Tópico: Notícias científicas supimpas que não merecem um tópico próprio

[Gigaview]

O velho Lúcifer é muito bom em política, como profeta de assuntos aleatórios é um desastre.

Já tentou prever terremotos...agora vem com essa de pérola egípcia.

Desde 1837 se fala em câmaras secretas na grande pirâmide.

https://books.google.com.br/books?id=tlgoDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT98&ots=aJ4nnb7cZh&dq=secret%20chamber%20inside%20great%20pyramid%20-2017&pg=PT98#v=onepage&q=secret%20chamber%20inside%20great%20pyramid%20-2017&f=false



Já se fala nessa câmara desde 1965, inclusive com uso de raios cósmicos para detectá-la.

In 1965, a scientific proposal was Some of the members of the Joint Pyramid Project, consisting of, from left to right, Luis Alvarez, A. Fawzi, George Aziz, Amr Goneid, Jerry Anderson, Jim Burkhard, Fred Kreiss, Buck Buckingham and Lauren Yazalino submitted to a group of Egyptian physicists and archaeologists using cosmic-ray detectors (nuons technology). The American team, led by Dr. Luis Alvarez, suggested that, since there were two chambers in the superstructure of Khufu's Great Pyramid, and also two in the pyramid of his father, Sneferu, there should also be chambers located in the superstructure of Khafre's pyramid, who was Khufu's son. This experiment was no minor effort, nor was it the work of New Age thinkers. The Joint Pyramid Project was established on June 14, 1966 as a collaborative effort between physicists from the Ain Shams University of Cairo, the University of California and archaeologists from the Egyptian Antiquities Organization. Furthermore, it had the support of the US Atomic Energy Commission, who helped design the detection equipment, the Smithsonian Institute, the IBM corporation, Nobel Prize Winner Luiz Alvarez Hewlett-Packard, the National Geographic Society and the Egyptian Surveying Department.

http://enlightenedawareness.wikifoundry.com/page/Secret+Chambers+Of+The+Pyramids


E todo ano sai uma notícia sobre a descoberta de uma câmara secreta...alguns links após rápida pesquisa:

2014: https://www.sciencealert.com/robot-captures-first-images-of-great-pyramids-secret-chamber

2012: https://planetearthvortex.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/secret-chamber-found-behind-great-pyramid-shafts/

2011: http://jomarchant.com/decodingtheheavens.com/blog/post/2011/01/30/Great-Pyramids-secret-chambers.html   
          http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/great-pyramid-has-two-secret-chambers-french-architect-2197952.html

2003: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/09/0910_020913_egypt_1.html

Portanto, onde está a novidade aí se até Napoleão desconfiava que tinha algo mais naquele monte de pedras?

[Arcanjo Lúcifer]

Mas a confirmacao só veio agora.

Vc não  acreditava,

[Arcanjo Lúcifer]

Sério,  essa coisa do túnel vertical no centro da piramide já era conhecida há  tempos.

Sob ela existem sete quilômetros de túneis não  explorados porque alguns correm risco de desabar.

Era quase certo que tinha algo lá, pode ser só um espaço vazio.

Possivelmente é só um espaço vazio.

[Gigaview]

Astronomer Announces He Has Discovered ... Mars

Astronomer Peter Dunsby just made a groundbreaking discovery, after noticing a very bright "star" pop up in his field of view at an observatory at the University of Cape Town that was not present two weeks prior.

Too bad Dunsby was perhaps thousands of years late … the bright object was the planet Mars. Though no one knows for sure who discovered the Red Planet, Galileo Galilei observed the giant red orb — whose diameter spans a whopping 4,222 miles (6,794 km) — in 1609; and Martian fascination has arguably not waned since.

Before realizing his marvelous mistake, Dunsby posted a note on the Astronomer's Telegram, a publication for very short (under 4,000 characters) reports by astronomers, detailing his observations, in which he described the bright object had shown up between the Lagoon and Trifid nebulas, both nestled in the constellation Sagittarius.

About 40 minutres later, the Telegram issued a correction: "The object reported in ATel 11448 has been identified as Mars. Our sincere apologies for the earlier report and the inconvenience caused."

And, not to let Dunsby go quietly into the night, the Telegram also sent out a cheeky tweet: "For Discovery of Mars.  Congratulations, Prof.  Peter Dunsby!"

https://www.livescience.com/62094-astronomer-discovers-mars.html

[Gigaview]

Saiu na Scientific American...Nibiru vem aí....apertem os cintos....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_cataclysm

Looking for Planet Nine, Astronomers Gaze into the Abyss


Two years on, the search for our solar system’s missing world is as frenzied as ever—and the putative planet is running out of places to hide

It’s been just over two years since Caltech astronomers Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin made an explosive claim: Based on the orbital motion of objects in the Kuiper Belt—a region beyond Neptune that is home to Pluto and other icy bodies—there must be a very big something much farther out, hidden save for its subtle gravitational tugs on the rest of the solar system.

