Oxygen found half a billion light years away

For the first time ever, scientists have discovered evidence of molecular oxygen in a distant galaxy. Despite being the third most abundant element in… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/334912/oxygen-found-half-a-billion-light-years-away…

Would Star Trek’s Transporters Kill and Replace You?

schwit1 quotes Syfy Wire:
There is, admittedly, some ambiguity about precisely how Trek’s transporters work. The events of some episodes subtly contradict events in others. The closest thing to an official word we have is the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual, which states that when a person enters a transporter, they are scanned by molecular imaging scanners that convert a…

Powerful Antibiotic Discovered Using Machine Learning For First Time

A powerful antibiotic that kills some of the most dangerous drug-resistant bacteria in the world has been discovered using artificial intelligence. The Guardian reports: To find new antibiotics, the researchers first trained a “deep learning” algorithm to identify the sorts of molecules that kill bacteria. To do this, they fed the program information on the atomic and molecular features of nearly…