I didn't forget! I do not want to either Science Rocks
Well done
The first drug to slow the destruction of the brain in Alzheimer's has been heralded as momentous and historic.
The research breakthrough ends decades of failure and shows a new era of drugs to treat Alzheimer's - the most common form of dementia - is possible.
Yet the medicine, lecanemab, has only a small effect and its impact on people's daily lives is debated.
And the drug works in the early stages of the disease, so most would miss out without a revolution in spotting it. Link to media
Link to study paper https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2212948
You need a university student to get access to the whole study[bigwhistle]
How long to Christmas? The missing Aussie bit?
Have not seen on for a few years myself. Had heaps in Central Vic and also when I was in Sydney
Could this be the year we solve the mystery of the disappearing Christmas beetle?
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Glittery canary in a coalmine'
Often people don't notice the insects we live with — until they're gone, she said.
"There are many species that may have disappeared rapidly. Christmas beetles are a very glittery canary in the coalmine.
Could this be the year we solve the mystery of the disappearing Christmas beetle? - ABC News
US scientists make major scientific breakthrough in nuclear fusion
Not a Hydrogen Bomb [biggrin] The anti nuclear people may not know re fusion vs fission as not ANTIs seem interested in attacking limitless fusion power ( in 30 ish years perhaps)
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"192 lasers" impressive results "Net energy gain has been an elusive goal because fusion happens at such high temperatures and pressures that it is incredibly difficult to control"
"Fusion works by pressing hydrogen atoms into each other with such force that they combine into helium, releasing enormous amounts of energy and heat. Unlike other nuclear reactions, it doesn't create radioactive waste"
A huge world wide almost project being built in France is due to start 2030 using another technology for Fusion. ITER
$$$$$$$"Billions of dollars and decades of work have gone into fusion research that has produced exhilarating results — for fractions of a second."
It is Trillions of $$$$ if you combine the several Fusion projects
Its not new tech. How to constrain the energy is new. The alarmist may get onto "thermonuclear weapons" which are very very nasty!
Laser Technology is leaping ahead so quickly at present. Our own efforts in Silex laser technology is world leading and importantly patented[biggrin]
If you think you understand your kidding yourself!
Any topic is that cool is magic
Nobel prize was given to two people for this "Quantum entanglement is a bizarre, counterintuitive phenomenon that explains how two subatomic particles can be intimately linked to each other even if separated by billions of light-years of space. Despite their vast separation, a change induced in one will affect the other"
While the Nobel prize is news "Physicists, including Einstein, proposed a number of alternative interpretations of quantum entanglement in the 1930s. They theorized there was some unknown property – dubbed hidden variables – that determined the state of a particle before measurement."
"Randomness of a new nature" did not fit with in Mr Einsteins comfort zone.
If your keen to know the unknown it does not always have to be religion [biggrin] Science happily admits what it doesn't understand yet knows exists!
German word for this is Verschränkung as recorded in a letter to Mr Einstein in 1936
"Quantum entanglement takes the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists for their contributions to understanding quantum entanglement and advancing the field of quantum information. The prize honors Alain Aspect of the University of Paris-Saclay and the École Polytechnique, John F. Clauser of J. F. Clauser & Associates, and Anton Zeilinger of the University of Vienna for developing experimental methods for probing entangled photons. The physicists’ work underpins quantum-based technologies such as quantum computing and quantum cryptography."
Proof is cool- Understanding it all would be better as its going to change our world in so many ways. Quantum cryptography is one of my personal interests.
That it is 100 plus year old theory may mean its not here yet [thumbsupbig]
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Buy right or "gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer" perhaps
Medicines from Chemist is very well controlled usually. A mate of mine in QLD who gets some thing from another source says it works well yet not at all sure why it does work[biggrin]
"presence of xylazine, a dangerous animal tranquilizer that can leave oozing wounds on limbs."
"CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The white powder, deposited in a small tube, arrived one morning by FedEx in a basement office on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“Quick OD, half bag, weirdly lethargic after,” the anonymous drug user from Wilmington, N.C., wrote on a slip of paper the size of an index card, which came with the tube. The user had a hunch that there was fentanyl in the powder but feared the presence of xylazine, a dangerous animal tranquilizer that can leave oozing wounds on limbs.
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I never understand people who buy drugs from nefarious types myself[bigwhistle]
"Erin Tracy, a chemist at the university who specializes in testing drugs, began searching for the answer. She dispensed the sample into a small vial, then loaded it into a $600,000 refrigerator-size device known as a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer, which is commonly used in academic chemistry laboratories. A nearby computer displayed the results in a line graph with a dramatic peak — the signal for fentanyl.
There was only a trace of xylazine, the machine confirmed. In a state increasingly besieged by the drug in the street supply, the results from the test, conducted in September, amounted to a partial relief."
Working in Sydney at times in the 80s had the overdose from Heroin people in Kings Cross rather a lot. In Hospital I was told the button I pushed or could push every five minute gave me a lot of 'fentanyl' which is " 50-100 times more potent than morphine. Spins me out thinking anyone would take any of than voluntarily!
I did not push the fentanyl button as soon as I woke up from the last surgery I had on my smashed pelvis. Not at all keen on taking legal meds unless I have to. Taking any unknown product? No thanks! No Need for a cool gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer for me.