Brown and Batygin’s best models put this mysterious object at about 10 times Earth’s mass, perhaps 20 times more distant from the sun than Neptune and currently drifting through what might be a 20,000-year orbit in a patch of sky near the constellation Orion. Brown and Batygin called it “Planet Nine,” elevating it to the position once held by Pluto (which was demoted to “dwarf planet” status in 2006, when Brown discovered multiple Pluto-like worlds out past Neptune). Within months a small army of theorists and observers had thrown themselves into the search—which, so far, has come up empty. Planet Nine remains stubbornly in absentia.

Unknown planets far from the sun are not a new idea; they perennially pop up in astronomy. Such claims trace back to the 1800s, and fostered the discoveries of Neptune and Pluto. What makes Planet Nine different is how much more we now know about the outer solar system—a vast and stygian abyss in which hiding a planet is still possible, although getting harder all the time. Out there twirl frozen bits of flotsam left over from our solar system’s earliest moments. A big planet’s gravity can act like a thumb on a scale, subtly but substantially tweaking the movements of these so-called trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). As astronomers use new telescopes and other instruments to rapidly map this last frontier of the solar system, they keep finding what seems to be a Planet Nine–shaped hole in it.

Brown and Batygin’s proposed planet handily explains orbital oddities observed in some TNOs. In their initial paper the pair showed how a recently discovered population of TNOs, bizarrely orbiting nearly perpendicular to the plane of the known planets, could be coaxed and kept there by the gravity of a far-out hidden world. Other newfound TNOs move in a telltale filigree of orbital resonances, periodically perturbing one another in a web of complex patterns that hint at further interactions with some great, unseen mass. Planet Nine’s gravitational influence could even serve as a solution to the long-standing mystery of why the sun’s axis of spin is tilted six degrees askew to the orbits of the inner planets.

Mike Brown (left) and Konstantin Batygin (right) finalize their first paper postulating the existence of Planet Nine in this photo from December 2015. Credit: Konstantin Batygin

Planet Nine also aligns with an emerging awareness that the solar system’s early days were a chaotic mess, in which the early formation of Jupiter and Saturn scattered smaller and more embryonic worlds into the sun or the interstellar void. In this picture Planet Nine might have been an outbound world that plowed through enough debris to slow down and get trapped in the solar hinterlands. Or it could have been an alien outcast from another star, gravitationally captured when it wandered too close to our own. In an indirect way it could even be responsible for our existence—scattered inward rather than outward, it might have disrupted Earth’s orbit, preventing life’s genesis here.

Further afield, surveys of planets orbiting other stars have shown the most common worlds in our galaxy bear a passing resemblance to the putative Planet Nine—so-called “super-Earths” that are midway in size between Earth and Neptune, and appear around most stars we examine. If Planet Nine is real, it could be more than just another planet on the block; it could be the missing link between our familiar solar system and those we now see elsewhere in the Milky Way.

“I try not to be religious about my own results. It’s important to keep a skeptical eye,” Batygin says. “But I actually feel more comfortable than I did two years ago, because the theory still holds up beautifully. The more we look, the more we see a solar system that makes no sense without Planet Nine.”

THE MOST MYSTERIOUS OBJECT IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM

In the months following the announcement, many of Planet Nine’s most fervent seekers (Brown chief among them) predicted it would probably be found by the end of the following winter—that is, by now. In January of this year Brown was still bullish: Based on “statistically rigorous calculations” incorporating all the available data, there is only a one-in-10,000 chance the planet is not out there, waiting to be found. In other words, Brown’s best guess is Planet Nine has a 99.99 percent probability of being real.

Astronomer Scott Sheppard, a Planet Nine hunter at the Carnegie Institution for Science, recently ballparked the odds at 85 percent—an estimate consistent with his more conservative research style. In 2014, two years before Brown and Batygin’s bombshell (and with far less fanfare), Sheppard and Gemini Observatory astronomer Chad Trujillo published their own claim of an undiscovered super-Earth in the outer solar system.

Sheppard and Trujillo’s work concerned what may be—after Planet Nine—the second-most mysterious object in the solar system: a 1,000-kilometer-wide TNO called Sedna, discovered in 2003 by Brown, Trujillo and another colleague.

At present, the clustered orbits of objects in the Kuiper belt beyond Neptune provide the best evidence for Planet Nine's existence. Sedna's orbit (purple) as well as the orbits of several other objects (pink) suggest they have been pushed out by the hypothesized planet (orange). Planet Nine's gravitational influence could also explain another population of objects (blue) orbiting perpendicular to the plane of the solar system. Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)

Sedna occupies a bizarre 11,400-year “eccentric” orbit: an elongated ellipse that takes it more than 20 times farther out than Pluto, and never brings it closer than twice Neptune’s distance from the sun. Such an extreme orbit is probably a scar from a violent past, a sign that long ago Sedna was gravitationally hurled from its standard circling onto a wild new trajectory . In the outer solar system such orbits tend to be tethered at one end to whichever giant planet originally did the hurling. But Sedna’s was not attached to Neptune—it seemed detached from everything, and nothing else seen orbiting the sun shared its strange orbital properties. That is until Sheppard and Trujillo discovered a second detached and eccentric Sedna-like (but much smaller) object, 2012 VP113.

