science

Last week I posted about the magic qualities of quantum systems in Computer Science. Now I bring an example article that makes use of it.

Link to study the article is based on:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440324001080?via%3Dihub#abs0015

tps cool space pictures ; August

"The very slight electric field on Earth may have shaped the evolution of the planet’s atmosphere, keeping our world livable while our neighbors became harsh." - NASA

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• Paleontologists found matching Early Cretaceous dinosaur footprints in Brazil and Cameroon, showing where dinosaurs walked before Africa and South America split.
• The footprints, mostly from three-toed theropods, date back 120 million years and reveal how dinosaurs migrated across the supercontinent Gondwana.
• Geological evidence supports that these areas were connected before the continents drifted apart, forming the South Atlantic Ocean.

In the second half of 2024, a nova explosion in the star system called T Coronae Borealis, or T CrB, will once again be visible to people on Earth. T CrB will appear 1,500 times brighter than usual, but it won’t be as spectacular as the event in 1054.

The mysterious zones have the power to slow down seismic waves by up to 50 per cent, yet experts don’t know what they’re made of or what role they play.

These strange black holes (figuratively speaking) are located within the Earth’s lower mantle – near the core – and are known as ultra-low velocity zones (ULVZs).

When neutron stars dance together, the grand smash finale they experience might create the densest known form of matter known in the Universe. It’s called “quark matter, ” a highly weird combo of liberated quarks and gluons. It’s unclear if the stuff existed in their cores before the end of their dance. However, in the wild aftermath a neutron-star merger, the strange conditions could free quarks and gluons from protons and neutrons. That lets them move around freely in the aftermath. So, researchers want to know how freely they move and what conditions might impede their motion (or flow).

The bacteria behind chlamydia can colonize the gut, and from that hiding place, they may act as a source of repeated infections, new research using miniature intestines suggests.

Chlamydia is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) worldwide. The form of the infection that affects humans is caused by a species of bacteria known as Chlamydia trachomatis.

The disease most often affects the genital region, sometimes causing pain and unusual discharge from the vagina or penis. However, over the years, research in mice and various clinical reports in humans have suggested that C. trachomatis may also be able to infect the human digestive tract. This means that, theoretically, the bacteria could hide in the gut and then cause repeated genital infections, which commonly occur in patients despite treatment with antibiotics.

Yet, until now, scientists haven't been able to test this theory in human cells.

Next, they must formulate a research question and design and conduct an experiment in pursuit of an answer.

Then, they must analyse and interpret the results of the experiment, which may raise yet another research question.

Can a process this complex be automated? Last week, Sakana AI Labs announced the creation of an "AI scientist" – an artificial intelligence system they claim can make scientific discoveries in the area of machine learning in a fully automated way.