Researchers can drastically extend the service life of zinc batteries

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-22T23:23:10+00:00

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-22T11:36:20+00:00

In a recent interview, Andrea Rossi, the inventor of the E-Cat (Energy Catalyzer), discussed a pivotal new partnership that he has formed, which is set to significantly advance the development and distribution of E-Cat technology. Rossi explained that following a successful demonstration at the Latina racetrack, interest from major entities surged, leading to the selection of a partner that shares his vision and readiness to invest substantially in the project. This partnership is expected to facilitate the establishment of a large manufacturing facility and a global distribution network, aimed at meeting the increasing demand for E-Cat products.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-22T11:36:08+00:00

In a recent interview, Andrea Rossi, the inventor of the E-Cat (Energy Catalyzer), discussed a pivotal new partnership that he has formed, which is set to significantly advance the development and distribution of E-Cat technology. Rossi explained that following a successful demonstration at the Latina racetrack, interest from major entities surged, leading to the selection of a partner that shares his vision and readiness to invest substantially in the project. This partnership is expected to facilitate the establishment of a large manufacturing facility and a global distribution network, aimed at meeting the increasing demand for E-Cat products.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-22T11:32:01+00:00

Dripping UAP - What Are They?

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-22T01:24:53+00:00

Zavaritsky volcano identified as source of 1831 climate changing eruption and blue sun reports

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-21T21:07:11+00:00

Researchers can drastically extend the service life of zinc batteries about study Range-extending Zinc-air battery for electric vehicle *The research team uses a unique material for this purpose: a porous organic polymer called TpBD-2F. This material forms a stable, ultra-thin, and highly ordered film on the zinc anode, allowing zinc ions to flow efficiently through nano-channels while keeping water away from the anode. The zincophilic and hydrophobic TpBD-2F provides numerous 1D fluorinated nanochannels, which facilitate the hopping/transfer of Zn2+ and repel H2O infiltration, thus regulating Zn2+ flux and inhibiting interfacial corrosion. The resulting TpBD-2F protective film enabled stable plating/stripping in symmetric cells for over 1200 h at 2 mA cm−2. Furthermore, assembled full cells (Zn-ion capacitors) deliver an ultra-long cycling life of over 100 000 cycles at a current density of 5 A g−1, outperforming nearly all reported porous crystalline materials. *

comparison zinc anode batteries with another types The lithium, sodium and magnesium batteries are all great bateries of high energy density, but they also need expensive electrolytes and cathode material as a source of oxygen - nickel and/or problematic cobalt based. Zinc batteries may only require humidity and oxygen from air, which also eliminates price and lotta balast matter transported with batteries. See also:

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-21T18:18:05+00:00

US to pay nearly $116M to settle lawsuits over rampant sexual abuse at California women's prison.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-20T21:30:46+00:00

A new paper from Hagelstein et al.:

Models for nuclear fusion in the solid state This article presents a theoretical framework for enhancing nuclear fusion rates in solid-state environments under near-ambient conditions.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-20T21:22:12+00:00

Infecting Generative AI With Viruses The experiments validated that a modified JPEG containing the EICAR signature could be uploaded, manipulated, and potentially executed within LLM virtual workspaces.

Yet more AI generated nonsense masquerading as factual text book. This time on malaria, published by Springer.

Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law Suchir Balaji helped gather and organize the enormous amounts of internet data used to train the startup’s ChatGPT chatbot.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-20T20:40:15+00:00

There is an unending stream of propaganda concerning quantum computing and its supposed problem solving capabilities that either seem to or seem not to exist at the same time.

Yep: providing that classical computers already run at their physical limits (given by quantum mechanics and its uncertainty principles) then the application of quantum computers wouldn't (and couldn't) bring any substantial improvement of speed, because their computational power (i.e. product of precision and speed) would remain equal to this one of classical computers. Quantum computers just happen to be very fast, but also noisy and for achieving the same level of determinism which classical computers already provide we would be required to repeat their computations multiple-times and average the result, which would indeed wipe-out their speed advantage.

There can be still algorithms which would benefit from fast but noisy calculations which are typically neural network applications, the outputs of which tend to be noisy by their very nature.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-20T10:17:04+00:00

MAiD and marginalized people: Coroner’s reports shed light on assisted death in Ontario

Use of medically assisted suicide in Canada has surged in recent years More than 10,000 people used in in 2021, an increase of 31%. Canada already looks to be expanding its euthanasia age to 12+ this next year. Whereas counselling or aiding suicide is still felony according to Canadian laws: Everyone is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 14 years who, whether suicide ensues or not I'd sue them immediately. See also:

See also:

Canada man turns to euthanasia to avoid being homeless in cost of living crisis The "euthanasia law" was originally intended for the terminally ill only. Now it encourages the death of those "too poor to continue living with dignity". Meanwhile investor parasites hoarded houses in Toronto so that now housing isn't affordable anymore.
Leaked memo shows Trudeau warned immigration would cause housing crisis but the Problem Isn't a Housing Shortage, It's the Concentration of Ownership by the Wealthy
Canada releases a kid's book pushing assisted suicide.
Completion of Medical Certificates of Death after an Assisted Death: An Environmental Scan of Practices
MAiD: Why the Canada Government Wants You to Kill Yourself
Old people should embrace ‘mass suicide’, says Yale professor

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-20T09:27:51+00:00

Dark matter particles are bonanza for theorists. During last thirty years of dark matter searches many probable constituents of dark matter were proposed, which differs in fifty(!) orders of magnitude: scalar field, quintessence, scalar and pseudoscalar or phantom, mirror, asymmetric or shadow matter, dark fluid, pseudoHiggs and heavy Higgs, axions, inflatons, dilatons, gravitinos, majorons, dark photons, tachyons, WIMPs, SIMPs, heavy photons, fat strings, anapoles, unparticles, vector bosons, sterile or right-handed neutrinos, fotinos, charginos, gluinos, chameleon particles, technibaryons, symmetrons, dark baryons, gravitinos, s-quarks and s-leptons, WIMPs, SIMPs, MACHOs, RAMBOs, DAEMONs, Planck and Bateman's particles, primordial and micro-black holes, jupiters.... and I probably missed many others...

In dense aether model substantial portion of dark matter really exist in form of primordial black holes stabilized with extradimensions. These micro-black holes just have appearance of very common atom nuclei. Being stripped of free electrons, they appear invisible for optical telescope, they can still be detected as a galactic halo with these X-ray ones. Which also brings the classical Plasma Universe model into a question: the fancy hyperdimensional models converge into a very trivial and ancient ones. Why these models aren't considered first? Well, because they don't promise so much jobs and profit for physicists involved into them: the socioeconomical analogy with Ivermectin based cancer and covid remedia arises here.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-20T08:28:00+00:00

Dense aether model is based on stochastic steady state universe model in which the dark matter condenses into a normal matter which gradually evaporates back into dark matter which condenses somewhere else like giant hyperdimensional fluctuations of supercritical fluid or clouds on summer sky. This model has dual i.e. opposite problem than primordial black hole model of dark matter: it requires mechanism for sufficiently fast evaporation of black holes, otherwise the eternal universe would be already full of invisible black holes sooner or later. Apparently, sufficiently large and massive system of condensed particles can evade such a destiny by transforming itself into a gravastar of dark matter star, which is quite radiative and known as a quasar by contemporary astronomy. This is because in vicinity of another black holes the existing ones tend to mutually merge and dissolve, which is macroscopic analogy of evaporation of atom nuclei inside of large stars by nuclear fusion.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-20T08:23:08+00:00

Do Fungi Have Thousands of Sexes? similarly to qudits, fungi are sexually non-binary like ordinary qubits...