One “Sednoid” could have been a fluke; two suggested the existence of a large, scarcely glimpsed population of detached objects. How did they get there? One possibility, proffered early on by Brown and others, was that such bizarre orbits came from a chance close encounter with a passing star in our solar system’s infancy. But a single obscure detail made Sheppard and Trujillo suggest the cause was instead a hidden planet: The Sednoids shared an uncanny alignment with several other recently reported “extreme” TNOs. All lived in eccentric orbits at a high angle to the disklike plane where the known planets exist, periodically swooping through that plane in their orbits—and all swooped through that plane just as they made their closest approach to the sun. In the arcane parlance of astronomy, they clustered around a common “argument of perihelion.”

“Normally arguments of perihelion should be random, having any angle between the full 0 to 360 range of possible orientations. But these were all quite improbably clustered together,” Trujillo recalls. “One of the things that can confine them into a narrow range like that is the presence of a massive planet farther out. … Scott and I did a few simple simulations that suggested this was a possibility, but we didn’t go into much detail—we were primarily just reporting the discovery of 2012 VP113!”

Two years later Brown and Batygin’s papers burst into view, building on Sheppard and Trujillo’s work with hundreds of simulations predicting a mass and orbit for the possible world—a “treasure map” for planet-hunting astronomers. The Planet Nine hypothesis was born, along with a friendly but fierce rivalry that persists to this day.

“This is science at its finest,” Sheppard says. “We noticed something weird going on out there and showed why it could be due to a big planet. Then they built on that and actually got an orbit for this thing. I don’t think we have anything to prove but it would be fun to find the planet. Whoever happens to point their telescope at the right spot at the right time will do it.”

A NEEDLE IN A CELESTIAL HAYSTACK

Most hunters agree that if Planet Nine was anywhere near the point closest to the sun, it would be bright enough to have already been found. Instead it is probably near aphelion—the outermost sweep of its orbit, where it moves the slowest and thus spends most of its time. Seen in Earth’s sky, it might now appear as a tiny dot somewhat dimmer than one of Pluto’s midsize moons, gliding almost imperceptibly against a starry backdrop. Fainter TNOs have already been found, meaning Planet Nine should be within reach of many telescopes around the world. But, as Batygin puts it, “the amount of real estate that is available for the planet to hide in is astronomically vast.” That means some 400 square degrees of sky, or 2,000 times the area covered by the full moon.

To have a decent chance at discovery within this immense space, one needs a very large light-gathering mirror to peer deeply into the sky for dim objects as well as a wide field of view to quickly scan large chunks of the heavens for a needle in a celestial haystack. Only a few telescopes on the ground (and none yet in space) boast both.

Brown and Batygin use the facility best suited for this search—the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea, a dormant Hawaiian volcano. Sheppard and Trujillo do, too, while hedging their bets with observations at several other large telescopes. Using Subaru’s new wide-field, 870-megapixel Hyper Suprime-Cam, either team can cover six full moons’ worth of sky per image. Each takes snapshots of the firmament across several consecutive nights, then uses a computer to look for any uncatalogued objects that slowly change position.

The Milky Way and the constellation of Orion rise above the Subaru Telescope atop the dormant volcano Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Subaru is the premier observatory searching for Planet Nine, which is thought to lurk somewhere in this broad swath of sky. Credit: Sebastian Egner, Subaru Telescope and NAOJ

The search can only take place at certain times of year, chiefly during the Northern Hemisphere’s autumn and winter, when the general region where Planet Nine might live is high in the sky. So these rivals tend to observe almost back-to-back, one team arriving practically as the other is packing up to leave. Earlier the two teams shared data and split the survey region into parcels that one or the other would observe. But now they keep to themselves, blindly overlapping their monitoring of any given piece of sky—not out of distrust but simply to ensure the collective search is as thorough as possible. Instead of observing any given segment of sky just once, the rivals are opting to watch each one twice or more by virtue of their independence.

High-altitude weather sometimes fouls the narrow observational windows, and both teams’ recent observing sessions at Subaru have been decidedly unlucky. Near-continual snow and hail blotted out the sky for Brown and Batygin on one fruitless run last December; their final night was particularly grim, when an igloolike shell of ice frozen to Subaru’s protective dome prevented them from even accessing the telescope. On another trip in January poor weather prevented Sheppard and Trujillo from making 70 percent of their planned observations. During Brown and Batygin’s most recent outing in February persistent high-altitude winds smeared the stars into pancakelike shapes, scuttling the search. “I like pancakes,” Brown quipped on Twitter, “but not this many.” Plagued by poor weather, what began as a sprint to the finish has turned into a longer slog.

