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National and international brewers and researchers will meet in Northwest Arkansas in early February at a conference focused on nonalcoholic beer production, the fastest growing segment in the industry.
A German aerospace engineer made history Saturday, becoming the first wheelchair user to go into space when she took a 10-minute trip aboard a Blue Origin rocket.
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In the heart of Namibia, a unique conservation project is quietly preparing for a future no one wants to face. At the Cheetah Conservation Fund, zoologist Dr. Laurie Marker has spent the past 35 years collecting and storing cheetah sperm samples. Her goal is simple, though sobering: to preserve the species’ genetic material in case [...]The post Why a cheetah sperm bank may be key to saving the species from extinction first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.
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INAHA cube-shaped human skull discovered by researchers in Mexico could yield new insights into an ancient cultural practice known as “intentional cranial deformation.” The skull belonged to a 40-year-old man who lived in the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range more than 1,000 years ago, according to a translated press release from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). The institute said the practice was carried out during a child’s early years, using boards and bandages wrapped around the skull to sculpt it as the child developed. “Not only was intentional cranial deformation identified for the first time for this type of site, but also a variant [was found] with respect to the models recognized in Mesoamerica not reported until now in the area,” anthropologist Jesús Ernesto Velasco González said, according to the release. He explained that the square shape of the skull was different than the typical “conical” shape seen elsewhere in the region.Read it at PeopleRead more at The Daily Beast.
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The most precise timekeepers ever made, atomic clocks, might one day help robotic and crewed missions on Mars stay in sync with each other, as well as enable the equivalent of GPS on the red planet. But, as Einstein made clear, time flows at different rates depending on where you are. Now scientists have estimated the speed at which clocks tick on Mars—an average of 477 millionths of a second faster than clocks on Earth per day. These findings might suggest ways in which future networks on Mars can avoid problems such clock differences might produce.Atomic clocks monitor the vibrations of atoms. Optical atomic clocks, which use intersecting laser beams to entrap and monitor the atoms, are currently accurate down to 1 attosecond, or a billionth of a billionth of a second. These clocks have many applications besides keeping time—for example, they are key to the precisely timed signals that GPS and other global navigation satellite systems rely on to help users pinpoint their own locations.However, because the gravity of massive objects warps spacetime, the rate of time passes different at different gravitational field strengths. In other words, the weaker a planet’s gravitational pull, the faster clocks on its surface tick. And the average strength of Mars’s gravitational pull is roughly three times as weak as Earth’s.Mars Timekeeping and GPS TechnologyIn 2024, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colo. estimated the rate at which clocks ticked on the moon, which has an average gravitational pull about six times as weak as Earth’s. Given NASA’s plans for missions to Mars, the researchers have now analyzed timekeeping on Mars and detailed their research in a study published online on 1 December in The Astronomical Journal.“With an understanding of these relativistic effects comes the hope that humans will someday become an interplanetary species,” says Neil Ashby, a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and an affiliate of NIST.Using years of data collected from previous Mars missions, the scientists calculated the strength of gravity on the Martian surface. They also had to account for the how the gravitational effects of the sun and the other planets on Mars changed over time over the course of the Red Planet’s eccentric, elongated orbit.Although clocks on Mars will on average tick 477 microseconds faster than on Earth per day, this value can increase or decrease by as much as 226 microseconds per day over the course of the Martian year, depending on effects from its celestial neighbors. Such variations could prove challenging when it comes to coordinating missions on Mars.“Microseconds matter in navigation and communications,” says Bijunath Patla, a theoretical physicist at NIST. “Current 5G networks rely on microsecond-level synchronization. GPS clocks are synchronized to a few nanoseconds.”This difference between Mars and Earth in clock speeds has not been a problem in past missions, because they relied “on one-way radio communication from ground stations on Earth and Mars,” Ashby says. “There was no need for rovers to be synchronized with each other.”This new research “is important if you have multiple assets on Mars and they need to be in sync with each other and independent from Earth,” Patla says. “This could be important in returning to the same location for further exploration or prospecting.”One possible way for Martian missions to deal with this difference between Earth and Martian clocks may be to deploy a GPS-like constellation of satellites around the planet so that both rover clocks and constellation clocks “share a common, Mars-centric system time,” Ashby says.In such a scheme, only small local corrections would be needed to be applied when comparing clocks on Mars. “‘Mars system time’ would remain internally self-consistent and largely independent of Earth, and only the Earth-Mars link would require periodic calibration to account for the larger interplanetary offsets,” Patla says.
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During the deployment of new space telescopes that are several critical steps each has to go through. Launch is probably the one most commonly thought of, another is “first light” of all of the instruments on the telescope. Ultimately, they’re responsible for the data the telescope is intended to collect - if they don’t work properly then the mission itself it a failure. Luckily, the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) recently collected first light on its 10 primary instruments, and everything seems to be in working order, according to a press release from the Southwest Research Institute who was responsible for ensuring the delivery of all 10 instruments went off without a hitch.
