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Sep 7, 2023

Astronomers detect new type of brightest cosmic explosion

Posted by in category: space

The newly found explosion is so powerful that it produced brightness comparable to hundreds of billions of Suns.

The vast and continuously expanding nature of our universe implies that there is a high probability that our current knowledge and documentation of it represent only a small fraction of the whole picture. And there are millions of new cosmic events and objects waiting to be discovered.

Scientists have now discovered an unusual type of star explosion that is exceptionally luminous and outshines the majority of known supernovae.

Sep 7, 2023

Model of human embryo developed without sperm, eggs or a womb

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

The researchers claim it’s the first “complete” embryo model for simulating all the important components that form in the early embryo.

The science of baby-making is clear. A sperm cell (which contains genetic material from the father) and an egg cell (which contains genetic material from the mother) must fuse in order for a human embryo to develop.

However, science and technology are constantly improving in the fields of embryology and stem cell research.

Sep 7, 2023

MIT’s underwater sensor offers low-power long-range signals

Posted by in categories: climatology, sustainability

The team plans to build battery-free underwater networks.

Deep Sea exploration is about to get more accessible. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed and demonstrated a technology that can transmit underwater signals spanning kilometers with a relatively low reader transmit power.

The researchers are calling their tech Van Atta Acoustic Backscatter (VAB), which can be used to map the pulse of the ocean. A submerged network of underwater sensors can continuously measure ocean vital signs like the temperature, pressure, and dissolved carbon dioxide to create more accurate climate change models and monitor the efficacy of carbon capture technologies, explained the researchers in their study.

Sep 7, 2023

Finite-depth scaling of infinite quantum circuits for quantum critical points

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Year 2022 Infinite quantum computer :3.


The scaling of the entanglement entropy at a quantum critical point allows us to extract universal properties of the state, e.g., the central charge of a conformal field theory. With the rapid improvement of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices, these quantum computers present themselves as a powerful tool to study critical many-body systems. We use finite-depth quantum circuits suitable for NISQ devices as a variational ansatz to represent ground states of critical, infinite systems. We find universal finite-depth scaling relations for these circuits and verify them numerically at two different critical points, i.e., the critical Ising model with an additional symmetry-preserving term and the critical XXZ model.

Sep 7, 2023

Rapidly swapping photons make a high-quality quantum gate

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Experiment with two superconducting cavities could lead to better quantum computers.

Sep 7, 2023

Researchers develop a protocol to extend the life of quantum coherence

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, computing, quantum physics

For years, researchers have tried various ways to coax quantum bits—or qubits, the basic building blocks of quantum computers—to remain in their quantum state for ever-longer times, a key step in creating devices like quantum sensors, gyroscopes, and memories.

A team of physicists from MIT have taken an important step forward in that quest, and to do it, they borrowed a concept from an unlikely source—noise-cancelling headphones.

Led by Ju Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor in Nuclear Engineering and professor of materials science and engineering, and Paola Cappellaro, the Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Research Laboratory of Electronics, and a professor of physics, the team described a method to achieve a 20-fold increase in the coherence times for nuclear-spin qubits.

Sep 7, 2023

Meteosat weather satellite captures Earth in stunning detail

Posted by in category: satellites

Today’s Image of the Day from European Space Agency features the first image of the full Earth disc from the Meteosat Third Generation Imager.

This is the first of a new generation of satellites that is expected to revolutionize weather forecasting by enabling more precise monitoring of our changing atmosphere, land and oceans.

Simonetta Cheli, ESA’s Director of Earth Observation Programmes, said that the image is a great example of what European cooperation in space can achieve.

Sep 7, 2023

Google to require disclosure for political ads that use AI to alter imagery or sounds

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Google will soon require that political ads using artificial intelligence be accompanied by a prominent disclosure if imagery or sounds have been synthetically altered.

Sep 7, 2023

New cell type discovered in thymus

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The discovery surprised scientists when researchers in Israel recently consulted them for their expertise on specialized cells called M cells.

M cells act as gatekeepers for the immune system in organs like the intestine and lungs. They play a crucial role in delivering specialized antigen cells during the development of the body’s immune system.

In the mouse study on the thymic epithelium, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel wanted to determine the function of M cells in the gut and airways.

Sep 7, 2023

Bubble of galaxies spanning 1 billion light-years could be a fossil of the Big Bang

Posted by in category: cosmology

The bubble itself is composed of previously identified structures that themselves have been considered some of the universe’s largest arrangements of matter. This includes several superclusters, or groups of galaxy clusters, that each contain 10 clusters and span up to 200 million light-years. At the heart of Ho’oleilana lies the Bootes supercluster and the Bootes void, which is a 330 million-light-year-wide space of nothingness.

Related: Galaxy shapes can help identify wrinkles in space caused by the Big Bang

“We were not looking for it. It is so huge that it spills to the edges of the sector of the sky that we were analyzing,” Brent Tully, study leader and an astronomer at the University of Hawaii, said in a statement. “As an enhancement in the density of galaxies, it is a much stronger feature than expected. The very large diameter of one billion light years is beyond theoretical expectations.”