-cigarette use on oral health

Smoking is no good for your teeth, that is well-known. But what about vaping? New research from Tufts University suggests using e-cigarettes may not be that much better, finding an association between increased risk for cavities and vaping.

In Finland, the temperature reaches -40 ° C in winter, the trees are covered with so much snow and frost that it seems like a landscape from another planet.

More information. Incredible Photos of Snow-Covered Trees Near Arctic Circle Resemble Alien Planet | The Weather Channel