Good morning, this is Zelda, and today I'm happy to be back with a new episode of the Geneva Solutions podcast. I'll discuss gender and technology with Girls in Tech Switzerland. And it will give us a chance to consider the changes for women in science with the story of the British astrophysicist, Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
Finally, we will see that things are moving on the cybersecurity front with a call for an international Data and Security forum.
Very rare decay of a beauty meson involving an electron and positron observed at LHCb.
Intriguing new result from the LHCb experiment at CERN.
The LHCb experiment at CERN has announced new results which, if confirmed, would suggest hints of a violation of the Standard Model of particle physics - the theory of describing three of the four known fundamental forces in the universe. The results focus on the potential violation of lepton flavour universality, the idea that all three types of charged lepton particles – electrons, muons and taus – interact in the same way with other particles.
Sometimes, news collide and generate fascinating questions.
Like last week, when reading in the MIT Technology Review (see below) that scientists in Israel “have grown a mouse embryo in an artificial womb for as long as 11 or 12 days, about half the animal’s natural gestation period”. This advance, being part “of an explosion of new techniques and ideas for studying early development”, is described in the journal Nature which, in the same edition, reports a leap forward, by two other research groups, in creating “artificial human embryos”, which they grew for about 10 days in the lab. ”Several kinds of artificial models of embryos have been described before, writes the Review, but those described today are among the most complete, because they possess the cells needed to form a placenta.”
Ocean protection needs a spirit of compromise.
World leaders are expected to gather for meetings of the United Nations conventions on biological diversity and climate to set future agendas.
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