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6 Habits Kids Raised By Mentally & Emotionally Distant Parents Carry Into Adulthood

6 Habits Kids Raised By Mentally & Emotionally Distant Parents Carry Into Adulthood

Published by Jenni Sidey

Some parents, while physically being there with their children, may not be emotionally present. This results in kids developing lifelong habits that are actually just coping mechanisms for the mental and emotional distance they experienced growing up.  Having emotionally closed-off parents can mess with a child’s ability to regulate their own emotions. From self-esteem and confidence issues to suppressing their own emotions to avoid feeling like a burden, these habits, when left unchecked, can become unhealthy traits that mess with everything from relationships to professional success. Habits kids raised by emotionally closed-off parents carry with them into adulthood: 1. They talk negatively about themselves shurkin_son | Shutterstock Kids who grew up with emotionally distant parents tend to have low self-esteem. The safety and love they needed in those formative years were missing, and instead of growing up with a strong sense of self, they grew up feeling less than.  When a parent offers emotional support, it helps kids accept their emotions and regulate themselves when they feel out of control. However, when they don’t have …

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope launches to map billions of galaxies and hunt distant worlds

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope launches to map billions of galaxies and hunt distant worlds

Published by Jenni Sidey

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy and is now beginning its journey toward a position about one million miles from Earth. Roman combines Hubble-like sharpness with a field of view at least 100 times larger, allowing it to survey enormous numbers of galaxies, stars and planets. The mission will investigate dark energy and dark matter, search for thousands of exoplanets and build huge public datasets that could reveal objects astronomers have never seen before. A space telescope built to see the universe on an enormous scale has left Earth. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off at 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 30, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Roman separated from the rocket’s second stage at 7:57 a.m. and began flying independently toward the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, or L2, about one million miles from Earth. Mission controllers received telemetry from Roman shortly after launch, and NASA later confirmed that its solar panels and lower instrument …

New quantum chip design uses phonons to link distant qubits

New quantum chip design uses phonons to link distant qubits

Published by Jenni Sidey

Researchers proposed Quantum Phononic Links, which use sound-like vibrations called phonons to transmit quantum information between distant qubits on a semiconductor chip. The architecture combines hole spin qubits with strained germanium on silicon, potentially creating compact connections that range from less than a micrometer to several centimeters. The design could reduce bulky connecting hardware and improve quantum chip layouts, but researchers must still test whether the modeled system can preserve quantum information in real devices. A future quantum computer may need millions of qubits working together. Most current chips struggle with a much smaller problem. Their qubits can usually communicate only with nearby neighbors. That short reach creates a serious obstacle. A useful processor must coordinate information across an entire chip without filling it with bulky connecting hardware. Researchers at the University of Warwick and NRC Canada have proposed a different route. Their concept uses tiny sound-like vibrations to carry quantum information between distant qubits. They call the system Quantum Phononic Links, or QPLs. It combines a new chip architecture with compressively strained germanium grown …

A Line Held Tight – miners, mechs and mismanagement on a distant planet | Games

A Line Held Tight – miners, mechs and mismanagement on a distant planet | Games

Published by Sam Flores

It is rare for video games to feature industrial action as a key theme, but it does happen. There’s the shady Dockworker’s Union in Disco Elysium and the Orbital Workers Union in space adventure Tacoma; then there is Lynx, the evil union-bashing corp in Hardspace: Shipbreaker. Soon we can add A Line Held Tight, a visual novel that puts workers’ rights – and workers’ lives – at the very centre of the narrative. In the distant future, a colony of miners digs far beneath the surface of an isolated planet, searching for veins of some exotic ore, protected from the poisonous atmosphere within giant mech suits. But the working conditions are woeful and as a strike looms, an unpopular employee named the Canary must decide whether or not to stand with colleagues and fight against suppression. The player, of course, takes on the role of the Canary, navigating personal as well as political struggles in a world rendered in stark monochrome. Stark choices … A Line Held Tight. Illustration: Humble Grove Although there are clear …