FROM THE ARCHIVES

One of the most sweeping data sets now narrowing down Planet Nine’s possible hiding places does not come from a telescopic search at all—but rather from NASA’s Cassini orbiter at Saturn, which recently plunged into the ringed planet after a 13-year stay. That was long enough for the spacecraft to have recorded any faint perturbations a faraway planet could induce in Saturn’s motion around the sun. After Batygin and Brown’s announcement a team at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, led by the physicist William Folkner, searched for such anomalies amid the positional data Cassini beamed back during its mission, but found none. This means if Planet Nine exists and is about 10 Earth masses, it must be on an even longer, more eccentric orbit than thought, and nearing an aphelion perhaps twice as far out as was first forecast in 2016. That great distance would make it even harder to see. Alternatively, it could be smaller than 10 Earth masses and still close to Brown and Batygin’s canonical predicted orbit.

Or it could simply not exist.

“The stinging possibility here is that Planet Nine is just frickin’ far out, and then we have to wait for a new generation of better telescopes to find it,” Batygin says. “Another possibility I try not to think about too much is that it’s in the galactic plane.” That’s the disk of the Milky Way that arcs like a glowing backbone through the night sky. A fraction of Planet Nine’s proposed orbit passes through this region, where the dim, glacially creeping planetary dot could hide in a thick fog of background stars.

Only one near-future facility can easily pierce the Milky Way’s luminous veil: the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), a behemoth of an observatory with an 8.4-meter, wide-field mirror hooked up to a three-gigapixel camera. Currently under construction in Chile and set to begin its survey in 2022, during each night’s observations the LSST will capture 20 terabytes’ worth of panoramic views of the sky overhead to create a celestial time-lapse movie of unprecedented depth and detail. Its expansive view is likely to uncover hundreds if not thousands of additional extreme TNOs, providing a flood of hard data to further test Brown and Batygin’s hypothesis. Even if Planet Nine is rather dim, particularly far away and in front of the galactic plane, the most crucial evidence for or against its existence should pop out of LSST’s colossal database within a few years of the survey’s debut—presuming it is not found before then.

In the meantime Cassini’s is not the only archival data being used in the ongoing search. A team led by astronomer David Gerdes at the University of Michigan is taking a different approach: looking for the planet within the accumulated images from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), a project now in its fifth and final year. Designed to map an eighth of the night sky, DES’s view coincidentally overlaps with Brown and Batygin’s best guess for Planet Nine’s approximate celestial location. The project’s workhorse is the Dark Energy Camera, a 570-megapixel instrument with a field of view twice as large as that of Subaru’s. It is mounted on the four-meter Victor M. Blanco Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in the Chilean Andes, just a short hike away from LSST’s construction site. The DES equipment can cover twice as much sky as Subaru in any given snapshot. But because its telescope is about half the size, it must take much longer exposures—a situation that arguably gives Subaru a slight edge.

Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) sits beneath a shower of stars in this long-exposure photo. Multiple teams use instruments on CTIO’s Blanco Telescope (leftmost dome) to hunt for Planet Nine. If the planet continues to elude astronomers into the 2020s, the last, best hope for finding it will be the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a facility now under construction near CTIO. Credit: Reidar Hahn Fermilab

Other broadly similar archive-based searches are in various stages of completion—chiefly one overseen by the University of California, Berkeley, astrophysicist Peter Nugent using data from a small telescope at Palomar Observatory and another from Berkeley astronomer Aaron Meisner and colleagues using data from NASA’s space-based Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). There is even a “citizen science” Web site devoted to letting anyone—even you, dear reader—pore through WISE images for the elusive planet. And behind all the observations a vast and diverse ecosystem of numerical simulations hums along on powerful supercomputers, trying to further narrow the search for Planet Nine by modeling its gravitational effects on the solar system across multibillion-year timescales.

“We are carpet-bombing the sky to see what falls out,” Gerdes says. “Two years on, the first thing we can say about Planet Nine is that it’s not low-hanging fruit, but we’re still shaking the tree.”


OVERCOMING BIAS

And so the search goes on, sustained by a steady trickle of smaller discoveries: TNOs with weird orbits that seem to fit the patterns theorists insist such a planet would create.

Many have come from the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS), a recently completed project using a 387-megapixel camera on the 3.6-meter Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope, which sits near Subaru on Mauna Kea. During its four-year run OSSOS found several new extreme TNOs by deeply staring at a few-hundred-square-degree chunk of sky. Surely, then, Planet Nine’s metaphorical thumb on the outer solar system’s scale should have left fingerprints all over the OSSOS data. And indeed, in a paper published last summer, the OSSOS team announced three of their newfound extreme TNOs were consistent with the clustering patterns underpinning the Planet Nine hypothesis—but a fourth one was not. Including this outlier in their analysis and accounting for potential biases in their observations, the team concluded the TNO clustering first identified by Sheppard and Trujillo in 2014 could well be illusory.

