Sci-Psi Marvel: 1000 patents will get WSJ consideration; AI Jedi hacks N. Korea’s “stunning” hackers; Did Euclid ‘beat’ Einstein to Relativity? Mind introspects throughout REM sleep; Knots, braids & particles; far more!
By Terry Poulos, Particular to the Hellenic Information of America
1000 PATENTS! And counting. The Wall Road Journal on July 24 ran a feature on “The Scientist With 1000 patents fueling a drug powerhouse…At Regeneron, George Yancopoulos is the uncommon scientist and government who drives progress with discoveries as an alternative of acquisitions.” Yancopoulos is the cofounder, president and chief scientific officer of Nasdaq-listed Regeneron Prescription drugs in New York.
UNCOVERS “SHOCKING” HACKS: In early August, Wired journal profiled Thessaloniki-based researcher Vangelis Stykas, a sort of ‘AI Jedi’ who “For almost two years has maintained entry to North Korean hackers’ servers,” writes Wired, which provides “His work exhibits they pulled off intrusions in a stunning variety of methods throughout the globe.” Stykas, who on this capability may be labeled a ‘hacker of hackers,’ is cofounder and CTO of Kumio.ai, an agentic synthetic intelligence, cybersecurity and significant infrastructure builder.
SCI-AM PROFILES ANOTHER GREEK SCIENTIST: That is the second profile of a Greek feminine scientist in two months by Scientific American. Hellenic girls scientists are on πῦρ! Doctor-scientist Christina V. Theodoris of Gladstone Institutes and the College of California, San Francisco is among the journal’s July profiles. Theodoris and her crew “use AI to look at gene-activity knowledge from cells throughout a variety of human tissues,” writes SA. “They’ll determine which genes are liable for launching particular illnesses or situations, work that she says could be infeasible with out the AI instruments.” Moreover, SA states “Theodoris estimates that in 5 to 10 years we’ll see wonderful progress in utilizing AI to determine the underlying genetic causes of illness and devising therapies for them.” In June, SA profiled astrophysicist Erini Lambrides of NASA’s Goddard Area Program.
GENETIC BIOINFORMATION: UK-based researcher Evangelia Petsalaki, PhD in structural bioinformatics, and collaborators revealed a paper on July 1 on how “Organic Community Group, Not Generic Graph Topology, Drives Graph-Primarily based Gene Essentiality Prediction.” Her group research cell signaling in wholesome and illness situations.
KNOTS, BRAIDS, PARTICLES: Geometric topologist Ioannis Diamantis, assistant professor of arithmetic at Maastricht in Germany, is making a reputation for himself (almost 30,000 LinkedIn followers) within the self-discipline of mathematical knots and braids. His newest paper is titled “Knotoids, pseudo knotoids, Braidoids and pseudo braidoids on the torus.” Lately, many uncanny connections have been uncovered that point out topological knots could be analogues of quantum particles. In a wierd twist, Diamantis and this columnist (a fractal geometer artist) coincidentally collaborated – independently – with one of many world’s main knot theorists. The cosmos simply could be tethered in spite of everything. To be revisited.
BRAIN TURNS INWARD DURING REM: Cognitive scientist Andria Palentritou of the College of Lausanne is first co-author of a current study about REM (deep) sleep and the way the mind regularly turns inward and disassociates sensitivity to indicators and noise from the surface world. Amongst different issues, the analysis has potential functions for discerning if coma sufferers could be misdiagnosed and as an alternative undergo different cognitive disfunction.
INFRARED CONTACT LENSES: Utilizing nanotechnology, Chinese language scientists are closing in on useful infrared contact lenses that may enable army to forgo cumbersome evening imaginative and prescient headsets. Night time coloration imaginative and prescient may additionally be doable. Texas A&M Professor Peter Rentzepis, who’s carried out related analysis, was quoted within the Could 31 version of New Scientist concerning the Chinese language analysis and present cutting-edge.
ABIO VS BIOGENESIS:Dwell Science author Stephanie Pappas in July educated readers on the phrase “abiogenesis,” translating to “the emergence of life from nonliving matter via chemical processes.” The phrase is a conjunction of two historic Greek phrases – ἀ which implies ‘no or with out,’ and ‘γένεσις’ which implies genesis, origin, delivery or creation. Biogenesis is life emanating from preexisting life. Pappas can also be a frequent contributor to Scientific American and The Monitor…Malaysia-based physicist Eleni Petrakou free lances for SA. Her areas of focus are particle physics and astrophysics…Quanta Journal author Konstantin Kakaes in July wrote a function on the recipient of the 2026 Fields Medal (usually known as “the Nobel of Arithmetic,” an award emblazoned with a picture of Archimedes). Kakaes can also be the creator of The Pioneer Detectives, a 2013 e-book about area exploration and science.
NATIONAL APPOINTMENT: Professor Christina Economos, Ph.D, who doubles as Dean at Tufts College, was just lately elected as a member of the Nationwide Academy of Drugs. The press release states she’s “a global chief in analysis into youngsters’s vitamin, well being, and weight problems prevention.”
EUCLID AHEAD OF EINSTEIN?! The Antikythera Mechanism (c. 200 BCE) and Archimedes Palimpsest (c. 225 BCE however re-scribed c. 900 CE) symbolize extant empirical, incontrovertible proof historic Greeks had been millennia forward of their time in science, arithmetic and expertise. However was certainly one of them prematurely of Albert Einstein’s miracle papers of 1905 and 1915 CE? Polymath researcher Selena Ballerina, who writes The Quantastic Journal on Medium, lays out a compelling argument that Euclid (330-270 BCE), who formalized the axioms of nearly all recognized arithmetic of his day, might have additionally been knocking on the door of Particular and Normal Relativity, the latter a geometrical concept of gravity. Mathematicians possess the eager instinct requisite to tease out such hidden connections. In actual fact, Einstein’s chief competitor within the race for the equations of Normal Relativity was David Hilbert, the premiere mathematician of the primary half of the 20th century, and a person who had almost zero formal physics training. Perhaps it’s no coincidence Hilbert – mirroring Euclid – would later lead a worldwide program to agency up the foundations of recent arithmetic (be aware: Euclid’s fifth postulate, additionally known as the “Parallel Postulate,” stays wanting empirically confirmed; check it out). The Euclid-Hilbert correlation is a primary instance of historical past on a Chronos time loop.
NOLAN’S AI TROJAN HORSE POKE AT GREEKS: “Odyssey” movie director Christopher Nolan, having a little bit of enjoyable however maybe additionally hinting at Greek outrage over his adaptation, just lately informed an interviewer “I feel AI is a Computer virus that everyone is aware of the Greeks are inside,” writes TechCrunch.
Terry Poulos is a author, artist and fractal geometer who synthesizes theoretical physics, quantity concept, archaeology and historic and fashionable expertise. His artwork and science musings may be seen at Scientiquity.com and Scientiquity.medium.com
George Yancopoulos (Picture credit score: Wikimedia by Gacggt)Christina Economos, Ph.D (Picture credit score: Tufts College)