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What makes a good concert?I argue that the true magic of a live performance - and of music as a whole - is intimacy. A sense of community in a sea of thousands, closeness between artist and audience that transcends the barrier between seating and stage. And somehow, on her very first arena tour for her newest album, "A Matter of Time," Laufey created that magic, translating the intimacy I feel when listening to her music into a live performance that enchanted her audience.Laufey opened her set with "Clockwork," immediately setting the tone for the rest of her concert. The first "ding-dong" of a bell tolling transported me to a world tethered between the youth of giggly first loves and the mature self-awareness of knowing what it's like to fall for someone new. The light, bossa nova rhythms behind the lyrics were even more prominent live. I couldn't help but tap my feet as I sang along.The next two songs replicated a similar airy, jazzy vibe - "Lover Girl" with its romantic, bouncy chorus and iconic claps was followed by the biting, bittersweet lyrics of "Dreamer." The song's final lines, "No boy's going to kill the dreamer in me," segued seamlessly into the melancholy of the next song, "Falling Behind."But the true magic emerged in songs that showcased Laufey's dynamic vocal range. Slow in build-up, but almost cinematic in the choruses and bridges, they had the audience holding up flashlights in awe. Reader, if you haven't experienced singing "When you go to hell, I'll go there with you too" or angry-screaming the choruses of "Too Little, Too Late" with a crowd of a thousand people wearing white skirts and ribbons, you should. There is no better catharsis and no stronger bond of affection than the one between complete strangers who like the same music.By far the best part of the night was the jazz set (during Act II), and in my opinion, it is what truly "cast a spell" during the concert. Jazz is intimate in its design because it is founded on improvisation. It is complex and unpredictable; it ebbs and flows and draws on the artist's mood on any given day - and the inclusion of a jazz set in the Laufey concert was no different. There is a comfort in knowing that no one except for the people in the arena that night heard this specific version of the songs she performed that day; it is a unique closeness, a shared experience that cannot be replicated. And for someone who'd already seen her once on the Bewitched tour, the unique flavor to the performance of "Valentine" and "While You Were Sleeping" felt like I was hearing these songs for the very first time.Acts III and IV kept the magic going, focusing almost entirely on Laufey's newest album, with a few hits from Bewitched. "Carousel," the first song of this concert's second half, defines the feelings I associate with the rest of the concert: carefree, nostalgic, almost daydream-like. My personal favorites were "Mr. Eclectic" (the perfect balance between sass and bitterness) and "Castle in Hollywood" (a wistful musing on losing friends and growing old). The playfulness continued even through songs such as "Tough Luck," where I got to see Laufey spinning on the clock-like portion of the stage during one of the most iconic bridges of the whole album.Her spell never subsided, and that feeling of specialness came back during the surprise song, "Questions for the Universe," off Everything I Know About Love (Deluxe Edition). I hadn't heard the song in years, and listening to it with just Laufey and a piano was almost enchanting. It was the perfect segue into her final song of the night, "Letter To My 13 Year Old Self," a poignant epistolary to her childhood self, with lyrics that soothed my own insecurities.After attending Laufey's Philadelphia concert, I was left with the same feeling I experienced after the first time I saw her in D.C. during the Bewitched tour: love, loss and, above all, the desire to wear an ornate ballgown and experience life through a movie screen.
