#Scientific Breakthrough

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INCREDIBLE NEWS

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They've finally worked out how to tan Kai Havertz

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just a shower thought, but, out of the billions of people alive and the billions more who have died, somebody out there has probably had a revolutionary, breakthrough scientific discovery and just never shared it with anyone.

like, what if someone discovered the secret to flying cars but didn't realize it and never shared it?

we could have had flying cars by now AAAAAAAA

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As the work of Newton and Einstein exemplifies, scientific breakthroughs are sometimes born of a single scientist's staggering genius, pure and simple.

"The Fabric of the Cosmos" - Brian Greene

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A Glimpse into the Future: Preserving Humanity's DNA in 5D Crystals

Imagine a world where humanity’s DNA is safely stored, ready to be accessed billions of years from now. A team of British scientists from the University of Southampton is making this vision a reality. They have successfully encoded the entire human genome into a remarkable 5D crystal, potentially offering a lifeline for humanity if it ever faces extinction. The Science Behind the Crystal Led by…

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Einstein's famous equation that got us the nuclear weapons that threaten all life on this planet is replaced by a new equation - even more powerful that can defuse the Time Bomb ticking away right now.

You thought you knew everything you needed to know about Time. But that's just the illusion of Time. Just as you and I as individuals only get a finite amount - so it is with our planet.

You probably don't know that Time, like Gravity flies about the universe in waves - Time Waves - proven in this book. Your own proof will depend on how much of this information you can absorb in the shortest amount of time and how fast you can get in motion to save our beloved planet. The only way to stop the current crash into oblivion we are taking is to join the S.W.A.T. Team Today - (Save our World Again Today) All future generations await your decision.

There is a huge #bomb that is #ticking down to the moment when it must go off and it’s right underneath your feet.  This almost unseen Time Bomb is so massive that it will kill every man woman, child, dog, #cat, birds, insects, donkeys, horses, all the fish in the sea, the whales, the dolphins, plankton, trees, plants, flowers and every other thing that lives here on this planet.

Time is ticking away and so I thought I’d better warn everyone.  But there’s nowhere to run.  We have to all take a stand by joining what I call the final SWAT Team.  (Save our World Again Today)  If you choose not to saddle up and fight the good fight - it’s curtains for the human race. 

In this book, you at least get some basic training in SWAT.  You will get the weapons and the sufficient quantity of guts and gumption to get the job done in helping to disarm the Time Bomb.  But, most importantly of all, you will get the knowledge of how to use our only effective weapon - Time.  Time is not on our side, but when you understand how it flies around the universe in waves, you will be able to control it and use it to disarm the bomb.

The world's most famous #genius of all time Albert Einstein once said that "Doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity."

#Einstein has been proven correct in many major things he has predicted.  Let’s not let this prediction of the INSANITY of letting the end of the world come to pass in our generation.  We must do something completely different, in fact, we must do all things completely differently, or the insanity of our present march off the cliff will make us just another spot of dust in the heavens.

It’s ironic also that Einstein’s famous equation of - E-mc2 was the key to the production of the most destructive forces humans have ever unleashed, the nuclear weapons that today threaten the greatest mass extinction in history, made more urgently notable since these weapons are now controlled by psychopathic mass murderers.  (Not an exaggeration)

Just as I was finishing this book, news hit the world that Russia is planning to put a nuclear device like the Death Star in Star Wars, in orbit over our heads that could destroy our entire way of life in seconds.

THUS the need for this new formula because TIME IS TICKING to the final seconds.

I introduce here a new equation that I invented that hopefully will have the effect of countering all of the destructive power of Einstein's equation.  

 T=emc(8)   Or Time is equal to any amount of energy times any amount of mass times the speed of light raised to the power of infinity.

This formula, if applied correctly, will allow anyone to apply a new kind of sanity in which we are all encouraged and even rewarded for doing things differently - and this time, getting different, and even better results.

In order to help in this cause, I decided that the very essence of Time has to be unveiled and simplified so that more and more of us can quickly learn how to use it more effectively in our daily lives.

