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		<title>Book Review: Fermat&#8217;s Enigma by Simon Singh</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pooja Kashyap]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[More than a decade back I got introduced to Dr. Brian Greene, a professor of physics and mathematics. He is well known for his groundbreaking discoveries in superstring theory. Some of his major contributions include the co-discovery of mirror symmetry and research on changes in the topology of space.  In one of his interviews he said that mathematics is the language for encapsulating the patterns of the universe that we observe. I found the idea quite profound and every time I read the works of Pickover the concept resonates and&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why We Can See 45 Billion Light-Years in a 13.77-Billion-Year-Old Universe</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pooja Kashyap]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The universe is about 13.77 billion years old, so obviously the farthest thing we can see is 13.77 billion light-years away. Since light travels one light-year every year, that sounds like it should be correct. But it isn&#8217;t. The farthest objects we can see are actually about 45 billion light-years away. So the question comes, if the universe is only 13.77 billion years old, how can light from something 45 billion light-years away have reached us? It almost seems like the light must have traveled faster than it should. The&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Toxic Tau Awakens Dormant DNA to Kill Brain Cells in Alzheimer&#8217;s</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pooja Kashyap]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 11:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Zhejiang and Xiamen universities discovered how toxic tau protein clumps reactivate silent DNA to trigger neuron death, and found that blocking a single protein could slow cognitive decline. Scientists from Zhejiang University, Xiamen University, and collaborating institutions have just published a study in Nature Neuroscience that traces a precise molecular chain of events from tau protein buildup all the way to neuron death. More importantly, they think they&#8217;ve spotted a weak link in that chain that could one day be targeted with drugs. We&#8217;ve known for decades that&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Brain Immune Cells Use Calcium Signals to Control Anxiety and Compulsive Behavior</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pooja Kashyap]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 13:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Scientists at the University of Utah have discovered that brain immune cells called microglia use calcium signals to trigger and respond to anxiety and compulsive grooming in mice. Our brain is running a surveillance system around the clock. Not through neurons firing across synapses but through immune cells called microglia. And according to a new study published in Molecular Psychiatry, these tiny cells active participants in how we feel anxiety, develop compulsive habits, and potentially, how things go wrong in disorders like OCD. The research, led by Naveen Nagarajan and&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review: Behave by Robert M. Sapolsky</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pooja Kashyap]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 04:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Robert Sapolsky is a neuroendocrinologist and primatologist at Stanford. He&#8217;s been studying baboons in Kenya for decades, and that gave him solid results to sprinkle across the book.  Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst is, in the simplest terms, an attempt to answer a single question: Why do we do what we do? Specifically, why do we sometimes harm each other, and why, in those other moments, do we show staggering kindness, courage, and sacrifice? It was first published in 2017.  The book is extremely simple&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tesseracts as Data Structures for Understanding High-Dimensional Computing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pooja Kashyap]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is a scene in Interstellar that I have seen multiple times and still not over it. Cooper, having plunged into a black hole, finds himself inside a structure made of infinite bookshelf corridors. The effect of light streaming through the slats and time bending into something he can physically touch is simply… spectacular! The monolith-like beings have given him a tesseract. Not as a gift but as a tool, it’s a multi-dimensional interface to navigate information across time and space. He reaches through the shelves and nudges gravitational data&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Saturn’s Magnetosphere Is Completely Different from Earth’s</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pooja Kashyap]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[New data from the Cassini–Huygens shows that Saturn’s magnetic cusps are mostly clustered on one side instead of being evenly spread out. This surprising finding suggests that Saturn’s fast rotation changes how its magnetic field interacts with space, challenging what scientists previously believed. Let’s say two planets are being bombarded by the same cosmic wind. Our first obvious expectation would be that they’d react the same way, but in reality it’s not so. Scientists using data from NASA&#8217;s Cassini spacecraft have discovered that its magnetosphere, the invisible magnetic shield protecting&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>MIT’s Tiny Implant Could Replace Daily Insulin Injections for Type 1 Diabetes</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pooja Kashyap]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[MIT engineers just cracked a 30-year-old problem, they kept the transplanted insulin-producing cells alive inside the body without suppressing the immune system.&#160; This problem has haunted medicine for decades. To understand that, let’s first consider a situation, you wake up, grab your insulin pen, and inject yourself before breakfast. You&#8217;ll do this again at lunch, followed by dinner, again before bed. For millions of people living with type 1 diabetes, this four-times-daily ritual is just the price of staying alive. But what if the “four-times-daily ritual” is not required? That&#8217;s&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Scientists Discover Safer Alternative to Opioids for Chronic Pain</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pooja Kashyap]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Researchers discover how morphine relieves pain in the brain and create a gene therapy that mimics its effects without addiction risks. A breakthrough that could transform chronic pain treatment. You hit your toe, and right away it feels like the worst pain ever. But the strange thing is, the pain isn’t exactly the same as the actual injury. Scientists say pain works in a weird way, it’s not just about what your body feels. There’s also an emotional part to it, like a sudden fear or discomfort that makes you&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review: Understanding the Universe by Dr. Don Lincoln</title>
		<link>https://techietonics.com/thinking-turf/book-review-understanding-the-universe-by-don-lincoln.html</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pooja Kashyap]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dr. Don Lincoln&#8216;s Understanding the Universe: From Quarks to the Cosmos (2004) is a masterwork of scientific exposition that takes readers on a journey spanning 2,500 years. It starts with early thinkers like Democritus and goes all the way to modern particle physics. What makes this book special is not just that Lincoln knows a lot (he is a physicist at Fermilab), but that he explains things in a way that helps readers follow the journey of discovery. He doesn’t just give answers, he shows how scientists figured things out&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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