[URL="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/what-s-creating-thousands-craters-california-coast"]What’s creating thousands of craters off the California coast?[/URL]

[URL="https://scitechdaily.com/mit-neuroscientists-demonstrate-controlling-attention-with-brain-waves/"]MIT Neuroscientists Demonstrate Controlling Attention With Brain Waves[/URL]

[URL="https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-decode-the-brain-scientists-automate-the-study-of-behavior-20191210/"]To Decode the Brain, Scientists Automate the Study of Behavior[/URL]

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[URL="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-asymmetric-brain/201912/neuroscience-and-music-insights-drummers-brains"]Neuroscience and Music: Insights from Drummers’ Brains[/URL]

[URL="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/even-dinosaurs-had-lice-fossils-entombed-amber-reveal"]Even dinosaurs had lice, fossils entombed in amber reveal[/URL]

[URL="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191210081201.htm"]Brain patterns can predict speech of words and syllables[/URL]

[URL="https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-12-key-mystery-brain-cognition-understood.html"]Key mystery about how the brain produces cognition is finally understood[/URL]

[URL="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-asks-people-with-down-syndrome-to-record-themselves-speaking-2019-12"]Google wants people with Down syndrome to record themselves speaking to help train its AI to recognize unique speech patterns[/URL]

[url=https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/warning-ancient-tree-rings-americas-are-prone-catastrophic-simultaneous-droughts]A warning from ancient tree rings: The Americas are prone to catastrophic, simultaneous droughts[/url] | Science

[url=https://phys.org/news/2019-12-evolution-revelatory-relationship.html]Evolution: A revelatory relationship[/url] | Phys.org: [i]A new study of the ecology of an enigmatic group of novel unicellular organisms by scientists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich supports the idea hydrogen played an important role in the evolution of Eukaryota, the first nucleated cells.[/i]

I'd say this qualifies as a bit of a "whoopsie":

[url=https://phys.org/news/2020-01-evidence-key-assumption-discovery-dark.html]New evidence shows that the key assumption made in the discovery of dark energy is in error[/url] | Phys.org
[quote]The most direct and strongest evidence for the accelerating universe with dark energy is provided by the distance measurements using type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) for the galaxies at high redshift. This result is based on the assumption that the corrected luminosity of SN Ia through the empirical standardization would not evolve with redshift.

New observations and analysis made by a team of astronomers at Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea), together with their collaborators at Lyon University and KASI, show, however, that this key assumption is most likely in error. The team has performed very high-quality (signal-to-noise ratio ~175) spectroscopic observations to cover most of the reported nearby early-type host galaxies of SN Ia, from which they obtained the most direct and reliable measurements of population ages for these host galaxies. They find a significant correlation between SN luminosity and stellar population age at a 99.5 percent confidence level. As such, this is the most direct and stringent test ever made for the luminosity evolution of SN Ia. Since SN progenitors in host galaxies are getting younger with redshift (look-back time), this result inevitably indicates a serious systematic bias with redshift in SN cosmology. Taken at face values, the luminosity evolution of SN is significant enough to question the very existence of dark energy. When the luminosity evolution of SN is properly taken into account, the team found that the evidence for the existence of dark energy simply goes away (see Figure 1).

Commenting on the result, Prof. Young-Wook Lee (Yonsei Univ., Seoul), who led the project said, "Quoting Carl Sagan, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, but I am not sure we have such extraordinary evidence for dark energy. Our result illustrates that dark energy from SN cosmology, which led to the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, might be an artifact of a fragile and false assumption."[/quote]

The replies and critiques of data analysis in that paper appear (to this untrained observer) stronger than the paper itself. Looks more likely there are flaws in that new paper than with the dark energy premise.

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[URL="https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/the-crazy-story-of-how-soviet-russia-bugged-an-american-embassys-typewriters"]The Crazy Story of How Soviet Russia Bugged an American Embassy’s Typewriters[/URL]

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"The Crazy Story of How Soviet Russia Bugged an American Embassy’s Typewriters" -- That is one ingenious keylogger there. Also seems only fair in a Spy-vs-Spy sense, since the CIA [url=electricalstrategies.com/about/in-the-news/spies-in-the-xerox-machine/]bugged Xerox copiers all over the world[/url], starting with one in the Soviet embassy in Washington DC.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;535265]"The Crazy Story of How Soviet Russia Bugged an American Embassy’s Typewriters" -- That is one ingenious keylogger there. Also seems only fair in a Spy-vs-Spy sense, since the CIA [URL="http://electricalstrategies.com/about/in-the-news/spies-in-the-xerox-machine/"]bugged Xerox copiers all over the world[/URL], starting with one in the Soviet embassy in Washington DC.[/QUOTE]
[url]https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/the-crazy-story-of-how-soviet-russia-bugged-an-american-embassys-typewriters[/url]
FTFY