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-20T07:55:15+00:00

Black holes' quantum effect may resolve the dark matter problem about study Gravitational waves from burdened primordial black holes dark matter

Some time ago, primordial black holes were a promising candidate for dark matter. Primordial black holes should also contain a singularity, but should otherwise be much more variable in terms of their mass. Theoretically, they could weigh 1 gram or 100,000 Suns. They're entirely hypothetical, as dark matter hypotheses tend to be. If they exist, they should come from a very young universe, where they were formed by the collapse of also entirely hypothetical Fermi balls, probably less lascivious than they sound at first glance. They should be macroscopic objects that, if they existed, were born during an early phase transition by spontaneous symmetry breaking. Another possibility is that primordial black holes emerged in the chaos of cosmic inflation.

But there's a catch. Black holes should evaporate with Hawking radiation, the black hole thermal radiation calculated by Stephen Hawking when he applied quantum field theory to the curved spacetime around the black hole's event horizon. Hawking radiation is remarkable in that its temperature increases as the mass of the black hole decreases. As a result, small black holes should evaporate faster until they disappear in a flash of radiation. It follows that primordial black holes lighter than about 10¹⁷ grams should not exist in the universe because they would have already evaporated. This created a huge problem for the hypothesis of dark matter from primordial black holes. Because they would have to be very massive, and then gravitational lensing studies would detect them. But primordial black holes have not yet appeared in them, which has chilled physicists' hopes that the solution to dark matter is these black holes from the beginning of the universe. As the search continues (primarily because of string theorists motivations), optimism fades.

The essence of the memory burden effect is that a load of information carried by a system stabilizes it. This universal effect is especially prominent in systems with a high capacity of information storage, such as black holes and other objects with maximal microstate degeneracy, the entities universally referred to as “saturons.” This effect explains, in terms of an explicit microscopic mechanism, why, at the early stages of Hawking’s decay, the information stored in a black hole cannot be released together with radiation. After then, the internally maintained information backreacts and creates resistance against the decay of a black hole. This is the effect of the memory burden phenomenon in a black hole.

Loc Ngo suggests that the recently described quantum memory burden effect could be involved in a very clever way. If the ideas about this phenomenon are correct, then it could be that when a black hole is vaporized to half its original mass by Hawking radiation, it suddenly stabilizes. Now we are facing the situation that the introduction of the quantum theory into black holes model leads both into speeding-up their evaporation, both into its suppression at the same moment. It's reminiscent of the "I don't want to give up my favorite disproven theory, so I'll make up some crazy thing to make it work" approach, but so be it. In the already rather depressing search for dark matter, every straw is useful. See also:

A Microscopic Model of Holography: Survival by the Burden of Memory Among the degenerate micro-states the ones with heavier loaded memories survive longer than those that store emptier patterns. Thus, a state gets stabilized by the burden of its own memory. From time to time the information pattern gets off-loaded from one holographic state into another but cannot escape the system. During this process the pattern becomes highly entangled and scrambled. This phenomenon is universal in systems with enhanced memory storage capacity, such as black holes or critical neural networks.
Memory Burden Effect in Black Holes and Solitons: Implications for PBH The memory burden effect suppresses a further decay of a black hole, the latest, after it has emitted about half of its initial mass. As a consequence, the light primordial black holes (PBHs), that previously were assumed to be fully evaporated, are expected to be present as viable dark matter candidates.
The evaporation of charged black holes Evaporation of a large charged black holes corrects the semiclassical calculation, which gives completely wrong predictions for almost the entire evaporation history. This may also render the charge as a hyperdimensional "memory burden effect" of sort.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-20T07:44:18+00:00

UNSW quantum engineers created a “Schrödinger’s cat” inside a silicon chip. about study Schrödinger cat states of a nuclear spin qudit in silicon (preprint PDF)

Antimony is a heavy atom with a massive nuclear spin and therefore a large magnetic dipole. This spin can take on a total of eight values (so-called qudits)), which fundamentally changes the behavior of the system compared to the usual two spin states (i.e. qubits). The superposition of antimony spin is much "juicier," which has significant implications if such qubits are used in the design of a quantum computer. This is because today's classic qubits have two spin states and are very vulnerable because of this. The USNW Sydney antimony cat has eight spin states, giving it seven lives.

As Yu euphorically points out, their cat, which they placed in a silicon quantum chip, actually has seven lives. One mistake in such a system is like a cat getting into a fight outside. It comes back torn, but still very much alive. The drawback is, it may be more difficult to decide, which exact state such a cat actually is in, because it's behaving more like analogous signal rather than binary digital one. See also:

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-20T07:34:35+00:00

Why the Future of AI & Computers Will Be Analog Human brain and neural circuits operate more like quantum computers with high number of qudits (given by number of calcium ions mediated by their synapses) rather than pure analog computers. In the early days of computing, a few experimental Soviet computers were built with balanced ternary instead of binary, the most famous being the Setun, built by Nikolay Brusentsov and Sergei Sobolev. The notation has a number of computational advantages over traditional binary and ternary. Particularly, the plus–minus consistency cuts down the carry rate in multi-digit multiplication, and the rounding–truncation equivalence cuts down the carry rate in rounding on fractions. The one-digit multiplication table has no carries in balanced ternary, and the addition table has only two symmetric carries instead of three.

Because balanced ternary provides a uniform self-contained representation for integers, the distinction between signed and unsigned numerals no longer needs to be made; thereby eliminating the need to duplicate operator sets into signed and unsigned varieties, as most CPU architectures and many programming languages currently do.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-20T06:53:59+00:00

Rice scientists theoretically demonstrate particles other than bosons and fermions about study Particle exchange statistics beyond fermions and bosons, published in Nature Jan. 8, that mathematically demonstrates the potential existence of paraparticles that have long been thought impossible.

A concrete quantum theory of such particles, known as paraparticles, was formulated in 1953 and extensively studied by the high energy physics community. However, by the 1970s, mathematical studies seemed to show that so-called paraparticles were actually just bosons or fermions in disguise. The one exception was the existence of anyons, an exotic type of particle that exists only in two dimensions.

However, the mathematical theories of the 1970s and beyond were based on assumptions that are not always true in physical systems. Using a solution to the Yang-Baxter equation, an equation useful for describing the interchange of particles, along with group theory and other mathematical tools, Hazzard and Wang set to work to show that paraparticles could theoretically exist and be fully compatible with the known constraints of physics.

The second quantization approach was studied already by deBroglie before his death in the 50th of the last century and he decided that also common photons may be actually a paraparticles, which alternate between fermion and a - more common - boson states. And neutrinos - which occur mostly in fermion state - can also oscillate periodically into "undetectable" tachyonic boson state with negative energy. Neutrinos have some properties in common with paraparticle stuffs: for instance, neutrinos are nearly massless and therefore nearly scale invariant. They couple very weakly to ordinary matter at low energies, and the effect of the coupling increases as the energy increases. In dense aether model the dark matter particles are mostly unparticles (anyon/anapole paraparticles of vacuum), that oscillate less or more randomly with compare to neutrinos. See also:

Physicists discover that 'impossible' particles could actually be real Every fundamental particle in the universe fits into one of two groups called fermions and bosons, but now it seems there could be other particles out there that break this simple classification and were once thought to be impossible
The Emergence Of Paraparticles And Implications For Quantum Technology
Quantum Physics Just Got Even Stranger: Meet the Mysterious Paraparticles
Professor proposes theory of unparticle physics
Correspondence between the first- and second-quantized theories of paraparticles

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-20T02:22:33+00:00

UNSW quantum engineers created a “Schrödinger’s cat” inside a silicon chip. about study Schrödinger cat states of a nuclear spin qudit in silicon (preprint PDF)

Antimony is a heavy atom with a massive nuclear spin and therefore a large magnetic dipole. This spin can take on a total of eight values (so-called qudits)), which fundamentally changes the behavior of the system compared to the usual two spin states (i.e. qubits). The superposition of antimony spin is much "juicier," which has significant implications if such qubits are used in the design of a quantum computer. This is because today's classic qubits have two spin states and are very vulnerable because of this. The USNW Sydney antimony cat has eight spin states, giving it seven lives.

