Unqualified Curiosity

Hello all and Happy Holidays! I hope you have enjoyed the royalty-free Christmas music in the past few episodes. Unfortunately, this is the last week of royalty-free Christmas :(. This week we dive into the world of chirality investigating the impacts of developing life built on molecules the mirror opposite of those seen in the human body, we also look at why humans developed traits such as long tendons and short fibers by investigating models from Lucy's skeletal structure, and finally, we look into the development of treatments for common genomic diseases using CRISPR genetic modification techniques.
Citations are as follows: 
Mirror Life:
‘Unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe research | Science | The Guardian
Creating ‘Mirror Life’ Could Be Disastrous, Scientists Warn | Scientific American
Technical Report on Mirror Bacteria: Feasibility and Risks | Stanford Digital Repository
Technical Report on Mirror Bacteria Feasibility and Risks.pdf
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Solving The Mystery Of Left-handed Amino Acids In Primordial RNA Reactions - Astrobiology
standard model - Left Handed / Right Handed Particles and the Weak Force - Physics Stack Exchange
Solving the mystery of left-handed amino acid | EurekAlert!
Homochirality - Wikipedia
Chiral drugs - Wikipedia
Many drugs have mirror image chemical structures – while one may be helpful, the other may be harmful - USC News & Events | University of South Carolina
"Mirror Life" is Still a Hypothetical. Here's Why it Should Probably Stay That Way. | University of Utah Health
Why is DNA right-handed? UNL finding supports hypothesis | Nebraska Today
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Human Movement Evolution:
Humans evolved for distance running – but ancestor ‘Lucy’ didn’t go far or fast
Running performance in Australopithecus afarensis: Current Biology
Running performance in Australopithecus afarensis
Endurance running hypothesis - Wikipedia
Long-Distance Running May Have Evolved to Help Humans Chase Prey to Exhaustion | Smithsonian
Sweat glands: Structure and function | Kenhub
Sweat gland | Definition, Function, Types, & Facts | Britannica
Lucy: A marvelous specimen | Learn Science at Scitable
OpenSim: a musculoskeletal modeling and simulation framework for in silico investigations and exchange - PMC
Simulations of hominin Lucy help show how long distance running evolved in modern humans
CRISPR Medical Treatment:
CRISPR genome-editing grows up: advanced therapies head for the clinic
CRISPR 2.0: a new wave of gene editors heads for clinical trials
UK first to approve CRISPR treatment for diseases: what you need to know
Can CRISPR cure Sickle-cell Disease?
Sickle cell gene therapy boosting fetal hemoglobin shows promise - Boston Children's Answers
Fetal hemoglobin - Wikipedia
What is CRISPR-Cas9?
News: The Latest Updates From the Gene-Editing Clinical Trials (October 2024) - CRISPR Medicine
Recent Advancements in Reducing the Off-Target Effect of CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing - PMC
A tutorial on conducting genome‐wide association studies: Quality control and statistical analysis - PMC
Beware the chopsticks gene | Molecular Psychiatry
Genome-wide association studies | Nature Reviews Methods Primers
Disease gene identification - Wikipedia
Genetic association - Wikipedia
Applications and challenges of CRISPR-Cas gene-editing to disease treatment in clinics - PMC

This week we dive deeper into the world of AI and how it will impact our daily lives, investigate Google's developments in quantum error correction, and find out how to carefully curate your morning cup of joe to fit your daily needs. All that and a little bit of upcoming events in this week's episode. 
Citations Follow:
AI Weather:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03957-3?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=679a647084-nature-briefing-ai-robotics-20241210&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-679a647084-499015222&mc_cid=679a647084&mc_eid=2537c0eb4c
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08252-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14956
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02249-6
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Primitive equations - Wikipedia
meteorology - What exactly is the time step in weather predictions? - Physics Stack Exchange
Weather Forecast Models: The Ultimate Guide (2024) | Climavision
ECMWF vs GFS. What’s the difference, and which weather model is more accurate - Windy.app
Chaos Theory: What It Is, History, and Example
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08252-9
Quantum Computing:
Google’s quantum computer hits key milestone by reducing errors
Suppressing quantum errors by scaling a surface code logical qubit | Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03288-3
‘A truly remarkable breakthrough’: Google’s new quantum chip achieves accuracy milestone
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03288-3
Building logical qubits in a superconducting quantum computing system | npj Quantum Information
Quantum processor enters unprecedented territory for error correction – Physics World
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9050892/
How Do CPUs Continue to Increase in Power?
What is High Performance Computing | NetApp
Limits of computation - Wikipedia
https://qmunity.thequantuminsider.com/2024/10/03/what-are-physical-logical-and-topological-qubits/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_optimization_algorithms
Bremermann's limit - Wikipedia
Quantum error correction - Wikipedia
Coffee Roasting Optimization
Caffeine content in filter coffee brews as a function of degree of roast and extraction yield | Scientific Reports
Scientists examine how roasting affects the perfect brew
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-80385-3
What influences the taste of coffee? | Mistobox Coffee Blog
The Six Sensory Taste Factors
Coffee extraction - Wikipedia
What is HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography) ？ : SHIMADZU (Shimadzu Corporation)

This week we take a dive into the world of good audio quality! After that very important aspect, we investigate carbon dioxide reduction and its application for consumer chemicals, the history of the Voyager mission, and the potential of carbon nano ropes for energy storage applications. Thanks for stopping by for week 6! The bibliography is as follows.
 