That is, due the seasonality of observing runs and inclement weather on Mauna Kea and other major mountaintop observatories, OSSOS and other surveys might simply have an easier time finding extreme TNOs in the region of sky that supports the Planet Nine hypothesis. And, given that the total number of known extreme TNOs is still very low—anywhere from 10 to just under 30, depending on which definitions are used—the true, more typical distribution of such objects would only become clear after many more are found and any biases accounted for. “We cannot reject a uniform distribution [of extreme TNOs] with our new discoveries,” says Michele Bannister, an astronomer and OSSOS team member at Queen’s University Belfast. “We can’t say there’s no Planet Nine but we can say that its proposed effects are not present at a statistically significant level in our independent data set. … It’s an increasingly big ask to continue hiding a 10-Earth-mass planet out there, now that all these surveys are being completed.”

Few if any prominent Planet Nine hunters are swayed, however. Brown and Batygin reject the OSSOS team’s implication that other TNO searches are unreliable due to vaguely defined biases, and note that even if biases are rampant, their effects should average out when collectively considering surveys with widely divergent methodologies. If all but one survey (OSSOS) shows clustering, they say, that clustering is likely genuine.

Gerdes, the leader of the archival DES search, acknowledges all present surveys suffer some degree of observational bias that must be carefully accounted for. But he says the jury is still out as to their significance. According to his team’s latest analysis, there is only a few-percent chance the orbital alignments they have observed among the extreme TNOs would occur in the absence of Planet Nine. “Is ‘a few percent’ large of small?” Gerdes asks. “It depends on your definition—if there was a few percent chance of rain, you’d go ahead with the picnic. If a few percent of all airline flights crashed, you’d never get on a plane.”

If the prize is a new planet—and with it a whole new understanding of the solar system—even Planet Nine’s naysayers concede a significant chance of failure would be worth the risk. “You have to be most careful around the most alluring hypotheses,” Bannister says. “They are seductive because they are beautiful. It would be enchanting—amazing—to have an extra planet to study. We would observe it with all our telescopes. We would write proposals to send spacecraft there very quickly. But we can’t forget we are talking about a realm of the solar system that is still very hard to explore. We must take care with what the data tries to tell us, because we are mapping the deep.”

Regardless of whether or not Planet Nine exists, Bannister says, its unfolding story is really a tale of discovering how our little corner of the cosmos truly came to be. “We will write the history book of our solar system based on what we find out there in the next several years, and it is already clear the system we see today is not as it was formed,” she says. “That won’t change whether we have nine planets instead of eight.”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/looking-for-planet-nine-astronomers-gaze-into-the-abyss/

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AI mimics brain codes for navigation
An artificial-intelligence technique called deep learning has now been used to model spatial navigation. The system develops a representation of space similar to that of the grid cells found in the mammalian brain.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-04992-7?utm_source=fbk_nr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=NNPnature

[EuSouOqueSou]

Híbrido de humano-ovelha é criado em laboratório – entenda os fatos
O grande avanço deixa os pesquisadores mais perto de desenvolver órgãos humanos para transplante médico.

Baseado em um grande avanço controverso feito em 2017, cientistas anunciaram no sábado ter criado com sucesso o segundo híbrido de humano com um animal: embriões de ovelha que são 0,01% humanos de acordo com a contagem de células.

Os embriões, que não conseguiram se desenvolver após 28 dias, deixam os pesquisadores mais perto de talvez desenvolver órgãos humanos para transplante médico.

No Brasil, a lista nacional de transplantes conta com mais de 30 mil pacientes e, ano após ano, pelo menos 2 mil pessoas morrem à espera de um transplante. Nos Estados Unidos, mais de cem mil pessoas precisam de transplantes de coração anualmente, mas apenas cerca de 2 mil pessoas recebem um.

Em resposta, pesquisadores estão trabalhando para expandir o fornecimento de órgãos artificialmente. Alguns estão tentando imprimir órgãos em 3-D em laboratório. Outros estão trabalhando em órgãos artificiais e mecânicos. E alguns estão fazendo quimeras, híbridos de duas espécies diferentes, na esperança de criar órgãos humanos em porcos ou em ovelhas.

Mais e mais humanos
Para realizar o quimerismo genético, os pesquisadores isolam uma célula-tronco do animal, que pode se desenvolver em qualquer tipo de célula do corpo. Depois, eles injetam algumas células-tronco de uma espécie no embrião da outra, um procedimento complicado de se acertar.

Se o DNA do embrião for alterado de modo que ele não cresça em um órgão em particular, as células interligadas serão as únicas que poderão completar a lacuna. Dessa maneira, os pesquisadores podem desenvolver um fígado humano em um porco vivo, por exemplo.

Em 2017, pesquisadores usando esse método conseguiram, com sucesso, desenvolver pâncreas de camundongos em ratos e mostraram que transplantes usando pâncreas poderia curar a diabetes de um rato diabético. No dia seguinte, pesquisadores do Instituto Salk anunciaram que eles poderiam manter embriões de porcos injetados com células-tronco humanas vivos por 28 dias.

Especialistas em células-tronco elogiaram o estudo feito com humanos e porcos, mas eles observaram que a contagem de células humanas em embriões de porcos, por volta de uma em cem mil, era muito baixa para fazer transplantes de órgãos com sucesso.