As Yu euphorically points out, their cat, which they placed in a silicon quantum chip, actually has seven lives. One mistake in such a system is like a cat getting into a fight outside. It comes back torn, but still very much alive. The drawback is, it may be more difficult to decide, which exact state such a cat actually is in, because it's behaving more like analogous signal rather than binary digital one. See also:

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-19T22:48:40+00:00

PizzaHut Tried To Outsmart The WRONG Country

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-17T15:56:19+00:00

Do wildfires drive record leap in global level of climate-heating CO2? The Mauna Loa observations, known as the Keeling curve, began in 1958 and are the longest running direct measurements of CO2. The CO2 level at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii jumped by 3.6 parts per million (ppm) to 427ppm, which also set a record in 2024. A record rise would probably have occurred even without El Niño though, the scientists said 1, 2, 3, 4.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-16T11:25:13+00:00

Behavioral and Health Outcomes of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination: A Negative Efficiency In Case-Control Study

The study observed a higher reported incidence of COVID-19 infection among vaccinated individuals during the pandemic period Infections positively corelated with number of vaccine does. A higher percentage of participants who contracted COVID-19 had received at least one dose of the vaccine Odds of contracting COVID-19 increased with the number of vaccine doses: One to two doses, OR: 1.63, (p = 0.020) Three to four doses, OR: 2.04, (p = 0.001) Five to seven doses, OR: 2.21, (p = 0.033). This paradoxical finding may be influenced by various factors, including immune response mechanisms, increasing T suppressor (regulatory cells) antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), original antigenic sin, behavioral changes, exposure risk. See also:

Dr. John Campbell about Negative efficacy of Covid-19 m-RNA vaccines in Japan

"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth."

-- Albert Einstein

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-15T05:27:30+00:00

The experimental motivation/confirmation for the above explanation follows from experiments consisting of shotting of deuterons into a surface of molten lithium, during which the huge evolution of heat and stream of deuterons is generated - i.e. the classical fusion apparently runs there... What makes these experiments spectacular isn't just the fact, that the accelerating voltage bellow 4 kV is able to initiate the cold fusion in high yield, because the calculations show, that due to halo character of deuterium nuclei the activation energy of deuterium fusion (~ 2 MeV) can be effectively lowered to few hundreds kVolts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

This is indeed spectacular by itself - but what is really fascinating there is the observation, that the fusion runs only in very narrow range of temperature few dozen degrees above melting point of lithium (which would indeed make the practical utilization of such reaction a bit problematic). Which is really something: we can control the nuclear reaction releasing 20 MeV just be temperature changes in few milielectronvolt regime. Who would think of that?!

Under such a situation is not already difficult to realize, what's going on: the surface of molten lithium is composed of lattice of lithium semicrystalline phase of atoms arranged by surface tension (a similar effect responsible for water surface anomalies studied by Dr. Gerald Pollack from Washington University), which enables the linear collisions of lithium atoms under impact of deuterons, which are followed by lattice Mossbauer ("Astroblaster") effect and momentum amplification. Once this lattice gets destroyed by heating or by contamination of surface by lithium deuteride crust, then this mechanism cannot apply furthermore and the whole cold fusion reaction stops.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-14T21:17:21+00:00

Florian Metzler, Camden Hunt, Peter L Hagelstein and Nicola Galvanetto: Known mechanisms that increase nuclear fusion rates in the solid state (preprint, PDF)

The authors of the paper say there are three separate mechanisms for cold fusion. Each on its own is too small an effect, but all 3 together could just make it work. Cascading multiple such mechanisms could lead to an overall enhancement of 40 orders of magnitude or more. Take it all together, they say, and these effects can enhance the fusion rate in materials enough for it to produce net energy. They also outline ways to test these individual mechanisms to learn more about them, most importantly by using specific materials that have controlled amounts of traces of other elements in them.

The first mechanism in the atomic range. Remember that the problem with nuclear fusion is the electric repulsion between the nuclei. Now imagine you could put a thin slice of negative electric charge between them, then the nuclei wouldn’t notice each other as they get closer. Something similar could happen in solid-state lattice, near defects, where the electron wave-functions become focused and form a sort of shield between the deuterium nuclei. In the paper they write that this can enhance the fusion rate by a whopping 25 orders of magnitude.
The second mechanism they discuss is nuclear resonance between several of the nuclei that you want to fuse. This can be triggered for example with the pulsed lasers that I mentioned earlier. They say that the reason this works is that it causes a deformation of the nuclei that effectively lowers the energy you need to make them approach. Unfortunately, creating this resonance eats up energy similar to what would be released during the fusion. They conjecture, however, that similar resonances could exist at lower energy and estimate that this could lead to an “enhancement of 7 orders of magnitude" of fusion probability.
The third mechanism they discuss in the paper is that the presence of the larger nuclei in the material facilitates the fusion of the smaller nuclei by aiding a quantum tunneling process. This superficially makes sense because we know that nuclei can aid quantum processes that are otherwise impossible. For example, an electron can normally not just emit a photon. However, put the electron in the vicinity of an atomic nuclei, and that process can happen thanks to momentum exchange with the nucleus. For cold fusion they say something similar takes place. The small nuclei that you want to fuse can temporarily borrow energy from the surrounding nuclei, fuse, and then give that energy back. They estimate that this could lead to “an increase [of fusion rates] upwards of 30 orders of magnitude”.

Actually the speed of cold fusion has to be increased only by some 8 orders of magnitude (from range of 1.44 MeV for pair of free protons to range of eV) for being able to run. This target thus isn't so unattainable. See for instance What Happens if You Focus a 5W Laser With a Giant Magnifying Glass? Most of us know, we can not heat objects with focusing of sunlight to the temperature higher than this one of Sun surface. But how it applies to monochromatic laser instead of black body radiation governed with Planck law? The thermodynamics of collisions within metal lattices is similar: the thermodynamic temperature and energy of transition can not be easily applied for them, once these collisions become low-dimensional and coherent.

Here I'm explaining that hot fusion runs on random collisions coming from all possible directions in an equal way. But head-2-head collisions of atoms inside of metal lattices are collinear - which is from statistical perspective of hot fusion as low probable arrangement as the probability that collision of two atoms at the room temperature overcomes Coulomb barrier.

Go figure, how these two extremely low probabilities can cancel out mutually... See also:

Freak waves are a mechanical analogy of laser light not just in their negative thermodynamic time arrow and temperature. They also arise in similar mechanism to lasing, as they drain energy from their environment instead of scattering it into an outside. So that the rogue waves may serve as a water surface analogy of various overunity devices.. The cold fusion therefore may run like solid state phonon laser on coherent collisions within metal lattices.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-14T20:45:56+00:00

Study: negative body image among teens is a global issue Waterloo research finds 55 per cent of teens feel dissfatisfied with their appearance

Availability of social networks nad multimedia on phones enforces and mutual comparison (this is also how the Facebook has started). Once the drugs like Ozempic will become more available we could expect a new wave of interest about "healthy looking" bodies. I guess "no body shame" propaganda failed here shamelessly... See also:

Is Being Fat A Choice? Fit Women vs Fat Women : Fat positivity has ruined a generation..

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-14T11:33:27+00:00

In dense aether wave model the dark matter remains composed of many constituents in similar way like the vorticity of water around islands. From less or more scalar Brownian noise (cold dark matter) over magnetic turbulence of vacuum (warm dark matter) to distinct vortices (self-propagating neutrinos aka hot dark matter, which are analogy of Falaco solitons at the water surface). Whereas cold dark matter tends to form localized gravitational shadows on the connection lines of massive objects (galactic filaments, Allais effect during eclipses), the warm dark matter is less localized and it can spread on its own. The core of Sun is behaving like directional magnetar emanating wide jets of neutrinos and scalar waves across its poles, which also alternate polarity during solar cycles. This is because neutrinos and scalar waves interact with magnetic fields strongly, they're focused with sunspots and deflected with magnetosphere of Sun.