Citations:
Air Chemicals:
Fibrous Pb(II)‐Based Coordination Polymer Operable as a Photocatalyst and Electrocatalyst for High‐Rate, Selective CO2‐to‐Formate Conversion
Industrial Photosynthesis: Making Chemicals & Fuels from CO2
Facile Room Temperature Synthesis of Precious‐Metal‐Free Coordination Polymer Photocatalyst for Improved Visible‐Light CO2 Reduction - Suppaso - 2024 - Solar RRL - Wiley Online Library
Record-Breaking Catalyst Turns CO2 Into Fuel With Incredible Efficiency
Best Practice in Photocatalysis: Comparing Rates or Apparent Quantum Yields? | The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Production of formate by CO2 electrochemical reduction and its application in energy storage - Sustainable Energy & Fuels (RSC Publishing)
Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide - Wikipedia
CCS Explained: The Basics - Global CCS Institute
Voyager:
The End Is Near for NASA’s Voyager Probes | WIRED
Contents of the Voyager Golden Record - Wikipedia
What is a Radioisotope Power System? | Department of Energy
Voyager 1 marks 10 years in interstellar space | Space
The Voyager missions | The Planetary Society
The Solar System Family Portrait | The Planetary Society
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46 Years Ago, a Rare Alignment of Our Planets Allowed For An Iconic Space Mission
45 Years Ago: Voyager 2 Begins Its Epic Journey to the Outer Planets and Beyond | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
40 Years Ago: Voyager 1 Explores Saturn - NASA
Shepherd moon - Wikipedia
Radioisotope thermoelectric generator - Wikipedia
Carbon Nano Tube Energy Storage:
Giant nanomechanical energy storage capacity in twisted single-walled carbon nanotube ropes | Nature Nanotechnology
Fabrication of stretchable, flexible conductive thermoplastic polyurethane/graphene composites via foaming - RSC Advances (RSC Publishing)
Rev. B 88, 245402 (2013) - Limits of mechanical energy storage and structural changes in twisted carbon nanotube ropes
Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes 95 - Cheap Tubes
https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/lithium-ion-batteries-energy-density/
Environmental News Network - How Much Energy Can You Store in a Rubber Band?

This week we dive into the world of global news and finance. That may not sound exciting but the developments from the COP 29 conference are quite important on the global scale. We also look into the most recent developments in fusion reactors and their potential as a clean energy source. Finally, we investigate how dinosaur poop can answer all the world's questions (if all of the world's questions were related to dinosaur dominance that is).
 
I am currently working on fixing the sub-par audio so hopefully, that will be better in the coming weeks. In any case, the citations are as follows.
COP 29:
4 key takeaways from COP29, from climate finance to carbon markets | World Economic Forum
COP15: Nations Adopt Four Goals, 23 Targets for 2030 In Landmark UN Biodiversity Agreement | Convention on Biological Diversity
Trump would withdraw US from Paris climate treaty again, campaign says - POLITICO
Will the US withdraw from the Paris Agreement? An expert’s take on climate policy under Trump | CU Boulder Today | University of Colorado Boulder
Climate Analytics | Fact check: President Trump’s speech on intention…
COP29 key takeaways | Wood Mackenzie
Article 6 can make or break carbon markets at COP29. Here's all you need to know. – Clean Air Task Force
COP29 Recap: Missed Opportunities for Nature and Climate Action
Carbon emission trading - Wikipedia
Fusion Reactors:
How the world’s biggest laser smashed a nuclear-fusion record
Laser facility flickers into life | Nature
Nuclear-fusion lab achieves ‘ignition’: what does it mean?
Nuclear-fusion breakthrough: this physicist helped to achieve the first-ever energy gain
Achievement of Target Gain Larger than Unity in an Inertial Fusion Experiment
History of Fusion - EUROfusion
Timeline of nuclear fusion - Wikipedia
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/135642main_balance_trifold21.pdf?emrc=5b9a71
Tokamak - Wikipedia
National Ignition Facility - Wikipedia
Inertial confinement fusion - Wikipedia
Why We Invested in Type One Energy as the Future of Fusion Power | TDK Ventures
Dino Poop:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1469-185X.2009.00094.x
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.22649
https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41586-024-08265-4/MediaObjects/41586_2024_8265_MOESM1_ESM.pdf
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03889-y
High-resolution synchrotron-based X-ray microtomography as a tool to unveil the three-dimensional neuronal architecture of the brain | Scientific Reports
Canon : Canon Technology | Canon Science Lab | Synchrotron Radiation
Phase Shift | Definition, Formula & Examples - Lesson | Study.com

This week we dive into a wide array of topics. First, we investigate the most recent discoveries of the Chang' E-6 mission to the far side of the moon and just how they could age a rock. Following that a rat study from the University of Richmond brought incredible wisdom and fun. Finally, development into another form of clean energy is underway with the improvement in the ability to store hydrogen for use in combustion engines and fuel cells! All that and just a little more in this episode.
 
