Research Stash Weekly Review #43

Weekly Review #43 – Summary of the latest news In science and technology research across the world, carefully handpicked by team Research Stash

Neural network folds proteins a million times faster than its competitors

Despite knowing next to nothing about chemistry or biology, a neural network can make a good stab at one of the toughest problems in biochemistry – predicting how a protein folds simply by looking at its amino acid sequence Read More

Scientists Just Revealed a Brand New Type of Endlessly Recyclable Plastic

In a perfect world, plastic would never be on a one-way trip into landfill – it’s a vision we’ve strived to realise for decades. Unfortunately, some plastics just don’t recycle as easily as others, limiting how well we can reuse them in new products. But a new kind of plastic might help change all that. Read More

A.I. Can Now Read Your Thoughts—And Turn Them Into Words and Images

A recent article in Nature highlights a discovery that pushes the boundaries of our imaginations and challenges some of the very attributes that make us human. The piece details how artificial intelligence is creating speech by interpreting brain signals (and even offers an audio recording for a chance to hear it for yourself). Read More

An Astrophysicist Just Calculated The Insanely Complex Waveform of Two Colliding Black Holes

Thanks to recent groundbreaking observations, we now know that two colliding black holes produce gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of space-time. Read More

Artificial embryos possible after embryonic stem cells breakthrough

An incredible new study from researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has for the first time found a way to transform skin cells into all three of the stem cell types that make up an early-stage embryo. Read More

Cannabis used in US research differs genetically to the varieties people smoke

Strains used for scientific purposes are more like hemp than the marijuana sold in dispensaries, suggests a study. Read More

Hubble telescope captures stunning spiral galaxy image

Spiral galaxies are known to combine whirling, pinwheeling arms with scatterings of sparkling stars, glowing bursts of gas, and dark, weaving lanes of cosmic dust, according to NASA, which posted the stunning image. Read More

Scientists have identified a new type of dementia

The condition, limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy, or Late, shares similar symptoms to Alzheimer’s, but it is a distinct disease, the journal Brain reports. Read More

A new camera can photograph you from 45 kilometres away

Developed in China, the lidar-based system can cut through city smog to resolve human-sized features at vast distances. Read More

Scientists Have Finally Achieved Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication

Quantum communication is a strange beast, but one of the weirdest proposed forms of it is called counterfactual communication – a type of quantum communication where no particles travel between two recipients. Read More

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