Dense aether model also covers theory according to which scalar waves preferably interact with Dirac fermions within superconductors and topological insulators, which provides the way how they can be detected. In this regard it may be significant that neural membranes propagate charges at distance in similar way like superconductors, therefore scalar waves are presumed to interact with psychic of humans (lunatics) and animals (breeding cycles). Which gives rational core to astrological ideas according which the constellations of planets may affect human psychic, induce wars and collapse of markets - which indeed also follow environmental stress during climatic changes.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-14T11:16:34+00:00

I though "it wasn't a choice". I was told "you were born that way". Going back and forth ..seems like a choice to me

Usually it's both, people with gender dysphoria usually have some developmental or hormonal predispositions or they get handicaped in some other way. But many these handicaps tend to disappear with age - after then the transition becomes an obstacle rather than psychosocial help/solution. The problem is the transitioning is primarily great business for medical industry, which is thus motivated on creation artificial demand. See also:

Giorgia Meloni: The Perfect Consumer The globalist WEF aganda follows Machiavelist rule "divide and conquer" by breaking traditional communities and social units including traditional families. There is an apparent tendency to rise children under state supervision outside of families, which would transfer cultural traditions and intersubjective experience to children, thus making them more easily manipulable by globalist interests. The progressivist children are supposed to have no traditions and cultural past - I mean other than official one - only bright future of bioandroid servants worshiping the deep state. The eugenic and dystopian Lebensborn concepts of old Nazi thus never disappeared - they only changed their name.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-14T04:21:39+00:00

A Once-A-Century ‘Superflare’ From The Sun Is Long Overdue, Scientists Say about study Sun-like stars produce superflares roughly once per century A survey of more than 56,000 sun-like stars reveals that “superflares” that could play havoc with electronics on Earth may happen every 100 to 200 years and the last big one to hit us was in 1859. Using data from NASA’s retired Kepler space telescope, Dr. Vasilyev’s team searched for stars with temperatures, sizes and brightness patterns similar to those of the sun. Out of 56,450 sun-like stars, they found that about one in 20 produced a superflare. The rate at which a superflare occurred, approximately once every 100 years, is at least 30 times as great as in previous measurements — or higher.

Maybe it's overdue, maybe it's not. The climatic change can be tightly connected with solar activity (compare the Maunder minimum) and the same effect responsible for weakening of geomagnetic field could also weaken solar magnetic field. My impression is that Carrington event was a reaction of Sun to the end of little ice age at the first half of 19.century, when the solar activity was also unusually low. Think of of superheating of fluid inside of microwave. The risk of sudden splash increases when the fluid gets quiet for a while, not when it's boiling less or more regularly. The global warming should be connected with period of increased solar activity, therefore the risk of sudden splash of solar plasma gets lower.

Therefore the "overdue" may be actually indicia of deeper connection of global warming and processes in the Sun - just not so straightforward as opponents of anthropogenic warming theory would like to see it. That is to say, the global warming at the Earth and another planets of solar system isn't direct consequence of increased solar activity, both phenomena merely share common origin instead. Mainstream science is good in revelation of such a type of connections neither, because its reductionist formal models primarily look after first order approximations, i.e. the linear regression. And when there isn't such a direct correlation, then science tends to reject it and ignore as a statistical noise for a quite while.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-13T22:20:03+00:00

Patients who've had virus ravaging China describe symptoms HMPV, which some doctors describe as 'the most important virus you've never heard of', has been blamed for a viral outbreak in China that is reportedly overwhelming hospitals in the country's northern provinces. Beijing has downplayed footage of overcrowded waiting rooms and wards posted on social media, saying respiratory infections are 'less severe' and 'smaller in scale' compared to last year.

Human Metapneumovirus: Common yet Underdiagnosed (article from 2016)
Dr. John Campbell: New virus from China?

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-13T21:16:06+00:00

The distance between the Sun and Earth makes war more or less likely, and there's a neurochemical reason why Alexander Chizhevsky was one of the most unconventional thinkers of the 20th century. He believed, and demonstrated through research, that the Sun's solar cycles influenced the psychology of people and shaped history. Stalin put him in the Gulag for his ideas...

Can we find some astrological cycles behind it? The solar system barycenter may affect distribution of dark matter around Sun, which would also affect psychic of humans. Data collected by an Earth-based Homestake detectors over a period of 20 years suggest, that the neutrino flow from the Sun varies from time to time rather than remaining constant. Moreover, the flux seems to follow a pattern that runs counter to the rise and fall in the number of sunspots visible on the sun's surface. This time variations of the neutrino flux coincide with the well-known 11-year cycle of solar activity, which further coincides with the orbital period of Jupiter planet. The neutrino flux is high when solar activity is low and declines to near-zero values as the number of sunspots rises to a peak. See also:

Our entire Solar System is changing rapidly, but nobody is talking about it

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-13T21:02:09+00:00

Eleven Dazzling Celestial Events to See in 2025, From a Total Lunar Eclipse to Rare Planetary Alignments ..Even if the planets did all align in a perfectly straight line, it would have negligible effects on the earth. Fictional and pseudo-science authors like to claim that a planetary alignment would mean that all of the gravitational fields of the planets add together to make something massive that interferes with life on earth. In truth, the gravitational pulls of the planets on the earth are so weak that they have no significant effect on earth life....

Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus, and Saturn in a planetary alignment on January 21, 2025, as seen from the Northern Hemisphere.

Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars in a planetary alignment on February 28, 2025 , as seen from New York City.

According to Charvatova-Landscheit theory the solar plasma tends to rotate not only around center of Sun, but also around barycenter of solar system, the location of which is modulated with mutual position of heavy planets and Sun. The Coriolis force which results from this asymmetric torroid rotation leads into formation of magnetic field of solar plasma which occasionally switches its position and orientation.

The most apparent evidence for this theory follows from eleven-years long period of solar activity, which coincides with orbital period of heaviest Jupiter planet. But another, more complex cycles are indeed visible there too, like for example centennial Gleissberg cycle, which is driven by mutual positions of Jupiter, Neptune and Saturn planets, which are driven by 2:5 orbital resonance.

This theory is thus so straightforward and simple, that it raises question, why climatologists didn't consider it before many years already. The apparent answer is in cronyism of mainstream science, which looks after grants and subsidizes from carbon tax - which every astrophysical theory of global warming would indeed ruin from ground. I.e. essentially the same motivation like ignorance of cheap generics on behalf of mandatory vaccination against Covid or pushing hot fusion into account of cold fusion etc. etc. Examples are many and they all go into account of human civilization as a whole. See also:

Planetary Alignment: What Is It? When Is the Next Planetary Alignment? When do the planets in our solar system all line up?
Comparison of solar activity and planetary torque in the frequency domain. New paper argues current lull in solar activity is consistent with a Gleissberg Cycle minimum The spectra display significant peaks with very similar periodicities: the 88 yr Gleissberg and the 208 yr de Vries cycles are the most prominent, but periodicities around 104 yr, 150 yr, and 506 yr are also seen. Even tiny planet like the Earth has its own one year resonance visible in it. The co-orbital period of Jupiter planet is clearly visible on periodicity of tidal forces and length of day at Earth, but there are also another periodicities in its frequency spectrum.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-13T18:56:24+00:00

Switzerland’s most renowned trans person no longer wants to be a woman In mid-2024, the Swiss Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry called for a revision of the new treatment guidelines for children and adolescents who suffer from gender dysphoria. Claims about the benefits or risks of gender transitions often lack sufficient scientific evidence. This research gap became evident three years ago when the UK Department of Health commissioned the review, which aimed to assess the clinical benefits of puberty blockers using data from existing studies. Of 525 papers, only nine met the criteria for the evaluation. The American short film Detrans young adults describing how they were misguided and found liberation through detransitioning but does not offer opposing viewpoints.