No sábado, na reunião anual da Associação Americana para o Avanço da Ciência, em Austin, no Texas, o pesquisador Pablo Ross, da Universidade da Califórnia em Davis, anunciou que ele e seus colegas ajustaram o procedimento: aumentaram a contagem de células humanas em embriões de ovelha para um em cada dez mil.

“Acreditamos que ainda não é o suficiente para fazer um órgão”, disse Ross durante uma conferência de imprensa. Cerca de 1% do embrião teria que ser humano para o transplante de órgão funcionar, segundo reportagem do jornal The Guardian. Para prevenir a rejeição imunológica, seriam necessárias medidas extras para assegurar que os pedaços extras de vírus do animal estejam presos pelo DNA do porco ou da ovelha. Mas o trabalho mostra um progresso em relação a mais órgãos viáveis.

Consequências éticas
Ross diz que a pesquisa poderia ser acelerada se fosse melhor financiada. Recentemente, os Institutos Nacionais de Saúde dos Estados Unidos proibiram o financiamento público de híbridos de humanos e animais, embora tenham assinalado em 2016 que poderiam levantar a moratória. (Até agora, doadores privados financiaram as pesquisas iniciais.)

Enquanto o trabalho continua, o escrutínio ético com certeza irá se intensificar. Ross e seus colegas têm conhecimento da natureza controversa do trabalho, mas eles também dizem que estão avançando com cuidado.

“Até agora, a contribuição de células humanas é muito pequena. Não é nada parecido com um porco com um rosto humano ou um cérebro humano”, disse o pesquisador da Universidade Stanford Hiro Nakauchi, um colega de Ross. Nakauchi disse também que os pesquisadores estão tentando direcionar o lugar onde as células humanas se proliferam, para assegurar que elas não se instalem nos cérebros dos animais e nos órgãos reprodutores.

Ross vê as amplas abordagens para a pesquisa de órgãos com otimismo.

“Todas essas abordagens são controversas, e nenhuma delas é perfeita, mas elas oferecem esperança para as pessoas que estão morrendo diariamente”, ele disse. “Precisamos explorar todas as alternativas possíveis para fornecer órgãos para as pessoas doentes.”

https://www.nationalgeographicbrasil.com/ciencia/2018/02/hibrido-de-humano-ovelha-e-criado-em-laboratorio-entenda-os-fatos

[Buckaroo Banzai]

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/7a5NyUITbyk" target="_blank" class="new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/7a5NyUITbyk</a>

Cool!

Imagine só, um "painel de escuridão" para geração de eletricidade.

Temo que isso seja daqueles exageros parecidos com o daquela propulsão vudu que causou alguma "polêmica" recentemente.

Mas o material usado para refrigeração sem energia parece algo fantástico, ainda assim.




Talvez os SETIs da vida possam inferir padrões diferentes previsíveis dessas coisas, de emissão de IV de regiões com planetas, como mais uma das possíveis inferências de vida inteligente em outros planetas.

[Buckaroo Banzai]

https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/geral-43079112

Madeira tratada e hiper-comprimida fica mais forte que aço, cogita-se poder substituí-lo em alguns usos.

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Space mining could become a real thing — and it could be worth trillions
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/15/mining-asteroids-could-be-worth-trillions-of-dollars.html

Asteroid Database and Mining Rankings – Asterank
http://www.asterank.com/

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https://gizmodo.uol.com.br/areia-esta-acabando-no-mundo/
ONU alerta que o consumo atual de areia ( 40 bilhões de toneladas anuais ) excede a renovação natural do material.

https://www.businessinsider.com/world-running-out-sand-resources-concrete-2018-6

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Essa é uma descoberta tão interessante que valeria até um tópico!

Removing the appendix early in life reduces the risk of developing Parkinson's disease by 19 to 25 percent, according to the largest and most comprehensive study of its kind, published today in Science Translational Medicine.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-10-appendix-potential-parkinson-disease.html

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Fico curioso se haveria uma correlação causal mais direta, etiológica, ou alguma coincidência que cause a correlação de forma mais espúria.

Seria causal:

The findings also solidify the role of the gut and immune system in the genesis of the disease, and reveal that the appendix acts as a major reservoir for abnormally folded alpha-synuclein proteins, which are closely linked to Parkinson's onset and progression.

"Our results point to the appendix as a site of origin for Parkinson's and provide a path forward for devising new treatment strategies that leverage the gastrointestinal tract's role in the development of the disease," said Viviane Labrie, Ph.D., an assistant professor at Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) and senior author of the study. "Despite having a reputation as largely unnecessary, the appendix actually plays a major part in our immune systems, in regulating the makeup of our gut bacteria and now, as shown by our work, in Parkinson's disease."

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Ambas? Em maior ou menor grau, holisticamente falando?

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Manchete em forma de Clickbait sem vergonha:

Brasileiros podem falir a industria de anti histamínicos

A cura da asma alérgica pode estar bem próxima.

Um grupo de pesquisadores brasileiros conseguiu impedir que a condição, depois de manifestada, prosseguisse em cobaias.

