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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 [via Simonsfoundation.org] 🧪🥼🧠🩸 "a combination of ultrasound imaging and thin silicon probes to record high-resolution data for both #blood #flow and the #activity [] of #neurons" www.simonsfoundation.org/2026/07/07/d... #neuroscience

Deciphering the Link Between Neural Activity and Blood Flow in the BrainFor years, neuroscientists have sought to reconcile conflicting findings about how brain activity relates to blood flow. A new study suggests that the answer lies in a hidden balance between two oppos...www.simonsfoundation.org

𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗳𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗰𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗜, 𝟯 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 [via @sciam.bsky.social] 🧪🥼🔢🔏💡🤖🧠 "the result concerns a specialized corner of quantum cryptography [,] unclonable encryption... to see if GPT solves it" www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-h... #cryptography #AI #proofs #research #GPT

AI helped produce two proofs for the same cryptography problemAn M.I.T. Ph.D. student and two University of California system cryptographers used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra in different ways, raising new questions about independent discovery and scientific creditwww.scientificamerican.com

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳, 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗹 𝗼𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻? [author blog] 📚💙👻🤖🔄 "Consider energy as a foundation for all things. That can only be reincarnated into varied forms as we know it. Or matter," riannejar.wordpress.com/2015/12/29/r... #philsky #booksky #reincarnation #HnH #soul

Reincarnation: Truth, or an Addiction?Someone talked about ‘reincarnation,’ or a desire for reincarnation in some cultures, as an addiction. Here is a response… Perhaps only in part, for this – reincarnation &#8…riannejar.wordpress.com

𝐈𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 [Author blog] 💙📚⚖️ "Don't dwell on the past," the wise say. "Live in the present moment!" But what if the present continually rehashes, reconstitutes, and revisits the past torments of #America? riannejar.wordpress.com/2021/07/10/i... #HnH #writer #blog #immigrant #life

Immigrants to AmericaThe Indigenous and Descendants of Immigrants in America A quiet summer day at the local Public Library’s second-hand book shop, ‘The FriendsPlace.’ I volunteered there as a cashie…riannejar.wordpress.com

𝗛𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻, 𝗼𝗱𝗱 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 [via Science.org] 🧪🥼🌎⬜👨‍👧‍👧 “At the same time that Pythagoras was in ancient Greece doing his theorem, we had people here in Amazônia doing geometry” www.science.org/content/arti... #Lidar #discovery #shapes #Amazon #forest

Odd shapes hidden in dense Amazon rainforest reveal sprawling ancient civilizationNewly found earthworks suggest about 3 million people might have lived in just about 3% of the forest’s entire areawww.science.org

𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗰𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗢𝘇𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗰 𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘀, 𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 [via Stanford Med] 🧪👩‍🔬⚕️ "researchers named this peptide #BRP based on its parent prohormone, BPM/retinoic acid inducible neural specific 2" med.stanford.edu/news/all-new... #natural #peptide #weight #loss

Naturally occurring molecule rivals Ozempic in weight loss, sidesteps side effectsA Stanford Medicine study taps artificial intelligence to find a naturally occurring molecule called a peptide that suppressed appetite and led to weight loss in mice and pigs.med.stanford.edu

𝗦𝗮𝗺 𝗔𝗹𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗮 '𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆' 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜'𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿 [via Business Insider] 📰🤖🧠🗣️🧪 www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-o... (not a gift article; may need to enter an email address to read the article) #misconduct #deflection #distraction #AI #attacks

Sam Altman says we are in the singularity: 'This is the moment'OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he believes the technological singularity, the moment when artificial intelligence surpasses humans intelligence, is here.www.businessinsider.com

𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗸𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗽𝘆: 𝗭𝗶𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗤𝗶𝘂 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗶 𝗝𝗶𝗮𝗼 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗨𝗻𝗶 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 [via Science.org] 🧪🥼🧬✂️⚕️ "did not disclose Mei’s death and the side effects in primates - [or her parents'] financial contribution" www.science.org/content/arti... #gene #editing #therapy #risks

Chinese university launches probe into girl’s gene-editing deathMore than a year after failed clinical trial, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine promises “serious action”www.science.org

𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐲𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐬 [via Lund Uni] 🧪🥼👁️🐙👀 The original single eye continues as the pineal gland: "explain the striking cell-type similarities between the retina and the pineal gland." www.cell.com/current-biol... #bilateran #evolution #vertebrate #eye

Evolution of the vertebrate retina by repurposing of a composite ancestral median eyeThe vertebrate retina differs dramatically from that in all other animal eyes. In this review, Kafetzis et al. argue that, before the vertebrates, a series of lifestyle changes in ‘our’ lineage led to...www.cell.com

𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵'𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲 [via @quantamagazine.bsky.social] 🧪🦠 "growing, thriving, and digesting where nothing else can [] their enzymes are even responsible for modern #genetics and molecular #biology." www.quantamagazine.org/the-organism... #life