I'd guess there is higher rate of detransition from women than from men in the higher age, because men's physiognomy copes better with higher age. The gender dysphoria is often a matter of hormonal dysbalance during puberty, in the later age it usually disappears spontaneously.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-13T14:20:22+00:00

Study: negative body image among teens is a global issue Waterloo research finds 55 per cent of teens feel dissfatisfied with their appearance

Availability of social networks nad multimedia on phones enforces and mutual comparison (this is also how the Facebook has started). Once the drugs like Ozempic will become more available we could expect a new wave of interest about "healthy looking" bodies. I guess "no body shame" propaganda failed here shamelessly... See also:

Is Being Fat A Choice? Fit Women vs Fat Women : Fat positivity has ruined a generation..

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-13T13:42:15+00:00

Slime Mold Grows Network Just Like Tokyo Rail System The slime mold has no central brain or indeed any awareness of the overall problem it is trying to solve, but manages to produce a structure with similar properties to the real rail network.

Most probable explanation will be, both least intelligent individuals both dumbest collectives of intelligent individuals just follow principle of least action principle as their least common denominator. See also:

How neurons exploit fractal geometry to optimize their network connectivity

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-13T13:35:48+00:00

Scientology village spared of Hollywood fires as blue color reflects the infrared beams the most

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-13T13:24:40+00:00

Stop. You're hurting my brain. Ha..

The shadow projection of regular rotation of 3D rod into 2D plane looks remarkably more chaotic than the motion of original rod due the loss of information. From perspective of low-dimensional creatures every high-dimensional intelligent activity looks completely chaotic and random, indistinguishable from random noise. For our silly pets the tasks like C++ programming looks appear completely clueless activity according to principle "similia similibus observantur" (the observers tend to perceive reality similar to their very own). For instance for smart programmers aka Stephen Wolfram the universe looks like computational machine instead. Which partially explains why so many smart people believe that the Universe can be intelligent too.

But the people who are even bit smarter shouldn't fall into trap of the "similia similibus observantur" fallacy.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-13T13:04:51+00:00

AWT and GRB090510 photon controversy The gamma ray photons just utilize dumb principle of least action when traveling across multiple tiny gravitational lenses of vacuum noise. However this low-dimensional behavior gradually becomes emergent and high-dimensional, when only gamma ray photons which succeed in it are allowed to be seen across vast cosmic distances. Such a photons gradually become "intelligent" by forming a swarm with its most powerful/energetic leaders at its center and they learn to avoid obstacles in advance within a primitive model of cosmologic evolution.

According to dense aether model intelligent creatures like us can perceive vast areas of universe because their genomes actually managed to travelled across them during process of their evolution. Just not like the gamma ray photons travelling along straight line but along surface of planets undergoing frequent environmental changes, like tidal waves. We are capable to cross large barriers of space-time and time arrow just because we already collectively managed to cross them during our evolution. Dumber organisms perceive their Universe adequately smaller.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-13T12:48:48+00:00

AI is hitting the data wall just as the hype around it reaches the stratosphere: Artificial intelligence, specifically the large language models that power it, is a voracious consumer of data. But that data is finite and it is running out. Companies have mined everything in their efforts to train ever more powerful AIs: YouTube video transcripts and subtitles, public Facebook and Instagram posts, copyrighted books and news articles — sometimes without permission, sometimes with licensing deals. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the chatbot that helped mainstream AI, has already been trained on the entire public internet, roughly 300 billion words including all of Wikipedia and Reddit. At some point, there will be nothing left.

Researchers call this “hitting the data wall.” And they say it’s likely to happen as soon as 2026. That makes creating more AI training data a billion-dollar question — one that an emerging cohort of startups are looking for new ways to answer. One possibility: creating artificial data. That’s five-year-old startup Gretel’s approach to AI’s data problem. It makes what’s known as “synthetic data” — AI-generated data that closely mimics factual information, but isn’t actually real.

But synthetic data has its limits. It can exaggerate biases in an original dataset and fail to include outliers, rare exceptions that you’d only see in real data. That could make AI’s tendency to hallucinate even worse. Or models trained on fake data could simply fail to produce anything new. Golshan calls this a “death spiral,” but it’s more widely known as a “model collapse.” He requires new customers to provide Gretel with a chunk of real, high-quality data to avoid it. “Junk safe data is still junk data,” Golshan told Forbes.

I guess another problem of A.I. is the censorship of public LLM's which is steadily creeping and recursivelly polluting their datasets.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-13T12:41:10+00:00

Scaling of AI training runs will slow down after GPT-5: Recent reports suggest that OpenAI’s highly anticipated GPT-5 model, codenamed “Orion,” may not be delivering the significant performance leap expected. According to sources within the company, the improvement in quality from GPT-4 to Orion is considerably smaller than the leap between GPT-3 and GPT-4.Scaling GPUs will be slowed down by regulations on lands, energy production, and build time.

Current large data centers consume around 100 MW of power, while a single nuclear power plant generates 1GW. The largest seems to consume 150 MW. An A100 GPU uses 250W, and around 1kW with overheard. B200 GPUs, uses ~1kW without overhead. Thus a 1MW data center can support maximum 1k to 2k GPUs. GPT-4 used something like 15k to 25k GPUs to train, thus around 15 to 25MW. Large data centers are around 10-100 MW. This is likely one of the reason why top AI labs are mostly only using ~ GPT-4 level of FLOPS to train new models. GPT-5 will mark the end of the fast scaling of training runs. A 10-fold increase in the number of GPUs above GPT-5 would require a 1 to 2.5 GW data center, which doesn’t exist and would take years to build, OR would require decentralized training using several data centers.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-13T11:19:32+00:00

The Fallacy of Sabine Hossenfelder: 1, 2 Sabine's view on Science is quite simple— there is a lot of BS research that is funded unnecessarily and people mostly rely on the quantity of papers and the number of citations that a person has rather than a few extraordinary works. And when she means that science or Physics is halted or has not made any progress, she simply means that we haven't had any major breakthroughs. She single-handedly knocks down the pseudoscience surrounding physics. What's the problem with that?

IMO the main problem of Hossenfelder is her boundless opportunism: she worshiped string theory ideas like extradimensions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 in times, where other people (Smolin, Woit) already openly opposed it - now she belongs between most convinced string theory deniers.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-13T11:18:45+00:00

What if we're living in a brain cell of another creature? Sabine Hossenfelder: I Believe The Universe Might Be Able To Think.

This notion has already multiple cultural references 1, 2, 3 because people just like these ideas and find them inspiring: Is there life inside black holes?

IMO it's merely an illustration of holographic AdS/CFT correspondence: emergent hyperdimensional structures look similar each other when being observed from low-dimensinal intrinsic (microscopic) and extrinsic (macroscopic) perspectives. Lie exceptional gauge groups used in highdimensional physics (like the heterotic stringy theories and Garrett Lisi model) are all of emergent character. Their nested dodecahedral structures replicate in geometry of dark matter at various scales.For instance there is striking similarity of many stellar nebulae with atomic orbitals, which would point to their common emergent and hyperdimensional origin. But does it mean, that these nebulae can form more complex structures, like molecules? Apparently there is no observational evidence for it: one sign of structural complexity is it comes with complex and hyperdimensional neighborhood and environment: isolated examples can not serve as an functional example of it. See also:

