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An Iranian cosmologist has recently suggested another way we could look for extraterrestrial life in our universe. Could it be, he wonders in a new paper (which appears now on the preprint site arXiv), that these advanced alien civilizations are using Dyson spheres around primordial black holes as a way to gather energy? And, if so, how could we look for the signs? His work makes some big assumptions that may not be justified, but this specific type of cosmology has always been a little far out—and it’s where the biggest insights can sometimes lie.

Shant Baghram is a physicist at the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran. His new paper, which is an unusual solo work in a long career of collaboration with colleagues and graduate students, is a quick-and-dirty introduction to ideas like SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), the Drake equation, and the Dyson sphere—all hallmarks of those who theorize about alien civilizations.

Many of the technologies that will define the future of space warfare are already in development. The problem facing the U.S. is that China is spearheading most of it.

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Researchers have developed a new, fast, and rewritable method for DNA computing that promises smaller, more powerful computers.

This method mimics the sequential and simultaneous gene expression in living organisms and incorporates programmable DNA circuits with logic gates. The improved process places DNA on a solid glass surface, enhancing efficiency and reducing the need for manual transfers, culminating in a 90-minute reaction time in a single tube.

Advancements in DNA-Based Computation.

Now we have proof that people drank psychotropic compounds in a carefully prepared concoction, to connect with the deity called Bes.

Cyanobacteria use an AM radio-like principle to coordinate cell division with circadian rhythms, encoding information through pulse amplitude modulation.

Cyanobacteria, an ancient group of photosynthetic bacteria, have been discovered to regulate their genes using the same physics principle used in AM radio transmission.

New research published in Current Biology has found that cyanobacteria use variations in the amplitude (strength) of a pulse to convey information in single cells. The finding sheds light on how biological rhythms work together to regulate cellular processes.

Precious few garments have been made of spider silk. In 2012, a cape and shawl made from natural spider silk were displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where visitors learned that the garments were the result of a unique project that spanned eight years and involved the harvesting of silk from 1.2 million spiders. In 2019, a rather less painstaking project utilized fibroin, the protein found in natural spider silk, to fabricate an outerwear jacket, North Face’s Moon Parka. Starting with fibroin meant that silk could be sourced from genetically modified bacteria, which are easier to work with than spiders. Nonetheless, the Moon Parka, which takes its name from the word moonshot, was never meant to be mass produced. It was available by lottery for just a limited time.

Museum pieces and moonshots are hardly synonymous with “mass production.” Is there another way to generate spider silk–based textiles, one that has more commercial potential? Yes, according to Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, which uses transgenic silkworms to produce lines of recombinant spider silk. The company plans to produce up to 10 metric tons of spider silk in 2025. Production of actual spider silk lines on this scale would allow textile manufacturers to test the silk on their own equipment.

It’s not just textiles that may benefit. Recombinant spider silk’s tensile strength, weight, and durability make it attractive for myriad applications, including tissue scaffolds and sutures in the biomedical field, as well as textiles and ballistic materials.

Researchers developed CrystaLLM, an AI model predicting crystal structures without traditional physics-based simulations. By analyzing millions of existing structures, it predicts realistic arrangements of atoms, even for unfamiliar materials.

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