[QUOTE=kladner;535326][url]https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/the-crazy-story-of-how-soviet-russia-bugged-an-american-embassys-typewriters[/url]
FTFY[/QUOTE]

I was quote-box-less-replying to rogue's preceding collection of links, which contained the IEEE Spectrum typewriters one.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;535370]I was quote-box-less-replying to rogue's preceding collection of links, which contained the IEEE Spectrum typewriters one.[/QUOTE]
So you did. :blush:

o [url=https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/20/who-calls-for-emergency-meeting-on-new-virus-in-china-as-cases-spread-to-health-care-workers/]WHO calls for emergency meeting on new China virus, as cases spread[/url] | StatNews
[quote]The World Health Organization announced Monday that it would convene an expert panel to determine whether a fast-developing outbreak caused by a new virus in China should be declared a global health emergency.

The news came as China reported confirmed cases in Beijing and in Guangdong province, 14 cases in health care workers — a first — and a confirmed incident involving human-to-human spread of the new virus, known provisionally as 2019-nCoV. It is a coronavirus, from the same family as the viruses that caused the 2003 SARS outbreak, which sickened more than 8,000 people globally, killing nearly 800.

It also comes as China prepares to celebrate the Lunar New Year, when people throughout the country travel to be with family. Experts fear this event could spread the virus widely.

To date, China has confirmed more than 200 infections with the new virus; four people have died and at least eight others remain in critical condition.[/quote]
[b]Update:[/b] [url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/case-of-wuhan-coronavirus-detected-in-washington-state-first-in-united-states/]First confirmed case in the US[/url], a 30-something man who had recently traveled to Wuhan and came down sick after returning to Washington state.

o [url=https://phys.org/news/2020-01-ultrafast-camera-trillion-transparent-phenomena.html]Ultrafast camera takes 1 trillion frames per second of transparent objects and phenomena[/url] | Phys.org
[quote]The fast-imaging portion of the system consists of something Wang calls lossless encoding compressed ultrafast technology (LLE-CUP). Unlike most other ultrafast video-imaging technologies that take a series of images in succession while repeating the events, the LLE-CUP system takes a single shot, capturing all the motion that occurs during the time that shot takes to complete. Since it is much quicker to take a single shot than multiple shots, LLE-CUP is capable of capturing motion, such as the movement of light itself, that is far too fast to be imaged by more typical camera technology.[/quote]
At 1 trillion frames per second, a pulse of light will travel a mere ~0.3mm between frames - that's wild.

o [url=https://newatlas.com/medical/immune-t-cell-universal-cancer-immunotherapy-cardiff/]Newly discovered immune cell points to universal cancer treatment[/url] | New Atlas
[quote]Breakthrough research from an international team of scientists has uncovered a new type of immune cell with the ability to target and kill most kinds of cancer cells. The discovery was previously thought to be impossible and, although it is still untested in human subjects, it offers the potential for revolutionizing immunotherapy as a possible universal cancer treatment.

One of the most groundbreaking recent advances in cancer treatment has been the development of CAR-T immunotherapy. This highly personalized treatment involves harvesting a patient’s immune T cells and reprogramming them to target specific proteins found on the patient’s cancer cells.

In 2017 the FDA approved the first treatment of this type for young patients with a rare kind of blood and bone marrow cancer. However, the therapy is expensive, time-consuming to produce, and not without the risk of severe side effects.

The big limitation faced by researchers working on CAR-T therapies is that there isn’t one universal T-cell receptor (TCR) that can target different kinds of cancers in all patients. In fact, it was generally thought this kind of universal cancer-targeting TCR simply didn’t exist.

A new study, published in the prestigious journal Nature Immunology, suggests a universal TCR does exist, and it has been found. The research describes the discovery of an immune T-cell that displays a novel receptor that seems to have the ability to target and kill a broad variety of human cancer cell types while leaving healthy cells alone.

The newly discovered T-cell is thought to be able to distinguish cancer cells from healthy ones by homing in on a surface molecule called MR1. While this molecule is present on almost all cells in the human body, the researchers suspect it presents differently on cancer cells, allowing for a single TCR to be able to effectively target a broad variety of tumors.[/quote]
I wonder what Batalov thinks of this?

[QUOTE=ewmayer;535667]I wonder what Batalov thinks of this?[/QUOTE]
“The new findings are at a very early stage, but they’re an exciting step in the right direction". That's what he thinks. He is not very original.

Immunomodulation is very cutting edge. Immune cells transcend the genome (genome provides a lego set for them to make trillions of unique sequences; so in that sense, knowing genome degenerates for them into knowing that they just use As, Cs, Gs and Ts).