The case for why our Universe may be a giant neural network Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns. The dark matter filaments are at least four-dimensional and as such they may appear smarter and more intelligent than they really are from strictly 3D perspective. They're slimy in similar way, like filaments of slime mold which undergo Rayleigh-Plateau instability and which spontaneously drag their blobs into areas of the best energetic stability and advantage.
What if we're living in a brain cell of another creature? Sabine Hossenfelder: I Believe The Universe Might Be Able To Think.
Brian Cox - Is The Whole Universe Inside a Black Hole? There is no good reason for it, but the geometry of emergent systems (like spreading of ripples at the water surface) behaves similarly to geometry of event horizons. We would perceive the FLRW metric everywhere in the Universe even if it would be fully flat and free of black holes (the Schwarzschild metric of which is inverted to FLRW one).
Pilot wave gravity theory could explain Titius-Bode law of solar system Dark matter shares many aspects with quantum waves but its low density around common celestial bodies doesn't allow to manifest itself with true wave mechanics. It's also the matter of geometric distinction between homologic and analogic structures: For instance the filaments of dark matter between galaxies share equations with fluid mechanics of plasma - but it still doesn't mean they're formed with plasma currents - it's just that dark matter interactions are similar to charge interactions at particular distances.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-12T22:54:06+00:00

Freak waves are a mechanical analogy of laser light not just in their negative thermodynamic time arrow and temperature. They also arise in similar mechanism to lasing, as they drain energy from their environment instead of scattering it into an outside. So that the rogue waves may serve as a water surface analogy of various overunity devices.. The cold fusion therefore may run like solid state phonon laser on coherent collisions within metal lattices.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-12T16:19:37+00:00

Researchers stunned As A.I Improves itself Towards Superintelligence about Microsoft research paper Small LLMs Can Master Math Reasoning with Self-Evolved Deep Thinking

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-12T10:43:44+00:00

Sixth-grader makes lionfish breakthrough The finding is all thanks to a curious sixth-grader who conducted a science project where she slowly diluted the salt water in tanks containing lionfish. research shows that lionfish can survive in fresh water that's one-seventh the salinity of the Atlantic Ocean, meaning the invasive fish could potentially spread into rivers.

Researcher disputes account of sixth-grader's "scientific breakthrough" "My lionfish research is going viral...but my name has been intentionally left out of the stories, replaced by the name of the 12-year-old daughter of my former supervisor's best friend," he wrote in a Facebook post dated July 21. "Anything I say will come off as an attempt to steal a little girl's thunder, but it's unethical for her and her father to continue to claim the discovery of lionfish in estuaries as her own."

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-12T10:41:36+00:00

Sixth-grader makes lionfish breakthrough The finding is all thanks to a curious sixth-grader who conducted a science project where she slowly diluted the salt water in tanks containing lionfish. research shows that lionfish can survive in fresh water that's one-seventh the salinity of the Atlantic Ocean, meaning the invasive fish could potentially spread into rivers.

Researcher disputes account of sixth-grader's "scientific breakthrough" "My lionfish research is going viral...but my name has been intentionally left out of the stories, replaced by the name of the 12-year-old daughter of my former supervisor's best friend," he wrote in a Facebook post dated July 21. "Anything I say will come off as an attempt to steal a little girl's thunder, but it's unethical for her and her father to continue to claim the discovery of lionfish in estuaries as her own."

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-12T07:14:17+00:00

AI Could Be Making Scientists Less Creative A new study examining 68 million scientific papers shows using AI boosts researchers' careers, but narrows the questions they ask.

The less inquisitiveness the better career in science, got it. See also:

How to fool Chat GPT with non-linear thinking, Why ChatGPT Struggles With Watch Faces Apparently, large language models strongly enforce collectivist consensus view, which is what makes them ideologically progressivist technology. By making these models larger this bias gets promoted instead of suppressed and it will make ipso-facto LLMs dumber.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-12T07:10:23+00:00

Digital Dementia? AI Shows Surprising Signs of Cognitive Decline about study Age against the machine—susceptibility of large language models to cognitive impairment: cross sectional analysis.

Research shows that top AI models demonstrate cognitive impairments similar to early dementia symptoms when evaluated with the MoCA test. All chatbots showed poor performance in visuospatial skills and executive tasks, such as the trail making task (connecting encircled numbers and letters in ascending order) and the clock drawing test (drawing a clock face showing a specific time). Gemini models failed at the delayed recall task (remembering a five word sequence). These findings underscore the limitations of AI in clinical applications, particularly in tasks requiring visual and executive skills. See also:

Almost all leading AI chatbots show signs of cognitive decline
AI Cognitive Decline ChatGPT 4o achieved the highest score on the MoCA test (26 out of 30), followed by ChatGPT 4 and Claude (25 out of 30), with Gemini 1.0 scoring lowest (16 out of 30).

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-11T21:59:56+00:00

Is a stormy sun making this summer extra hot?

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-11T17:16:59+00:00

Snow vs no snow on 2600W solar panels - how many watts? 20 vs 70 watts... It just seems for me, that solar panels run at 2% of their nominal capacity during winter.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-11T13:15:40+00:00

New Study Confirms that Cancer Cells Ferment Glutamine In 1955, an American doctor named Harry Eagle made a surprising discovery about cancer cells growing in a dish: They required ridiculous amounts of glutamine. Without this chemical, the cells would stop growing and eventually die, despite having all the other known requirements for life.

Cancer cells heavily rely on glutamine as a critical nutrient for survival and proliferation, while immune cells require glutamine for activation and proliferation during immune reactions. This metabolic competition creates a dynamic tug-of-war between cancer and immune cells. All clinical studies of cancer should be targeting glucose and glutamine while the patient is in nutritional ketosis. See also:

Targeting glutamine metabolism as a therapeutic strategy for cancer In fact, glutamine is believed to be such an important part of tumor progression that some researchers have studied it as a potential cancer treatment.
Exploiting the Achilles’ heel of cancer: disrupting glutamine metabolism for effective cancer treatment
Dietary glutamine supplementation suppresses epigenetically-activated oncogenic pathways to inhibit melanoma tumor growth

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-11T09:43:33+00:00

Ivermectin: The Unexpected Cancer Fighter? A Game-Changer in Cancer Treatment

This video dives into the latest research revealing how ivermectin, widely known for its use against parasitic infections, is showing promise in combating various types of cancer. Learn about the mechanisms through which ivermectin induces cancer cell death, including apoptosis, autophagy, and mitochondrial dysfunction. We'll explore its impact on specific cancers like breast cancer, leukemia, pancreatic cancer, and ovarian cancer, highlighting studies that demonstrate its effectiveness in overcoming drug resistance and enhancing chemotherapy effects. Learn about the mechanisms through which ivermectin induces cancer cell death, including apoptosis, autophagy, and mitochondrial dysfunction. We'll explore its impact on specific cancers like breast cancer, leukemia, pancreatic cancer, and ovarian cancer, highlighting studies that demonstrate its effectiveness in overcoming drug resistance and enhancing chemotherapy effects.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-11T09:30:18+00:00

Sounds like someone has gone full retard

Not yet.... A refrigerator that works by stretching rubber bands

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-10T09:34:12+00:00

22 countries want to triple nuclear power. Is there enough uranium to go around?

Unfortunately the nuclear plants make poor counterpart of "renewables" on grid as they cannot be switched on and off easily without risk of poissoning of reactors. This is also why for example Germany still keeps its coal/gas plants for to balance the spikes. Even more substantial problem with nuclear energy is, there is simply not enough of uranium for everyone (see also here or here). The thorium energetic has its own drawbacks too. The return time of investments for nuclear plants is comparable to their life-time - so that they must get subsidized (by fossil fuel based economics indeed) in similar way (just in smaller extent) like the "renewables".

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-10T09:25:49+00:00

Critics sometimes argue that nuclear, wind or solar power have a hidden carbon footprint, due to their manufacture and construction. This large “carbon debt”, and the related debt of energy, must be paid off if they are to cut emissions over their lifetime. But Solar, wind and nuclear have ‘amazingly low’ carbon footprints, study finds. Building solar, wind or nuclear plants creates an insignificant carbon footprint compared with savings from avoiding fossil fuels a new study suggests.

This doesn't explain, why countries which highest portion of "renewables" in their energy portfolie also have highest prices of electricity for end customers. Yes. the wind/solar energy often comes dirty cheap or even with negative prices at energy markets with compare to coal - but is it really an advantage?