The citations are as follows:
Dark Side of The Moon Citations:
A sample of the Moon’s far side retrieved by Chang’e-6 contains 2.83-billion-year-old basalt | Science
Distribution of Radioactive Heat Sources and Thermal History of the Moon - Laneuville - 2018 - Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets - Wiley Online Library
China lands on moon's far side in historic sample-retrieval mission | Reuters
Recent Volcanoes on the Moon?
Moon's Volcanic Activity as Recent as 120 Million Years Ago, Study Suggests : ScienceAlert
Chang'e-6 Sample Studies Cast Light on the Moon's Far Side----Chinese Academy of Sciences
A Brief Introduction to Zircon Geochronology — Geological Society of the Oregon Country (GSOC)
Insightful Wisdom from Rats:
Scientists taught rats to drive – now they love getting behind the wheel | The Independent
I’m a neuroscientist who taught rats to drive − their joy suggests how anticipating fun can enrich human life
Rats find driving tiny cars relaxing | indy100 | indy100
Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats - Ars Technica
Residential green space in childhood is associated with lower risk of psychiatric disorders from adolescence into adulthood | PNAS
Enriched Environment - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Enriched environment exposure accelerates rodent driving skills - ScienceDirect
DHEA Enhances Emotion Regulation Neurocircuits and Modulates Memory for Emotional Stimuli - PMC
Scientists successfully train rats to drive tiny cars - YouTube
Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers:
Exploring new liquid organic hydrogen carrier materials for a safer, more transportable energy source
Benzyl-methylbenzyl-benzene: Improving hydrogen storage and release performance of dibenzyltoluene based liquid organic hydrogen carrier - ScienceDirect
The energy density of hydrogen: a unique property
Benzyl-methylbenzyl-benzene: Improving hydrogen storage and release performance of dibenzyltoluene based liquid organic hydrogen carrier - ScienceDirect
(PDF) A Review on Solid State Hydrogen Storage Material

Join us this week to learn how the James Webb Space Telescope is causing physicists to question their very existence, how oil companies' technological developments can be used to extract the earth's energy, and how scientists are desperately trying to make tomatoes sweet again.
 
I have been granted unlimited text so now I can input the citations. They are as follows:
Dark Matter Citations:
Astronomers’ theory of galaxy formation may be upended The Daily The Daily
James Webb Space Telescope discovers mysterious 'red monster' galaxies so large they shouldn't exist | Live Science
NASA telescope discovers creepy ultra-massive ‘Red Monster’ galaxies in the early universe | The Independent
Accelerated formation of ultra-massive galaxies in the first billion years | Nature
Discovery of three galactic 'red monsters' in early universe challenges current models of galaxy formation
'Red monsters' challenge what we know about the early universe - Earth.com
How does Dark Matter form a halo? - Physics Stack Exchange
gravity - Dark Matter's effect on galaxy structure - Astronomy Stack Exchange
Lambda-CDM model - Wikipedia
Enhanced Geothermal Energy Citations:
Geothermal power is vying to be a major player in the world’s clean-energy future
South Korea’s most-destructive quake probably triggered by geothermal plant
A new approach to preventing human-induced earthquakes | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
How many megawatts are needed to power a city of 1 million people? - Quora
Geothermal Energy Factsheet | Center for Sustainable Systems
Fracking 101
Enhanced Geothermal Systems | Department of Energy
CRISPR Tomatoes
How CRISPR could yield the next blockbuster crop
CRISPR builds a big tomato that’s actually sweet
Releasing a sugar brake generates sweeter tomato without yield penalty | Nature
What is CRISPR? A bioengineer explains | Stanford Report
Super-tomato shows what plant scientists can do
Gene editing in legal limbo in Europe | Nature
Daily briefing: Big tomatoes get sweeter thanks to CRISPR editing
Get to know: CRISPR gene editing pros a/vb -nd cons | IDT

Happy early birthday ChatGPT! Looking back has been great but what are the downsides of AI and its impact? Also, how a college student stumbled across an ancient Mayan civilization while doomscrolling LiDAR databases. Finally, vegetable oil might be the next liquid gold in its metamorphosis to biodiesel. All that and more in this weeks curious weekly investigation.
 
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This week we take a dive into the world of California as they ban a multitude of food additives in response to a compilation of studies, look up at the sun - burn our eyes especially badly - to learn about the solar cycle, and investigate current developments in next generation solar panel technology that will help in the transition to clean energy sources!