The Organisms That Make Earth’s Harshest Places Home | Quanta MagazineExtremophiles that thrive in the most unforgiving environments aren’t just biological curiosities. Understanding their resilience has many implications for us.www.quantamagazine.org

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲'𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀 [via @sciam.bsky.social] 🧪🥼🌍🥵💀 "not only killed thousands but has been sucking the water out of rivers, lakes, soils, and plants and fueling destructive wildfires." www.scientificamerican.com/article/euro... #Europe #HeatWave #global #warming

Europe's heat waves are killing thousands—and wringing its soils dryThe European continent is facing a dual reckoning this summer—extreme heat is killing thousands and draining its rivers, soils and reservoirs at a record pacewww.scientificamerican.com

"𝐀 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐬 - 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞" [via @quantamagazine.bsky.social] 🧪👨‍🔬⚛️🧬🌱 "distinct energetic states exist for health and disease... #mitochondria [are] tiny transformers responsible" www.quantamagazine.org/martin-picar... #life #flow #electrons #ions

Martin Picard’s Mitochondrial Theory of Mind | Quanta MagazineThe biologist’s bold “energetic view of life” looks to the body’s strangest organelles as the link between cells, health, and mind and the foundation of our experience of being alive.www.quantamagazine.org

𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗚𝗣𝗧 𝟱.𝟲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 '𝗖𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿' 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 [via @sciam.bsky.social] 🧪🥼🤖🧠 "[proof] shows that any guess-applicable graph can be doubly covered with no more than eight well-chosen loops" www.scientificamerican.com/article/chat... #graph #theory #MathSky #AI #proof

ChatGPT just proved another 50-year-old math conjectureWhat’s the secret to prompting an AI to solve math problems that have left humans stumped? Tell it to believe in itselfwww.scientificamerican.com

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐨𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐯 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐚'𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐦, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 [via @sciam.bsky.social] 🧪🥼✖️➕ "Karatsuba’s genius was realizing that you can trade expensive, time-consuming multiplications for cheap, fast additions." www.scientificamerican.com/article/math... #MathSky #complexity

Mathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbersA 23-year-old student overturned an ancient conjecture about one of math’s simplest operationswww.scientificamerican.com

𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐞-𝐄𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 [via Phys. Res.] 🧪⏲️🥶⚛️ Time is a measure of motion, not absolute or any phenomenon external to a reference frame, and this #quantum experiment appears to confirm it. Unless I am mistaken 😃 journals.aps.org/prresearch/a... #time #motion #timeless #system

Testing the problem of time with cold atomsAn ultracold atomic gas is used as a self-contained miniuniverse to show that time can be defined without an external clock. It's demonstrated that entropy exchange between different sectors of the sy...journals.aps.org

𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗱 𝘁𝗥𝘂𝗺𝗽'𝘀 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 [via @npr.org] 🧪🛂📜📜❌🤡❌ "Choose extra pages. The State Department says the 250th commemorative passport is only available in the standard, 28-page book." www.npr.org/2026/07/08/g... #US #passport #defilement #avoidance

New U.S. passports with Trump's image are available. Here's how to get (or avoid) oneThe passports feature an image of President Trump and are only available in person at the Washington Passport Agency — and only by appointment.www.npr.org

𝐈𝐧 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝... #nonfiction 💙📚 'An Indian American father's struggle with betrayal by his spouse and its consequences upon himself and his children... narrative explores his attempts to mitigate harm... in non-violent ways' www.amazon.com/dp/B00NR8QDF8 #BookSky #ebook

Humbling and HumilityHumbling and Humility - Kindle edition by Nejar, Rian. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Humbling and Humility.www.amazon.com

Happy 250th Birthday, #Immigrant #America! 🗽✨🥳🥂 Struggled to find words that could be meaningful and inspiring under the circumstances. Yet HOPE is forever. #diversity #inclusion #peace #love

𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐦-𝐦𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 [via Los Alamos] 🧪🥼⚛️🕰️⬅️➡️ No, just because equations (abstractions) of a system work just as well with reversed time does not mean that time (a measure of motion) itself can be reversed. www.lanl.gov/media/news/0... #time #travel #quantum #arrow

Controls developed to reshape quantum arrow of time | LANLPhysicists unveil quantum control protocols that reverse the arrow of time, enabling energy extraction and novel state preparation in qubits.www.lanl.gov

𝗔 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝘆𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 [via @quantamagazine.bsky.social] 🧪👩‍🔬🦠➗ But does not yet sustain itself... "they need to be fed many of their raw materials... and ribosomes, proteins." www.quantamagazine.org/for-the-firs... #synthetic #cell #division #evolution

For the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch Grows and Divides | Quanta MagazineScientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the l...www.quantamagazine.org