Suppose you produce one ton of bread in time when everyone is overstuffed, so that you're forced to sell it very cheaply. The carbon footprint of such a bread would appear very low considering its end price - but in reality it's most expensive and energy demanding form of bread instead.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-10T07:54:27+00:00

A cyborg cockroach factory: Automated assembly speeds up the creation of hybrid robots Based on Vision-guided Robotic Arm Manipulation of Custom Bipolar Electrodes

Cyborg Insect Factory: Automatic Assembly System to Build up Insect-computer Hybrid Robot

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-10T07:53:59+00:00

Comparing cooperative geometric puzzle solving in ants versus humans Ants and humans share a rare ability: each can work together in groups to mobilize oversized objects. In a new study, Prof. Ofer Feinerman's team from the Weizmann Institute of Science, led by Tabea Dreyer, drew upon this unique trait to conduct a fascinating evolutionary competition: Who is better at maneuvering a large load through a maze? The surprising results, published today, shed new light on group decision-making and the pros and cons of cooperation versus going it alone.

Interesting abilities of ants, but otherwise the comparison with humans is complete nonsense. Or better to say, an artificial attempt at sensationalism: Ants communicate by pheromones and maybe vibrations, humans communicate by speech. Humans weren't allowed to communicate during experiments, ants were. The result is that the ants were more cooperative. See also:

Humans Vs. Ants: The Maze Maybe ants can beat people in problem solving puzzles, but can they beat Asians?

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-10T07:47:59+00:00

A cyborg cockroach factory: Automated assembly speeds up the creation of hybrid robots Based on Vision-guided Robotic Arm Manipulation of Custom Bipolar Electrodes

Cyborg Insect Factory: Automatic Assembly System to Build up Insect-computer Hybrid Robot

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-10T07:31:34+00:00

Plastic crystals could replace greenhouse gases used in refrigerators about study Organic ionic plastic crystals having colossal barocaloric effects for sustainable refrigeration (PDF)

These crystals belong to a class of materials called organic ionic crystals, which feature molecules that can be arranged in different ways. What sets them apart is their ability to transition between disordered and highly organized states depending on applied pressure. When pressure is applied to these crystals, their molecules organize themselves into a neat, grid-like structure. Once the pressure is released, the molecules return to their disorganized form. This cyclic nature of pressure-induced reordering in plastic crystals is what makes them interesting from a refrigeration standpoint. The high amount of pressure required to compress the crystals presents a difficulty in designing a scalable and affordable cooling system.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-10T07:30:13+00:00

China Building “Solar Great Wall” That Could Power Beijing And Beyond Solar energy is environmentally wasteful 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 but Chinese government can afford way more bizarre projects by now. The main problem is that solar panels must be renewed every twenty thirty years, their energy must be accumulated and they consume lotta steel, aluminium, glass and expensive semiconductors. But this time there is an added value in fact, that solar panels are built in desert on high pylons so that there is still lotta space bellow panels for pasturage. Their shielding can reduce transpiration and enable growth of plants and ipso-fact enable greening of desert, which went unsuccessfully in other areas. See also:

Clean energy’s dirty secret: the trail of waste left by India’s solar power boom The economic criterion of solar energy success is actually simple: their profit from electricity at market must be higher than the profit of fossil fuel plants, otherwise solar energy gets subsidized with coal energy not vice-versa. But the cost of solar electricity at markets is still rather low, because gets abundant during timespan where electricity demands gets lowest and vice-versa.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-09T20:08:41+00:00

The new climate gold rush: Scrubbing carbon from the sky

Businesses Aim to Pull Greenhouse Gases From the Air. It’s a Gamble It's a waste of public money at the first line (which ipso-facto increases carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere at the end 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)... See also:
Attention and positive sentiments towards carbon dioxide removal have grown on social media over the past decade
The New Climate Gold Rush: Scrubbing Carbon From the Sky
Can Carbon Capture Live Up to the Hype?
The Trouble with Carbon Dioxide Removal

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-09T06:30:38+00:00

New hijacking scam targets Elsevier, Springer Nature, and other major publishers Until recently, journal hijackers do not appear to have targeted titles from big publishers, in part because their well-known website designs made such clones easy to detect.

Typically, cloned versions of journals’ websites are of low quality and don’t resemble the recognizable and professional designs of Springer Nature and Elsevier. As described in previous posts, fraudulent publishers would usually copy the ISSN, title and other metadata of niche and university journals in order to avoid identification, and possibly index their unauthorized content in bibliographic databases such as Scopus or Web of Science. But earlier this month, William Black, founder and CEO of PSIref, an online platform aggregating scholarly publication data which offers advertising opportunities for publishers, sent me evidence of a new, more sophisticated scam. See also:

Public funds being swallowed up by scientific journals with dubious articles An analysis suggests that some academic publishers have multiplied their income thanks to accepting trivial studies en masse.

The scientific publishers share many aspects of state capitalism with Big Pharma. They parasite on redistribution of public resources into scientific research by artificially maintained monopoly. Some people were worried about what might happen in a world where everyone chose to upload PDFs to the internet instead of publishing in journals. For instance, Annon writes:

I don't know what the solution is. Full disclosure, I've been working in journal publishing for 15 years. You successfully self-published an article. If everyone who wrote a paper did that, there would be 100s of manuscripts uploaded weekly with zero quality control and zero discoverability unless like a self-publishing fiction author you work your ass off at social media to get noticed.

I understand this fear, but I think it’s got the wrong model of the world. Imagine that the Nobel Committee decides to stop picking Nobel Prize winners. “Everybody can print out their own Nobel Prize certificate at home!” they announce.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-09T06:23:25+00:00

Elsevier’s stranglehold on academia: How publishers get rich off our data Academic publishers get rich collecting and then selling data from researchers. Academic publishers’ most valuable asset used to be their journals. Now, it’s the data they collect from researchers and then sell. That is extremely concerning, a growing group of Groningen researchers feels. ‘They control every part of the process and register every action you take and everything is recorded.

And that gives them far more information than you might realize. When Eiko Fried, a psychologist from the University of Leiden, asked Elsevier for his personal data in December 2021, he received an email with hundreds of thousands of data points, going back many years. He discovered that Elsevier knew his name, his affiliations and his research. That his reviews had been registered, as well as the requests for peer review he had declined. Elsevier kept track of his IP-addresses – leading back to his home – his private telephone numbers, and the moments he logged in, which showed exactly when he worked and when he was on vacation. There were websites he visited, articles he had downloaded or just viewed online. Every click, every reference was recorded. See also:

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-09T05:59:27+00:00

Archaeologists Unearth Roman Gold Ring With Holographic Image

Archaeologists unveiled a 1900-year-old gold ring with a holographic image in the grave of Aebutia Quarta, a Roman noblewoman, shedding new light on ancient artistic techniques and mourning practices. The exquisite jewelry piece, found at the Grottaferrata necropolis near Rome, showcases a lifelike depiction of Aebutia’s deceased son, Titus Carvilius Gemello, who passed away at the age of 18. It's a rock crystal cabochon that's been carved from the back side with technique called "reverse crystal intaglio. See also:

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-08T21:11:35+00:00

Fenbendazole Enhancing Anti-Tumor Effect: A Case Series [PDF] Fenbendazole (FBZ) is a cheap and readily available anti-parasitic commonly used in veterinary medicine. FBZ belongs to the benzimidazole drug class which destabilize microtubules through a mechanism similar to the anti-oncogenic vinca alkaloids. Although there are no reported cases in the literature, there have been several anecdotal stories published on website blogs with individuals praising its ability to treat a wide variety of cancers.

Fenbendazole as a Potential Anticancer Drug studies provided no evidence that fenbendazole would have value in cancer therapy, but suggested that this class of compounds merits further investigation.
Fenbendazole causes cancer cell death by modulating multiple cellular pathways
Fenbendazole and Artemisinin - the common sense by Dr. Tom Rogers
Fen ben for cancer?