Para isso, eles aumentaram a quantidade de uma proteína, chamada IL-9, que bloqueou os linfócitos T CD4, que são responsáveis pela produção da citocina que desencadeia a cascata de eventos que resulta no início e na progressão da asma alérgica.

"O que atualmente se administra em pessoas com alergia ou asma brônquica são medicamentos como anti-histamínicos, broncodilatadores e corticoides, que inibem sintomas da doença, além de inibir a resposta celular, incluindo a dos linfócitos TH2.

"No entanto, as células TH2 levam à produção de substâncias responsáveis pela sintomatologia; então o tratamento é só de sintomas como coriza, dificuldade de respirar, entre outros. O que nós descobrimos é que, se forem bloqueados outros linfócitos T, os TH9, a doença vai ter uma resolução efetiva, bloqueando inclusive a produção de substâncias que causam os sintomas," explicou o professor João Santana da Silva, da USP de Ribeirão Preto (SP).

https://www.diariodasaude.com.br/news.php?article=brasileiros-descobrem-rota-interromper-asma-alergica&id=13120

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Cocô de neném pode fazer bem pra saúde!

                                                ESTUDO DIZ QUE COCÔ DE BEBÊ PODE TRAZER BENEFÍCIOS A SAÚDE

Não, caros leitores, vocês não leram o título errado. Realmente estamos falando de cocô de bebê. Se você tem um recém-nascido na família, por exemplo, fique atento ao que iremos dizer nessa matéria. Bom, vocês sabem quais alimentos são ricos em probióticos (bactérias benéficas)? Muitos vão citar o pão ou iogurte, mas poucos sabe que o cocô dos bebês é rico em probióticos.

Pode parecer muito nojento, mas essa teoria veio de cientistas da Escola de Medicina Wake Forest (EUA). Eles criaram um "coquetel" de probióticos derivados de cepas bacterianas intestinais encontradas em fezes infantis. Bom, a gente conta mais detalhes desse tal coquetel para vocês.

Probióticos em cocô de bebê


Supostamente os microrganismos desse coquetel que supostamente ajudariam o organismo das pessoas a produzirem ácidos graxos de cadeia curta. O professor assistente de medicina molecular, Hariom Yadav, é um dos autores do estudo.

Ele explica que "os ácidos graxos de cadeia curta são um componente chave para a boa saúde intestinal. Pessoas com diabetes, obesidade, doenças autoimunes e câncer frequentemente possuem menos ácidos graxos de cadeia curta. Aumentar sua incidência pode ser útil para manter ou restaurar uma flora intestinal normal e, com sorte, melhorar a saúde". Ele ainda explica que "os bebês geralmente são bem saudáveis e claramente não sofrem de doenças relacionadas à idade, como diabetes e câncer".



No estudo, a equipe de Yadav coletou amostras fecais de fraldas de 34 bebês saudáveis. Depois de alguns processos de seleção, os pesquisadores selecionaram os dez melhores microrganismos entre os mais de 300 analisados.

Para testar a capacidade desses probióticos, os cientistas injetaram uma dose única e cinco doses consecutivas dos coquetéis em ratos. Depois, a mesma mistura foi injetada em fezes humanas. O resultado? Alguns ratos tiveram o micro bioma intestinal modulado e apresentaram melhoras na produção de ácidos graxos de cadeia curta no intestino. A mesma coisa aconteceu nas fezes humanas.

Mas como o experimento foi feito primeiro com cobaias animais e fezes de seres humanos com doenças que afetam a saúde intestinal, os efeitos dos probióticos em indivíduos saudáveis merece mais avaliação e estudos.
https://www.fatosdesconhecidos.com.br/estudo-diz-que-coco-de-bebe-pode-trazer-beneficios-saude/

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Cientistas suíços desenvolveram um implante elétrico que é colocado ao redor da medula espinhal para estimular impulsos do cérebro para as pernas. O resultado? Pacientes que achavam que nunca mais caminhariam contrariando as previsões que ouviram a vida toda.

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A IBM confirmou o lançamento do seu primeiro computador quântico projetado para uso comercial, conforme havia anunciado no ano passado.

O sistema, batizado de IBM Q System One, não será vendido, mas alugado, com os futuros clientes fazendo seus cálculos quânticos pela internet.

O anúncio é um esforço de marketing em busca do estabelecimento de uma "supremacia comercial", mais do que uma supremacia técnica.

Afinal, com seus 20 qubits, o equipamento está longe de atingir a "supremacia quântica", o ponto a partir do qual os processadores quânticos deverão superar os processadores eletrônicos clássicos, o que se estima exigir pelo menos 50 qubits.

De fato, o primeiro teste comparativo de processadores quânticos mostrou resultados um tanto decepcionantes.
https://www.inovacaotecnologica.com.br/noticias/noticia.php?artigo=ibm-lanca-seu-primeiro-computador-quantico-comercial&id=010150190109#.XDY5ftJKi00

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bum bum paticundum burungundum Samba faz bem pro coração!

