Australian Science Association

24/12/2021

The new vaccine ameliorated certain signs of aging in mice.

05/08/2021

The 'Do It Again' mini album, which is out now. This mini album is a precursor to bigger things from Röyksopp. The inevitable end of the campaign will bring ...

05/06/2021

03/03/2021

Malaria kills one child every 30 seconds, about 3000 children every day. Over one million people die from malaria each year, mostly children under five years of age"

Consistently ranked as one of the leading causes of death around the world, malaria doesn’t have an effective vaccine yet. But researchers have invented a promising new blueprint for one — with properties akin to the novel RNA-based vaccine for COVID-19.

02/03/2021

01/03/2021

26/02/2021

Mechanosensing stem-cell niche promotes lymphocyte production.

06/02/2021

Its manipulates atoms on your desktop to create processing power

It weighs a hefty 121 pounds.

29/01/2021

Because humans are capable of conscious, memory-based learning, we can evolve further and faster than any other species, changing not just across generations but within our own lifetimes.

This constant drive toward learning and improvement makes getting better innately enjoyable and getting better fast exhilarating. Though most people think that they are striving to get the things (toys, bigger houses, money, status, etc.) that will make them happy, for most people those things don’t supply anywhere near the long-term satisfaction that getting better at something does. Once we get the things we are striving for, we rarely remain satisfied with them. The things are just the bait. Chasing after them forces us to evolve, and it is the evolution and not the rewards themselves that matters to us and to those around us. This means that for most people success is struggling and evolving as effectively as possible, i.e., learning rapidly about oneself and one’s environment, and then changing to improve.

It is natural that it should be this way because of the law of diminishing returns. Consider what acquiring money is like. People who earn so much that they derive little or no marginal gains from it will experience negative consequences, as with any other form of excess, like gluttony. If they are intellectually healthy, they will begin seeking something new or seeking new depths in something old—and they will get stronger in the process. As Freud put it, “Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”

The work doesn’t necessarily have to be a job, though I believe it’s generally better if it is a job. It can be any kind of long-term challenge that leads to personal improvement. As you might have guessed, I believe that the need to have meaningful work is connected to man’s innate desire to improve. And relationships are the natural connections to others that make us relevant to each other and to society more broadly.

16/01/2021

It has the processing power of half a human brain

The world's fastest supercomputer, Fugaku is tasked with challenges such as modeling climate change and helping to manage carbon emissions.

28/12/2020

Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, is a noted inventor and futurist who has some big ideas about the future of humans.

23/12/2020

08/12/2020

Photons explore quantum maze faster than possible for any classical computer.

24/11/2020

01/11/2020

The process involves bathing the bricks in a hydrochloric acid v***r, which seeps into the pores and reacts with the iron oxide that gives bricks their red color.

03/10/2020

A team of University of Arkansas physicists has successfully developed a circuit capable of capturing graphene's thermal motion and converting it into an electrical current.

29/08/2020

Scientists studying rare meteorites thought to have formed in the hot inner solar system found that the ancient rocks contain more hydrogen than previously thought – and hydrogen, along with oxygen, is one of the two essential ingredients of water.

If the Earth formed from similar materials, then more than enough hydrogen would have been available to combine with oxygen to create all of the world’s water – many times more, in fact.

https://7news.com.au/technology/space/ancient-meteorites-suggest-earths-oceans-didnt-come-from-space-but-were-already-here-c-1275319

New research challenges the idea that most of Earth’s water was delivered here by meteorites and comets.

29/08/2020

Chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest primate relatives, live for only 10–15 years in the wild once they have reached maturity. After the human evolutionary lineage split from theirs, our ancestors’ life expectancy doubled over the next 5 million years."

Medical News Today: Immune aging and how to combat it.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/immune-aging-and-how-to-combat-it

In this Special Feature, we cover how the immune system changes as we age. We also ask whether or not lifestyle factors can slow or reverse these changes.