Time is something we all think we know everything we need to know about and we take Time for granted because until we expire - We say that "Time flies" - It is the thesis of this book that Time moves through the universe in waves.  Someday soon we may have the instrument that will prove this theory of mine.

In reality, #Time is rationed out to each and every one of us as is needed in pursuit of larger goals.  The movement of Time around the universe in this manner is broadcast in High and Low Pressure Time Zones.  High Pressure Time zones are sunny and warm and Low Pressure Time zones are cold and wintry.

Time is ticking towards a terrible conclusion of the end of the Human Race. 

Learn how to join the only #S.W.A.T. Team that can save us all.  Get out and MAKE SOME NOISE!  Now, not only will you know where the #TimeGoes, but also where it comes from. AND how #TimeFlies when you're having #fun

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Stock images and videos >>> any porn site

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My fave part of this is that we now have another reason to wear a mask— not only does it reduce the spread of disease to others but it can help keep YOU from getting sick by keeping your nose warm!

The sardonic, reductionist headline here could be "Scientists finally figured out why you get more colds in winter: bEcAuSe iT's CoLd!"—but the actual science involved here is both interesting, and potentially very relevant to everyday life and especially the immunocompromised:

It turns out the cold air itself damages the immune response occurring in the nose. [...] In fact, reducing the temperature inside the nose by as little as 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) kills nearly 50% of the billions of virus and bacteria-fighting cells in the nostrils, according to the study published Tuesday in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. “Cold air is associated with increased viral infection because you’ve essentially lost half of your immunity just by that small drop in temperature,” said rhinologist Dr. Benjamin Bleier, director of otolaryngology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Want to avoid catching or spreading respiratory viruses like CoVid-19, RSV, influenza, or a common cold? Mask up, please, but also bundle up! Wrap up in a scarf, wear a balaclava, and just generally keep your face warm. There's no single magic solution, but that's not a reason to do nothing. Rather, it's a reason to take several simple precautions that help avoid the spread of disease and protect those around you. (I can't tell you how much "this isn't 100% effective so I shouldn't do it at all" frustrates me.)

Oh, and #knitblr? This is your time to shine.

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For more than 60 years, scientists have pursued one of the toughest physics challenges ever conceived: harnessing nuclear fusion, the power source of the stars, to generate abundant clean energy here on Earth. Today, researchers announced a milestone in this effort. For the first time, a fusion reactor has produced more energy than was used to trigger the reaction.

On December 5, an array of lasers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), part of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, fired 2.05 megajoules of energy at a tiny cylinder holding a pellet of frozen deuterium and tritium, heavier forms of hydrogen. The pellet compressed and generated temperatures and pressures intense enough to cause the hydrogen inside it to fuse. In a tiny blaze lasting less than a billionth of a second, the fusing atomic nuclei released 3.15 megajoules of energy—about 50 percent more than had been used to heat the pellet.

Though the conflagration ended in an instant, its significance will endure. Fusion researchers have long sought to achieve net energy gain, which is called scientific breakeven. “Simply put, this is one of the most impressive scientific feats of the 21st century,” U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said at a Washington, D.C. media briefing.

In reaching scientific breakeven, NIF has shown that it can achieve “ignition”: a state of matter that can readily sustain a fusion reaction. Being able to study the conditions of ignition in detail will be “a game-changer for the entire field of thermonuclear fusion,” says Johan Frenje, an MIT plasma physicist whose laboratory contributed to NIF’s record-breaking run.

The achievement does not mean that fusion is now a viable power source. While NIF’s reaction produced more energy than the reactor used to heat up the atomic nuclei, it didn’t generate more than the reactor’s total energy use. According to Kim Budil, director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the lasers required 300 megajoules of energy to produce about 2 megajoules’ worth of beam energy. “I don’t want to give you the sense that we’re going to plug the NIF into the grid—that’s not how this works,” Budil added. “It’s a fundamental building block.”