Samba para o coração

Um grupo de pesquisadores brasileiros desenvolveu uma substância que freia o avanço da insuficiência cardíaca e ainda melhora a capacidade do coração em bombear sangue.

Animais de laboratório com quadro de insuficiência cardíaca tratados por seis semanas com a substância, batizada de Samba (acrônimo em inglês para "Antagonista Seletivo da Associação de Mitofusina 1 e Beta2PKC"), apresentaram não só uma estabilização da doença - como ocorre com os medicamentos atuais - como ainda tiveram uma regressão do quadro. Os animais tiveram melhora na capacidade de contração do músculo cardíaco.

A insuficiência cardíaca pode ocorrer em consequência de um infarto do miocárdio, quando uma artéria coronária entupida impede a oferta de sangue para parte do coração, sobrecarregando o restante do tecido. Como resultado, o órgão reduz ao longo do tempo sua capacidade de bombear sangue para o corpo.

Os pesquisadores já fizeram o pedido de patente da substância e da sua aplicação nos Estados Unidos. Ela pode eventualmente complementar ou mesmo substituir os medicamentos atuais usados para a insuficiência cardíaca, a maioria deles criada nos anos 1980.

https://www.diariodasaude.com.br/news.php?article=samba-coracao-substancia-brasileira-trata-insuficiencia-cardiaca&id=13215

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No medicamento, talvez...

[Gigaview]

Os benefícios são anulados pelo excesso de cerveja e de cachaça.

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P Q P !!! Quem diria, gengivite pode ser causa de Alzheimer !

Qual é a causa do Alzheimer?

Podemos finalmente ter encontrado a causa da doença de Alzheimer: a Porphyromonas gingivalis, a principal bactéria causadora da doença gengival crônica, ou periodontite, aquela que geralmente faz sua gengiva sangrar quando você escova os dentes.

Pode não parecer uma boa notícia, já que essa doença da gengiva afeta cerca de um terço da população. Mas o que é realmente positivo é que uma droga que bloqueia as principais toxinas da P. gingivalis está entrando em teste clínico este ano, e uma pesquisa publicada hoje mostra que esse fármaco pode estabilizar e até reverter a doença de Alzheimer.

Pode ser possível até mesmo fabricar uma vacina contra a demência.

A doença de Alzheimer é um dos maiores mistérios da medicina, frequentemente envolvendo o acúmulo de proteínas chamadas beta-amiloides e tau no cérebro. A principal hipótese é que a doença surge de defeitos dessas duas proteínas, mas todos os candidatos a medicamentos seguindo essa linha falharam, e pesquisas recentes revelaram que as pessoas podem ter placas amiloides sem ter a demência. Mesmo a perda de neurônios no início do Alzheimer pode ser uma defesa do cérebro.

Além disso, contrariamente à chamada "hipótese amiloide", há evidências de que a função das proteínas amiloides pode ser uma defesa contra as bactérias, levando a uma série de estudos recentes que analisam bactérias associadas com a doença de Alzheimer, particularmente aquelas que causam doenças nas gengivas, já conhecidas como um importante fator de risco para a condição.

https://www.diariodasaude.com.br/

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Flavim,  dona Zika,   Chico Cunha e seo Plasmodio querem você na mesa do buteco, tomando aquela cerva...

Brasil é um dos países que mais bebem cerveja no mundo, com um consumo de cerca de 70 litros por ano por pessoa. O que é certo é que no verão se toma mais, porque para muita gente a estação mais quente do ano "pede" uma gelada. Mas é preciso ter cuidado. Alguns especialistas alertam que esta bebida, principalmente em excesso, pode aumentar a chance de infecção pelos vírus da dengue, zika, chikungunya e malária.

O professor titular do Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia (MIP) do Centro de Ciências Biológicas (CCB) da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Carlos Brisola Marcondes, cita dois estudos, um realizado no Japão e outro em Burquina Faso, que verificaram que a ingestão de cerveja atrai mais mosquitos para o bebedor.

https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/geral-47049253

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Algumas pessoas alertaram que esta bebida, principalmente em excesso, pode aumentar a chance de infecção pelo vírus da dengue, zika, chikungunya e malária.

O que oferece risco mesmo é copo de boteco.
 
Eu compro a minha no mercado e lavo a lata antes de colocar para gelar, só bebo em casa.

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Algumas pessoas alertaram que esta bebida, principalmente em excesso, pode aumentar a chance de infecção pelo vírus da dengue, zika, chikungunya e malária.

O que oferece risco mesmo é copo de boteco.
 
Eu compro a minha no mercado e lavo a lata antes de colocar para gelar, só bebo em casa.

Esses cairomônios e o álcool não são as únicas substâncias que aumentam o número de picadas. "Há várias que atraem mosquitos, sendo as mais conhecidas o gás carbônico e o ácido láctico (liberado no suor), e certamente há outras que ocorrem naturalmente no corpo que os repelem.", diz Marcondes.

Picadura de mosquito! Até os mosquitos sabem que * de bêbado não tem dono.