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Just a week after its first images were shown to the world, the James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered a galaxy that existed 13.5 billion years ago, a scientist analyzing the data said Wednesday. Known as GLASS-z13, this galaxy dates back to 300 million years after the Big Bang, about 100 million years earlier than anything previously identified, Rohan Naidu of the Harvard Center for Astrophysics told AFP. “We are potentially seeing the light of the most distant star that anyone has ever seen,” he said. The further away the object is from us, the longer it will take for its light to reach us, and so gazing back into the distant universe is looking into the deep past. JWST has the potential to break records, discovering galaxies that existed when the universe was only 300 million years old! Light from GLASS-z13 took 13.4 billion years to reach us, but the distance between us is now 33 billion light years due to the expansion of the universe! pic.twitter.com/5AcOBwHuO...

A team of data scientists led by the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities has published the first comprehensive global dataset of lakes and reservoirs on Earth showing how they have changed over the past 30 years. The data will provide environmental researchers with new information about land and freshwater use and how lakes and reservoirs are affected by humans and climate change. This research is also a major advance in machine learning techniques. A paper highlighting the Reservoir and Lake Surface Area Timeseries (ReaLSAT) data set was recently published in Scientific Data, a peer-reviewed open access journal published by Nature. Study highlights include: The RealLSAT dataset contains location and surface area variations of 681,137 lakes and reservoirs greater than 0.1 square kilometers south of 50 degrees north latitude. The previous most comprehensive database, called HydroLAKES, has identified only 245,420 lakes and reservoirs for this part of the world and the minimum s...

Some of the brightest and most energetic objects in the Universe are the mystery source of high-energy cosmic neutrinos, new research has confirmed. A comprehensive analysis has been convincing enough to link the galaxies that host the fiery cores known as blazars with these mysterious particles. It’s a result that provides a completely unexpected solution to a problem that has kept astrophysicists scratching their heads for years. “The results provide, for the first time, irrefutable observational evidence that the PeVatron blazar sub-sample is a source of extragalactic neutrinos and thus an accelerator of cosmic rays,” said astrophysicist Sara Buson of the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg in Germany. Neutrinos are the odd little things at the best of times. These subatomic particles are ubiquitous and are among the most abundant in the Universe. However, their mass is almost zero, they are electrically neutral, and they interact very little with anything els...

Are period tracking apps a privacy concern? Andrea Ford, University of Edinburgh & Laura Lazaro Cabrera, Privacy International In late June, a law that was construed as granting the right to have an abortion in the US – Roe vs. Wade – was overturned, leaving decisions on the legality of the procedure for each state. Since then, half of US states have made moves to ban or restrict abortion, which technically means any woman who seeks the procedure can be prosecuted. After Roe vs Wade, a viral message quickly spread online, telling women to delete any period tracking app they were using. But why is this app a concern? Julia Ravey talks to Andrea Ford, a medical and cultural anthropologist at the University of Edinburgh… Andrea- There have been many concerns that have arisen since the news in the US. The concern is that the data in your app could potentially be used as incriminating evidence, if you were in a situation where you were mistreated for having an abortion. So...

Retail sales rose 1.0 percent last month, the Commerce Department said, exceeding a Reuters poll forecast of 0.8 percent. Data for May was revised up to show sales fell 0.1 percent instead of the previously reported 0.3 percent. Retail sales increased 8.4 percent on a year-on-year basis and 18 percent above their pre-pandemic trend. While the retail sales data was laudable, economists were cautious about pointing out that a big reason for the gains was from a spike in gasoline prices. “Yes, consumers spend more, but they don’t take home the same amount of goods,” First Trust said in a note. “Adjusted for the consumer price index (CPI), retail sales fell 0.3 percent in June.” Separately, consumers reduced their inflation expectations in July, a fourth report from the University of Michigan showed. The yield on the US 10-year note fell 4 basis points to 2.92 percent as of 4:59 p.m. in New York. Two years it was at 3.12 percent. Bill Adams, chief economist ...

