Breaching the horizons: Universal spreading laws confirmed
eurekalert.org – By extending the computational horizons from one day to the unprecedented time scales, the IBS researchers were able to confirm that a cloud of quantum particles continue to spread even when particle to particle interactions originally deemed to be the activator of the spreading, exert almost no strength. Their findings are published online in Jan. 30, 2019, in Physical Review Letters.
Source: Ihor Vakulchyk, Mikhail V. Fistul, Sergej Flach. Wave Packet Spreading with Disordered Nonlinear Discrete-Time Quantum Walks. Physical Review Letters, 2019.
Bird brain: Why a cockatoo trick in Australia has scientists enthralled
nbcnews.com – A few years ago, a Sydney scientist noticed a sulfur-crested cockatoo opening his trash bin.
Source: Barbara C. Klump, et al. Innovation and geographic spread of a complex foraging culture in an urban parrot. Science, 2021.
We just got our best-ever look at the inside of Mars
technologyreview.com – NASA’s InSight lander has shown the planet’s interior is more complex than previously thought.
Source: Amir Khan, et al. Upper mantle structure of Mars from InSight seismic data. Science, 2021.
The “most significant contribution AI has made to science”: Google’s AlphaFold will release the structure of every protein known to science
zmescience.com – AI is done playing -- it's time to start dealing with real-world problems.
Source: John Jumper, et al. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold. Nature, 2021.
We just got our best-ever look at the inside of Mars
technologyreview.com – NASA’s InSight lander has shown the planet’s interior is more complex than previously thought.
Source: Simon C. Stähler, et al. Seismic detection of the martian core. Science, 2021.
Event Horizon Telescope Spots Swirling Jets of Blackhole in Nearby Galaxy
techtimes.com – Through the Event Horizon Telescope, astronomers have spotted the gushing jets from a massive black hole.
Source: Michael Janssen, et al. Event Horizon Telescope observations of the jet launching and collimation in Centaurus A. Nature Astronomy, 2021.
Predictions of Most Human Protein Structures Made Freely Available
the-scientist.com – The AlphaFold program from AI firm DeepMind has amassed a huge database of protein structures from humans and model organisms.
Source: Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool, et al. Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome. Nature, 2021.
InSight Lander Makes Best-Yet Maps of Martian Depths
sciam.com – The NASA mission used seismic waves from marsquakes to perform a core-to-crust survey of the planet’s subsurface
Source: Brigitte Knapmeyer-Endrun, et al. Thickness and structure of the martian crust from InSight seismic data. Science, 2021.
Take a 3-D Journey Inside a Shark’s Guts
nytimes.com – This is as close to a shark’s intestines as you’ll probably ever hope to get.
Source: Samantha C. Leigh, Adam P. Summers, Sarah L. Hoffmann, Donovan P. German. Shark spiral intestines may operate as Tesla valves. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021.
This ‘flexible’ processor is made out of plastic instead of silicon
digitaltrends.com – Researchers have unveiled the PlasticARM processor, which is a flexible CPU built on plastic that could pioneer a new era in computing.
Source: John Biggs, et al. A natively flexible 32-bit Arm microprocessor. Nature, 2021.
Just 1.5 to 7 per cent of the modern human genome is uniquely ours
newscientist.com – Just 1.5 to 7 per cent of the modern human genome is uniquely ours – meaning it emerged after we split from other ancient human groups including the Neanderthals and Denisovans
Source: Nathan K. Schaefer, Beth Shapiro, Richard E. Green. An ancestral recombination graph of human, Neanderthal, and Denisovan genomes. Science Advances, 2021.