29/08/2020

The Guardian: What is genomic sequencing and how is it being used against Covid-19 in Australia?.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/aug/18/what-is-genomic-sequencing-and-how-is-it-being-used-against-covid-19-in-australia

Genetic detective work is allowing scientists to map coronavirus clusters and identify ‘superspreaders’ as they work to quell a second outbreak in Victoria

29/08/2020

Gizmodo Australia: The Best Illusions Of 2019 Will Have You Further Questioning The Reality You Live In.
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/08/the-best-illusions-of-the-year-will-have-you-further-questioning-the-reality-you-live-in/

It’s hard not to look at the news every day and wonder if your life has somehow forked into an alternate reality or dimension than the one you were familiar with. Not helping the matter are the recently revealed best illusions of the year, including Frank Force’s winning Dual Axis...

29/08/2020

The Northwestern University study led by Daniel Peters, published in GeoHealth, found that in the US alone, $US17 billion ($A24 billion) could be saved in social and health costs associated with carbon and particulate emissions from petrol and diesel cars – even if just one in four cars in the US national fleet transition to electric drivetrain."

The Driven: Electric cars can save billions in climate change, air pollution damage.
https://thedriven.io/2020/08/20/electric-cars-can-save-billions-in-climate-change-air-pollution-damage/

New study finds that billions of dollars can be saved and hundreds of thousands of premature deaths can be avoided by a widespread shift to electric vehicles.

29/08/2020

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/01/23/ask-ethan-is-the-universe-itself-alive/

Could we simply be a tiny, insignificant and replaceable cog in a much larger, more intelligent living being than we could imagine?

29/08/2020

SpaceX’s first Starship SN5 150m hop test flight …: https://youtu.be/TYAi2JJItgY

Elon Musk’s SpaceX on August 4th made first ever Starship’s 150m hop test flight. The vehicle was quite stable. For current Starship’s SN4/SN5 prototypes the...

10/05/2020

Turyshev’s plan would take advantage of this effect by sending a telescope on a 60 billion-mile journey to the sun’s focal region to photograph a habitable, Earth-like exoplanet that is up to 100 light years away"

Our galaxy is potentially full of habitable planets. A team of scientists plans to take a picture of one by turning the sun into a giant camera lens.

30/04/2020

360° panorama photo from Out of this World by Andrew Bodrov. NASA's Mars Exploration Program (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) So...

26/04/2020

It is really hard to photograph a meteor. Even though some 25 million of them hurtle toward Earth each day, most of them are too small to track. Photographer Prasenjeet Yadav managed to get one anyway, entirely by accident: https://trib.al/eiMPiNE

21/04/2020

Human neurons uniquely contain their own computational units—and that's why they're so powerful.

The neurons in our cortex, the outermost “crust” of our brain, seem to have uniquely evolved to sustain complex computations in their input cables.

17/04/2020

Scientists Debut System to Translate Thoughts Directly Into Text

"We are not there yet, but we think this could be the basis of a speech prosthesis."

16/04/2020

Australia’s first ‘virtual hospital’ opens for coronavirus patients

Coronavirus patients who otherwise would have needed a hospital bed will now be allowed to go home with a high-tech device to monitor their vital signs.

06/04/2020

As humans, we can perceive less than a ten-trillionth of all light waves. "Our experience of reality," says neuroscientist David Eagleman, "is constrained by our biology." He wants to change that. His research into our brain processes has led him to create new interfaces -- such as a sensory vest --...

06/04/2020

Trevor and Bill Gates discuss coronavirus and what can be done to get the world back to normal.

05/04/2020

For the first time, scientists found a complete protein molecule in a meteorite.

"This is the first report of a protein from any extra-terrestrial source."

04/04/2020

Prehistoric fins reveal human hand origins.

Scientists have found what they call the evolutionary origins of the human hand inside the stout fins of a fish fossil about 380 million years old.

04/04/2020

Doctors think the loss of smell maybe the first symptom of coronavirus.

This might be the first whiff of trouble.

04/04/2020

The coronavirus mutates more slowly than the flu — which means a vaccine will likely be effective long-term.

A glimmer of hope on the coronavirus front: Experts who have been tracking the virus’ spread have concluded that it mutates at a slower rate than other respiratory viruses like the flu.

04/04/2020

Earliest known skull of Homo erectus unearthed by Australian-led team

Fossil shows the first of our ancestors existed up to 200,000 years earlier than previously thought, researchers say

04/04/2020

They trained algorithms to transfer the brain patterns into sentences in real-time and with word error rates as low as 3%.

Scientists have taken a step forward in their ability to decode what a person is saying just by looking at their brainwaves when they speak.