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TORONTO, Dec. 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. ("Xanadu"), a leading photonic quantum computing company, today announced that it has developed a novel quantum computational framework to accelerate the discovery of next-generation photosensitizers for photodynamic cancer therapy, a targeted cancer treatment. Published as a pre-print article on arXiv, Xanadu's new research demonstrates how fault-tolerant quantum computers can accelerate research into cutting-edge cancer treatments.Photodynamic cancer therapy uses light-activated compounds called photosensitizers to selectively destroy tumor cells, typically resulting in less collateral damage than conventional treatments, such as chemotherapy. However, a photosensitizer's success or failure often depends on complex properties, such as sensitivity to specific wavelengths of light and efficiency in triggering cancer cell death. Through the application of quantum simulation algorithms to four diverse photosensitizers, several of which are particularly challenging for classical simulations, Xanadu's new research shows that quantum computers can effectively simulate the key properties needed to model and improve these treatments."The development of effective photosensitizers is currently hampered by the high cost and runtime required for experimental synthesis and classical simulations. We believe our results position fault-tolerant quantum computing as a highly attractive solution for discovering advanced photosensitizers by modelling key physical properties," says Christian Weedbrook, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Xanadu.Through this work, Xanadu provides a blueprint for an efficient, quantum-based workflow that can help identify potentially promising drug candidates. By focusing on simulating critical physical properties, such as cumulative absorption and intersystem crossing rates, Xanadu provides a way to determine, from first principles, which photosensitizer candidates could lead to highly efficient generation of reactive, cancer-killing molecules, thereby supporting the effectiveness of the photodynamic cancer treatment. In addition, the research provides estimates for the computational resources required to run these algorithms on utility-scale quantum computers and indicates potential speed and efficiency gains over classical methods.This research serves as a foundational step toward a quantum-based workflow for drug design, with additional work planned to extend the framework to model more complex photosensitizer molecules. It provides an exciting new avenue for quantum computing to push the boundaries of drug development and cancer treatment.Business CombinationXanadu recently announced a business combination agreement with Crane Harbor Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:CHAC), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company ("Crane Harbor"). The combined company, Xanadu Quantum Technologies Limited ("NewCo"), is expected to be capitalized with approximately US$500 million in gross proceeds, comprising approximately US$225 million from Crane Harbor's trust account, assuming no redemptions by Crane Harbor's public stockholders, as well as US$275 million from a group of strategic and institutional investors participating in the transaction via a common equity committed private placement investment. NewCo is expected to be listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market and on the Toronto Stock Exchange.About XanaduXanadu is a Canadian quantum computing company with the mission to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere. Founded in 2016, Xanadu has become one of the world's leading quantum hardware and software companies. Xanadu also leads the development of PennyLane, an open-source software library for quantum computing and application development. Visit xanadu.ai or follow us on X @XanaduAI.About Crane HarborCrane Harbor is a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses.Additional Information About the Proposed Transaction and Where to Find ItThe proposed business combination transaction will be submitted to shareholders of Crane Harbor and Xanadu for their consideration. NewCo and Crane Harbor have jointly confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form F-4 (the "Registration Statement") to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The Registration Statement includes a proxy statement/prospectus to be distributed to Crane Harbor's shareholders in connection with Crane Harbor's solicitation of proxies for the vote by Crane Harbor's shareholders in connection with the proposed transaction and other matters to be described in the Registration Statement, as well as the prospectus relating to the offer of the securities to be issued to Xanadu's shareholders in connection with the completion of the proposed transaction. After the Registration Statement has been publicly filed and declared effective by the SEC, a definitive proxy statement/prospectus and other relevant documents will be mailed ...Full story available on Benzinga.com
Long before scientists discovered that other stars in the universe host their own planetary systems, humanity had contemplated the existence of life beyond Earth. As our technology matured and we began monitoring the night sky in multiple wavelengths (i.e., radio waves), this curiosity became a genuine scientific pursuit. By the 1960s, a scientific field dedicated to the search for advanced life (similar to ours) emerged: the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Since then, multiple SETI surveys have been conducted to search for potential signs of technological activity (aka "technosignatures").
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ZHUHAI, China, Dec. 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rezubio, a China-based biotechnology company founded by former Merck scientists, today announced the closing of a $20 million Series A financing. Proceeds will be used to advance the company's lead program into Phase 2 clinical development for obesity and diabetes, as well as other programs in IND-enabling stage and early preclinical stage.The financing was led by Lapam Capital, with participation from Frees Fund and Riverhead Capital."This Series A represents an important inflection point for ...Full story available on Benzinga.com
Science can be as dynamic as the researchers who explore it. The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers is recognizing three Sandia National Laboratories engineers who pushed beyond the boundaries of linear research to expand their knowledge and impact across multiple fields.