Even so, after decades of trying, scientists have taken a major step toward fusion power. “It looks like science fiction, but they did it, and it’s fantastic what they’ve done,” says Ambrogio Fasoli, a fusion physicist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.

SPARKING FUSION IGNITION

Though nuclear fusion and nuclear fission both draw energy from the atom, they operate differently. Today’s nuclear power plants rely on nuclear fission, which releases energy when large, heavy atoms such as uranium break apart due to radioactive decay. In fusion, however, small, light atoms such as hydrogen fuse into bigger ones. In the process, they release a small part of their combined mass as energy.

In laboratories, coaxing hydrogen nuclei to fuse into helium requires creating and confining a “plasma”—an electrically charged gas, where electrons are no longer bound to atomic nuclei—at temperatures several times hotter than inside the sun. Scientists learned decades ago how to unleash this process explosively inside hydrogen bombs, and today’s fusion reactors can make it happen in a controlled way for fleeting instants.

Since the late 1950s and early 1960s, fusion reactors have had the same basic goal: create as hot and dense a plasma as possible, and then confine that material for long enough that the nuclei within it reach ignition. The trouble is, plasma is unruly: It’s electrically charged, which means it both responds to magnetic fields and generates its own as it moves. To support fusion, it has to reach truly staggering temperatures. Yet it’s so diffuse, it easily cools off.

Physicist Riccardo Betti, an expert on laser-driven nuclear fusion at the University of Rochester, likens the challenge of fusion ignition to burning gasoline in an engine. A small amount of gasoline mixes with air and then ignites from a spark. The spark isn’t massive, but it doesn’t have to be: All it has to do is ignite a small fraction of the gasoline-air mixture. If that tiny fraction ignites, the energy it releases is enough to ignite the rest of the fuel.

In terms of energy released, nuclear reactions pack roughly a million times more punch than chemical reactions do—and are vastly harder to get going. Past fusion experiments may have achieved the right temperatures or the right pressures or the right plasma confinement times to reach ignition, but not all those factors at once. “Basically, the spark was generated, but it wasn’t strong enough,” Betti says.

A PELLET OF FUEL

NIF’s method of sparking the nuclear fuel starts with a peppercorn-size pellet that contains a frozen mix of deuterium and tritium, two heavier isotopes of hydrogen. This capsule is placed within a gold cylinder roughly the size of a pencil eraser that’s called a hohlraum, which is then mounted on an arm in the middle of a large, laser-studded chamber.

To trigger fusion, NIF fires 192 lasers all at once at the hohlraum, which angle into it through two holes. The beams then slam into the hohlraum’s inner surface, which causes it to spit out high-energy x-rays that rapidly heat up the outer layers of the capsule, making them burn off and fly outward. The inner part of this capsule rapidly compresses to nearly a hundred times denser than lead—which forces the deuterium and tritium inside to reach the temperatures and pressures needed for fusion.

In 1997, the National Academy of Sciences defined what “ignition” would mean for the facility, which broke ground that same year: when fusion energy released exceeds the energy of the lasers.The facility opened in 2009, and reaching this threshold ended up taking more than a decade. In August 2021, NIF reported its best-ever experimental run up to that point: 1.32 megajoules of released fusion energy for 1.92 megajoules of inputted laser energy.

The 2021 run signaled that ignition could be achieved within the NIF reactor. To finally cross the threshold, NIF researchers made a few minor tweaks, which included operating at slightly higher laser energies. “Any small changes, if you do them right, will have significant changes on the outcome,” Frenje says.

THE DREAM OF A FUSION POWER PLANT

For all of NIF’s success, commercializing this style of fusion reactor wouldn’t be easy. Betti, the University of Rochester physicist, says that such a reactor would need to generate 50 to 100 times more energy than its lasers emit to cover its own energy use and put power into the grid. It’d also have to vaporize 10 capsules a second, every second, for long periods of time. Right now, fuel capsules are extremely expensive to make, and they rely on tritium, a short-lived radioactive isotope of hydrogen that future reactors would have to make on-site.