Mooners and Shakers is sponsored by Dacxi, the world’s first purpose-built Crypto Wealth platform. Bitcoin lost a nice, round, $20K psychological mark earlier, but has managed to find some decent support above $19.6k, at the time of writing. Meanwhile, the CPI inflation data on Wednesday July 13 in the US, and all the technical analysis in the world today may not be able to keep up with the results. Is it as simple as: lower-than-expected inflation, rising crypto/risk assets; high inflation, crypto assets/risk down? Perhaps, despite the old high inflation “entry price” argument is also floating again. Perhaps the real kicker will come when the US Federal Reserve announces its response to the July 26-27 CPI inflation data with the possibility of another 0.75bp rate hike. Right, got it – inflation… macro sucks right now… is there anything else scaring the market, other than crypto also doing its best to burn internally through the “contagion” effect of Terra LUNA, Cels...

The fact that food prices in Australia have soared this year is not new news for most people. Key points: Deakin University research shows lettuce, broccoli and tomato prices have soared Amid other cost of living pressures, more people are seeking help with food costs There are calls for a national strategy to ensure Australians can access healthy food But tracking data for 28 specific grocery items over the past few years shows which product prices have gone up the most, which have fallen and which have remained stable. Figures from Deakin University’s Institute of Health Transformation support the most eye-catching increase – the skyrocketing price of lettuce. Data shows lettuce has jumped 150 percent in 12 months, up from the national average of $2 per head for icebergs last year to $5 in 2022. All kinds of leafy greens have disappeared from store aisles in recent months, including broccoli, which had the second biggest jump. It jumped from $6.90 per kilo in June last year to $...

Research led by Monash University and RMIT in Melbourne have figured out how to create advanced photonic integrated circuits that build bridges between data superhighways, revolutionizing the connectivity of today’s optical chips and replacing bulky 3D optics with thin slices of silicon wafers. This development, published in the prestigious journal Nature Photonics has the ability to accelerate the global advancement of artificial intelligence and offers significant real-world applications such as: Safer driverless cars capable of instantly interpreting their surroundings Enable AI to diagnose medical conditions faster Makes natural language processing faster for apps like Google Homes, Alexa, and Siri. Smaller switch to reconfigure the optical network that carries our internet to get data where it is needed faster Whether it’s turning on the TV or keeping the satellites on track, photonics (the science of light) is changing the way we live. Photonic chips can turn large b...

Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has revealed plans to build Australia’s largest battery storage installation – 2000MWh – to support a large data storage center close to Brisbane in southeast Queensland. The 800MW/2000MWh “Supernode” battery project proposes to support data centers, provide service that can be delivered to the grid, strengthen additional renewable energy capacity, and act as a “stop” to reduce the risk of blackouts in Queensland. The project is separate from the Lockyer 1,000MWh battery storage project Quinbrook is also seeking to build in Queensland, as part of plans to convert peak gas generation plans to battery storage. This project is one of a number of large-scale battery storage projects currently being proposed across Australia, and would be the largest if proceeded now, although it could also be terminated by competing projects. Quinbrook said the project site, adjacent to the South Pine substation in Brendale, offers unmatched...

Nature Photonics (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-022-01020-z”> Nature Photonics (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-022-01020-z” width=”800″ height=”530″/> Conceptual diagram of a self-calibrating integrated broadband PIC. Credit: Xingyuan Xu et al, Nature Photonics (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-022-01020-z Research led by Monash and RMIT University in Melbourne has found a way to create advanced photonic integrated circuits that build bridges between data superhighways, revolutionizing the connectivity of today’s optical chips and replacing bulky 3D optics with thin slices of silicon wafers. This development, published in the journal Nature Photonics has the ability to accelerate the global advancement of artificial intelligence and offers significant real-world applications such as: Safer driverless cars capable of instantly interpreting their surroundings Enable AI to diagnose medical conditions faste...

The personal details of more than 100 Australian citizens – including former federal lawmakers – were among those exposed by hackers in a major leak of records stolen from Chinese police authorities. Key points: Hacker tries to sell personal information for 10 bitcoins (about $300,000) Leaked police report sheds light on the treatment of Uyghurs and other minorities It is believed that this data set covers more than 20 years Last week, a hacker claimed on an online forum that they had stolen 1 billion records, mostly belonging to Chinese nationals, in an ongoing effort to sell the information for 10 bitcoins, or nearly $300,000. The report provides rare insight into how the authorities are cracking down on political dissent and persecuting minorities in China, including Uyghurs and Falun Gong practitioners. The hacker posted three sample datasets online, totaling 750,000 individual records. The ABC summoned the 20 people in China identified in the leak to confirm the authent...