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@lemmy.worldhttps://phys.org/news/2024-07-simulates-gravitational-warp.html
Imagine a spaceship driven not by engines, but by compressing the spacetime in front of it. That's the realm of science fiction, right? Well, not entirely. Physicists have been exploring the theoretical possibility of "warp drives" for decades, and a new study published in the Open Journal of Astrophysics takes things a step further—simulating the gravitational waves such a drive might emit if it broke down.
https://www.livescience.com/health/medicine-drugs/injectable-goo-could-fix-joints-without-surgery-early-study-suggests
New research shows that an injectable goo can repair cartilage damage in animals' joints within six months. Scientists are now developing the tech for use in humans.
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-nanowire-brain-network-fly.html
For the first time, a physical neural network has successfully been shown to learn and remember "on the fly," in a way inspired by and similar to how the brain's neurons work.
https://www.sciencealert.com/revolutionary-bionic-hand-fuses-with-womans-bones-muscles-and-nerves
A 50-year-old Swedish woman who lost her hand in a farming accident has been fitted with a cutting-edge prosthesis that has proved transformational.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/27/1082551/gene-treatment-deaf-children-hearing-china/
After gene therapy, Yiyi can hear her mother and dance to the music. But why is it so noisy at night?
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4225909-why-the-pentagons-killer-robots-are-spurring-major-concerns/
As the Defense Department is pushing aggressively to modernize its forces using fully autonomous drones and weapons systems, critics fear the start of a new arms race that could dramatically raise …
https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomer-if-earth-is-average-we-should-find-alien-life-within-60-light-years
In 1960, while preparing for the first meeting on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), legendary astronomer and SETI pioneer Dr.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/24/canadian-speaker-apologizes-ukrainian-nazi/
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-megastructures-planets-habitable-worlds.html
In 1960, Freeman Dyson proposed how advanced civilizations could create megastructures that enclosed their system, allowing them to harness all of their star's energy and multiplying the habitable space they could occupy. In 2015, the astronomical community was intrigued when the star KIC 8462852 (aka Tabby's Star) began to dim inexplicably. While an analysis of the star's light curve in 2018 revealed that the dimming pattern was more characteristic of dust than a solid structure, Tabby's Star focused attention on the concept of megastructures and their associated technosignatures.
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-giant-particle-accelerator-microchips
Researchers at Tsinghua University in China have developed a new lithography process to help boost the Chinese semiconductor industry.