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-08T17:03:34+00:00

How to Falsify String Theory at a Collider

The string landscape accommodates a broad range of possible effective field theories. This poses a challenge for extracting verifiable predictions as well as falsifiable signatures of string theory. Motivated by these considerations, in this work we observe that all known stringy Standard Models support only low-dimensional representations of the gauge group. While it is in principle possible to produce contrived models with higher-dimensional representations, these generically appear in a tower of states with lighter ones in lower-dimensional representations, i.e., not in isolation. With this in mind, we consider the phenomenologically well-motivated scenario of a single Majorana particle in a real, n-dimensional representation of SU(2)L with n≥5 and nothing else. This scenario is not realized in any known string construction, and we conjecture that this is true of string theory in general. Detection of this scenario would thus amount to falsifying the (known) string landscape. We recast existing LHC searches for new electroweak states to extract updated bounds on this class of scenarios. Improved limits from future colliders and dark matter detection experiments provide additional routes to potentially falsifying string theory.

No one has so far found a way to exactly reproduce the standard model from string theory. However, string theorists have found a lot of similar models. And once you have these models, you can calculate how many particles should appear together in sets at a collider. These sets of particles are called multiplets. The quarks in the standard model, for example, form a triplet. The authors of the new paper now say, let’s conjecture that particle models derived from string theory only have small sets of particles, so small multiplets. Then, so they say, we should never find a large set of new particles related by a symmetry group with a large number. So, if a particle collider found evidence for something like that, this could rule out string theory.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-08T08:25:05+00:00

Ancient Romans likely breathed lead pollution. Toxic metal likely led to diminished IQs for many ancient Romans by about three points.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-08T08:21:02+00:00

How a single nitrogen atom could transform the future of drug discovery about study Sulfenylnitrene-mediated nitrogen-atom insertion for late-stage skeletal editing of N-heterocycles

Researchers at the University of Oklahoma have developed a breakthrough method of adding a single nitrogen atom to molecules, unlocking new possibilities in drug research and development. Now published in the journal Science, this research is already gaining international attention from drug manufacturers.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-08T07:40:17+00:00

First-ever mechanical qubit with a long lifespan created on sapphire crystal: This mechanical qubit comes with 200 microseconds of coherence time, twice that of a superconducting qubit.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-07T12:35:31+00:00

A science mega-programme is taking shape in the EU: what it means for researchers

A new research commissioner will help to build the European Union’s next massive science scheme — with a renewed focus on innovation. The European Union (EU) has appointed Bulgarian politician Ekaterina Zaharieva as commissioner for start-ups, research and innovation in its five-yearly shake-up of its executive body. Zaharieva will help to shape their next multibillion-euro science programme, the follow-up to the Horizon Europe scheme. The inclusion of ‘start ups’ in Zaharieva’s title, a first for the position, reflects the increased focus on business. Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has pledged to prioritize science during her second term, as the EU aims to become less dependent on US and Chinese technologies.

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-07T11:48:26+00:00

The Promise in Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions - Solid State Fusion Discovery "If we put hydrogen isotopes, deuterium, into a lattice… the behavior will be different than what you might predict when looking at a plasma.” This view forms the foundation of her theoretical work, where ... lattice structures could support fusion reactions ... a critical aspect that distinguishes LENR from hot fusion research"

What Happens if You Focus a 5W Laser With a Giant Magnifying Glass? Most of us know, we can not heat objects with focusing of sunlight to the temperature higher than this one of Sun surface. But how it applies to monochromatic laser instead of black body radiation governed with Planck law? The thermodynamics of collisions within metal lattices is similar: the thermodynamic temperature and energy of transition can not be easily applied for them, once these collisions become low-dimensional and coherent.

Here I'm explaining that hot fusion runs on random collisions coming from all possible directions in an equal way. But head-2-head collisions of atoms inside of metal lattices are collinear - which is from statistical perspective of hot fusion as low probable arrangement as the probability that collision of two atoms at the room temperature overcomes Coulomb barrier.

Go figure, how these two extremely low probabilities can cancel out mutually...

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-07T11:34:51+00:00

The Berlin engineer Paul Hoffmann has succeeded in an invention that promises to be of revolutionary importance in the field of electricity generation. During decades of study in his mechanical workshop and laboratory, Hoffmann systematically studied phenomena in electrical machines that lead to an over-powering of the Drive machines. Through a system of windings in the armature and in the poles, in addition to the energy previously observed, he creates an additional effect, which he himself calls the resonance effect. In his experiments, he succeeded in converting the mechanical drive of the dynamo into a To implement a power output that, roughly speaking, would have resulted in 123 percent of the available power. For example, engineer Paul Hoffmann with the dynamo he designed

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-07T11:29:01+00:00

Nuclear becomes eligible for hydrogen tax credits under updated US rules Changes to the proposed final rules for US tax credits to support clean hydrogen production mean that existing nuclear power plants will now be eligible.

"The Section 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit, established under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, aims to support the deployment of clean hydrogen produced from various pathways. But for hydrogen produced from electricity, the initial version of the rules published just a year ago proposed that only clean power generators that began operating within three years of the hydrogen facility entering service would be eligible - effectively eliminating most existing US clean energy generating capacity, including nuclear."

"The final rules for the tax credit which have now been released by the US Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) "include significant changes and flexibilities that address several key issues to help grow the industry and move projects forward, while adhering to the law's emissions requirements for qualifying clean hydrogen'" the Treasury said. "With the inclusion of these changes, the final rules provide clarity, investment certainty, and flexibility, including for participants in projects planned as part of the US Department of Energy'’s Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs programme.

Uranium fuel production, construction of the plant (nuke) and decommission results in a CO2 footprint of 50% compared to oil. See also:

Hydrogen Finally Gets A Price Tag: S&P 500 New Energy Plays Soar Along With This Amazon Vendor. The government's decision to allow nuclear power providers to qualify for the hydrogen tax credit sent numerous nuclear stocks higher.
Big batteries and EVs to the rescue again as faults with new nuclear plant cause chaos on Nordic grids
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has unveiled a new target to triple nuclear generating capacity by 2050.
Adelaide residents blindsided by decision to store AUKUS nuclear waste at submarine shipyards
Hydrogen Hype is Dying, And That's a Good Thing

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-07T10:54:13+00:00

How Physicists Proved The Universe Isn't Locally Real - Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 explained

Has quantum mechanics proved that reality does not exist?

I wouldn't say, that Universe is less real at small distances - the Brownian noise of vacuum, i.e. ZPE quantum noise just applies there. I'd call it less deterministic instead. We would observe the same thing, if we would live at the water surface and use its surface ripples for observation and communication like whirligig beetles and/or waterstriders. The observable reality then would depend on whether they're in synchrony with Brownian noise around them or not (the shielding of hyperdimensional noise with hyperdimensional objects makes it less dimensional i.e. harmonic which creates a pilot wave and gravitational fields around objects).

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-07T03:56:39+00:00

Suppressed basal melting in the eastern Thwaites Glacier grounding zone Despite warm conditions, low current speeds and strong density stratification in the ice–ocean boundary layer actively restrict the vertical mixing of heat towards the ice base, resulting in strongly suppressed basal melting. Canonical model of ice-shelf basal melting used to generate sea-level projections cannot reproduce observed melt rates beneath this critically important glacier

Antarctica without ice Thwaites Glacier is located above the deep bay at the wester coast of Antarctica. I'd guess that if there would be a free undersea passage to western Antarctica coast, then the glacier would be already melted down..

OK, doomsday is "suppressed" for now.. Other than that, this article supports the general picture of coastal Antarctic glaciers, the melting of which is initiated by warm circumpolar currents instead of atmosphere, as anthropogenic global warming models would suggest. Once the coast is reached, then the melting of these glaciers will essentially stop. See also:

ZephirAWT · 2025-01-06T08:12:48+00:00

2025 is starting, Bill Gates announces the next pandemic date and outbreak location Thanx, Bill....

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