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Every year since 2010, I’ve posted an article about what trend I expect to dominate the next twelve months. Throughout the 2010s, these forecasts usually focused on emerging technologies or new currents in management thinking. But around 2020, that began to shift. The annual trends increasingly centered on how we cope with change rather than the change itself.Last year my trend was “The Coming Realignment.” History tends to propagate at a certain rhythm and then converge and cascade around certain points. Years like 1776, 1789, 1848, 1920, 1948, 1968, 1989—and, it seems, 2020—mark these inflection points. The years that follow are usually spent absorbing the shock and navigating the consequences. Today, everything is up for question. Will AI boom or bust? Will it take our jobs or bring new prosperity? What kind of economic system will we adopt for the future? We are in the midst of a great realignment. What we know from previous inflections is that what comes after will be profoundly different from before. What we most need to watch is our institutions.AI boom or bust?Today, the AI investment boom is without a doubt the single biggest factor propping up the US economy. Just this year, tech giants are expected to invest roughly $364 billion in the technology. And the spending won’t stop there. McKinsey projects that building AI data centers could add up to $5.2 trillion in investment by 2030.This boom is different from what we’ve seen in the past because the main investors aren’t speculators or startups, but some of the world’s most profitable companies, including Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft. Unlike in past cycles, if the industry hits a downturn, there will still be tens of billions of dollars in annual profits to cushion the blow. Still, as investor Paul Kedrosky points out, there are reasons to worry. Investment in data center infrastructure has already surpassed the peak of the dot-com boom and is beginning to approach levels last seen during the railroad frenzy of the 19th century. Also, 60% of the cost of those data centers goes to AI chips, which have a useful life of only about three years.That means this is not a boom that can wait decades to pay off. If today’s investments don’t generate returns in the near future, much of the infrastructure could fully depreciate before delivering meaningful profit. In practical terms, unless tech firms can earn more than $200 billion in profit—on these investments alone, not from their core businesses—they will be underwater. And as investment accelerates, that bar only rises.Kedrosky also notes signs of growing systemic risk. Increasingly, tech giants are choosing to finance their infrastructure build-outs with Enron-like special-purpose vehicles. These structures cost more but keep the debt off their balance sheets. That risk, in turn, is increasingly being passed to more traditional investors, including REITs.Will AI displace humans or enhance us? A 2023 report by the World Economic Forum, analyzing 673 million jobs, predicted structural job growth of 69 million jobs and a decline of 83 million, an overall decrease of 14 million jobs. An IMF analysis found that 40% of global employment is exposed. In an interview with Axios, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next one to five years.Yet more grounded economic analyses suggest a much more modest impact. A study by the St. Louis Fed suggests a 1.1% increase in aggregate worker productivity, with much of that increase concentrated in the tech sector. A paper by Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu, which looks at total factor productivity (TFP), a measure which takes use of capital into account, sees a 0.66% increase over 10 years, translating to a 0.064% increase in annual TFP growth.A recent McKinsey report takes an optimistic view. While noting that many routine office and production jobs are likely to disappear, those that leverage technical, social and emotional skills are likely to flourish, just as Autor has predicted. However, there is reason to suspect that optimists may be merely extrapolating from historical trends that may no longer apply.There’s no guarantee that the future will look like the past. An analysis in Harvard Business Review suggested that AI could disrupt the non-routine creative work that, to this point, has been hard to automate. Meanwhile, research in Science has found that, although AI may enhance individual creative work, it diminishes the diversity of novel output, potentially stifling the very innovation it aims to support.What will be the economic system of the future? Before 1789 the world was ruled by the divine right of kings and the feudal system. Yet that year would prove to be an inflection point. The American Constitution, the French Revolution, and the first Industrial Revolution, already underway since the introduction of the steam engine in 1776, together created a fundamental realignment of power.These forces would build and clash for decades until things came to a head in the revolutionary year of 1848. Today, we seem to be in a similarly liminal space, as we decide what kind of future we want to live in. The next century and a half would be dominated by the tensions between socialism and capitalism. When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, the West was triumphant. Communism was exposed as a corrupt system bereft of any real legitimacy. Yet for anyone paying attention, communism had long been discredited. As far back as the 1930s, Stalin’s disastrous collectivization and industrialization campaigns had led to mass starvation. By the 1970s, Soviet total factor productivity growth had gone negative, meaning more investment actually brought less output. Yet today, it is capitalism that finds itself under siege from all sides. Leftist progressives like Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani advocate for reining in the private sector and creating a bigger safety net. The mercantilist American president rails against free trade and nationalizes the means of production. Christian nationalists openly call for theocratic rule.At the same time, a new cadre of theorists has emerged whose ideas don’t fit the traditional right-left paradigm. New Right thinkers such as Curtis Yarvin and Patrick Deneen call for wholesale reordering of society. On the more technocratic side, a new school of thought is emerging that is associated with Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s book Abundance.It’s the institutions, stupidIn Why Nations Fail, economists Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson explain why the fate of nations rests less on innate factors such as geography, culture, or climate and more on the quality and types of institutions they build. In particular, they make the distinction between inclusive institutions and extractive institutions. Inclusive institutions protect property rights broadly across society, establish fair competition, and reward innovation. Extractive institutions, on the other hand, concentrate wealth in the hands of a small elite who exploit the broader population. These elite players control resources and use state power to enrich themselves at society’s expense.We are clearly in a liminal period in which we are struggling to adapt to shifts in technology, economics, and identity. Will AI oppress or empower regular people? Will we trade openly or retreat behind national barriers? Will we focus primarily on our local communities or see ourselves as citizens of a larger planet? As ever, there will be no shortage of pundits predicting the paths the future will take. Many of their narratives will be persuasive—but also mutually contradictory. The real tell will be what kinds of institutions we build and which ones we allow to decay or be destroyed outright. Are we creating institutions that strengthen rights and the rule of law, or those that serve the powerful?The outcome is still unclear, but the lines of battle have been drawn. If you want to know what to expect in the near to mid-term, pay less attention to predictions about technology, politics, or ideology and focus instead on institutions. Those are what create the norms and rituals that will shape the behaviors of the future.
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