But most of these challenges aren’t unique to NIF, and the world’s many fusion labs and companies are chipping away at them. Last year the Joint European Torus (JET), an experimental reactor in Culham, England, set a record for the most fusion energy ever released during a single experimental run. Construction on JET’s successor—a huge international experiment known as ITER—is underway in France. And private companies in the United States and United Kingdom have built next-generation superconducting magnets, which could help create smaller, more powerful kinds of reactors.

It’s hard to say when, or even if, this work will yield a new energy future. But fusion researchers see the technology as an incredible tool for humankind whenever it’s ready—whether that’s 20, 50, or 100 years from now.

“When people say fusion is very complex, it’s true, but when people say that fusion is too complex, it’s not,” Fasoli says. “We know how to do complex things … Going to the moon is not simple. Achieving this result in fusion, it’s not simple. And we’ve demonstrated we can do it.”

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Eyyo I heard we're making breakthroughs in cancer treatment and Alzheimer's whattt???

Is this God's way of saying congrats you've clawed your way out of covid, have a cookie and a forehead kiss?

Like we've been trying to get to the peak that often follows a valley but it's a completely vertical cliff side so we're just kinda

One small step towards recovering. And medical breakthroughs I wasn't sure we would reach in the entirety of human existence. Glad to be wrong. Thanks, God!

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Chromosomes in species with larger genomes orient their chromosomes so that centromeres and telomeres are on opposite poles of the nucleus, a conformation known as the Rabl configuration, after the Austrian scientist Carl Rabl, who first proposed such an arrangement as early as 1885 (Figure 2.4A). However, chromosomes in plants with smaller genomes, such as Arabidopsis, do not adopt a Rabl configuration, but instead seem to cluster their telomeres around the nucleolus in a rosette-like formation (Figure 2.4B).

"Plant Physiology and Development" int'l 6e - Taiz, L., Zeiger, E., Møller, I.M., Murphy, A.

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Love this

in my personal opinion gortash is sort of the middle ground between gale and astarion. like he has the same type of ambition as gale, but i do think is motivated by different reasons (also, unlike, gortash i think gale is wayyyyy more likely/capable of taking responsibility for the consequences). while he has the same underlying motivation as astarion (abuse making him want to have as much power to prevent that from ever happening again), but astarion is way more incompetent and less resourceful (i say this with love) than gortash. and here i introduce, inelegantly, the gortash sliding scale:

in the sense that I think a lot of ppl have different proportions for the gale/astarion ratio. personally it's 50/50 for me

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Hey there! I read both Reprogrammed and Decoded and was blown away. Unfortunately (sorta), my odd little brain had one little question that was burning from the end of Reprogrammed till the end of the story: what about the Wild Kratts Kids? How did they react to Chris's disappearance/return? I know if I were 8 and my teacher (i guess thats an okay metaphor? maybe?) randomly disappeared for 3 months and came back 10 pounds lighter with dozens of new scars and white hair in their early twenties, I'd be a little torn up/curious. How would Chris feel about showing up on screen in front of a bunch of kids in his state? Would he...wear a...hat...or something...? I don't know, just thoughts lol

They never told the public that Chris was missing (Didn't wanna scare the kids or give the Villains the knowledge that they were vulnerable)

And being out in the most rural parts of the world, it's not uncommon for them to go months without any sort of public appearance. For now, Martin is handling any sort of press alone until Chris is ready to be back in the public eye.

But of course they still run into a wild kratts kid every once and a while.

He's still working on his alibi.....

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The Vanishing Y Chromosome: Is the Future of Humanity at Risk?

After the extensive debate about the true gender of Imane Khelif, a woman born with X chromosomes, who later developed a Y chromosome, scientists have claimed that the existence of the renowned Y chromosome is in jeopardy. The Y chromosome, crucial for determining male sex, is reportedly facing a significant threat to its existence. Over the past 300 million years, this vital chromosome has…

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