Quantum bath keeps distant qubits entangled without human control

Quantum bath keeps distant qubits entangled without human control

Published by Jenni Sidey

Two qubits sat half a meter apart, with no direct link between them. Yet correlated microwave photons pushed them into a shared quantum state, offering a new route to entanglement without constant intervention. Distributed entanglement connects quantum bits across separate locations. It could support larger quantum processors and networks that move quantum information between distant modules. Most existing approaches require carefully timed control pulses, repeated measurements or post-selection. The ISTA method instead uses the qubits’ environment as the entangling mechanism. Future quantum computing will require correlations between distant modules. This feature, known as distributed entanglement, has traditionally relied on active control and repeated measurements. (CREDIT: ISTA) “In this work, we aimed to overcome this mismatch between the readily available and the practically useful forms of entanglement,” said PhD student Alejandro Andrés-Juanes to The Brighter Side of News. “By stabilizing the entangled states remotely, our approach is fully autonomous and requires no active control or measurement.” A quantum bath that creates order The experiment used two transmon qubits, a common type of superconducting quantum bit. Each …

A cosmic gateway near Earth may connect us to other distant worlds

A cosmic gateway near Earth may connect us to other distant worlds

Published by Jenni Sidey

The solar system sits inside a vast pocket of hot, thin gas. However, that nearby structure has never looked especially simple. Fresh X-ray mapping now suggests the Local Hot Bubble is rough-edged and stretched. It is also still carrying signs of the violent events that built it. Using data from the eROSITA telescope, researchers produced one of the clearest large-scale views yet of the soft X-ray glow that surrounds the Sun. Their analysis points to a local cavity that is not a neat sphere at all. Rather, it is a lopsided, jagged region that opens more easily away from the Milky Way’s crowded mid-plane. In fact, it may connect to neighboring cavities through narrow channels. The work also strengthens the case that this soft X-ray glow is truly local. For years, astronomers have had to sort it from another source of similar radiation, solar wind charge exchange. This process can create X-rays when particles from the Sun interact with surrounding neutral atoms. Because eROSITA observed during solar minimum and from the Sun-Earth L2 point, about …

Euclid finds 31 distant quasars dating back 800 million years

Euclid finds 31 distant quasars dating back 800 million years

Published by Jenni Sidey

Euclid has turned up a long-sought population of ancient quasars, including the most distant one yet seen. As a result, it has started to change how astronomers study the Universe’s first giant black holes. The European Space Agency telescope found 31 new quasars dating to a time when the cosmos was less than 800 million years old. Of these, twelve sit at redshift 7 or higher. That means their light comes from the first 770 million years after the Big Bang. Two go even farther back. The most distant, EUCL J172902.75+641018.1, has a redshift of about 7.77. This places it just 662 million years into cosmic history. A second, EUCL J125308.55+705432.3, sits at about 7.69. That matters because quasars at these distances are both rare and revealing. A quasar forms during a short, violent stage in a galaxy’s life. It appears when matter spirals into the central supermassive black hole and releases huge amounts of energy. The glare can outshine the rest of the galaxy by hundreds or even thousands of times. Therefore, quasars are …

JWST reveals why some distant galaxies suddenly stop forming stars

JWST reveals why some distant galaxies suddenly stop forming stars

Published by Jenni Sidey

Distant galaxies that abruptly stopped making stars have puzzled astronomers for years. About 9 billion years ago, during one of the busiest periods in cosmic history, many massive galaxies were still building stars at a furious pace. Yet a smaller group had already slammed on the brakes. New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that, in many cases, those sudden shutdowns were not gentle. Instead, they may have followed violent collisions. These collisions left behind compact, disturbed remnants. The work, led by researchers at the University of Nottingham and published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, examined a large sample of recently quenched galaxies. These are systems that had rapidly stopped forming stars and were caught in transition. Those galaxies are valuable because they offer a snapshot of what happens near the moment when star formation switches off. “This was the epoch of peak activity in the Universe, when many of the most massive galaxies we see today were formed,” said Professor Omar Almaini, who led the team behind the study. …

The most distant lensing cluster reveals a dark matter surprise

The most distant lensing cluster reveals a dark matter surprise

Published by Jenni Sidey

All across the Universe, the one force that matters the most on cosmic scales is gravitation. From a nearly perfectly uniform past, initially tiny imperfections — just a fraction-of-a-percent denser than average — eventually grew into the massive cosmic structures we see today: star clusters, galaxies, groups of galaxies, and even stupendously large galaxy clusters. While one such early cluster, XLSSC 122, had been previously imaged and identified with the Hubble Space Telescope, the extraordinary vision of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealed so much more, including the unexpected. Sure, it’s an incredibly massive cluster: weighing in at about 300 trillion solar masses, or hundreds of times the mass of the Milky Way galaxy. In addition, it’s very far away: possessing a redshift of z = 1.98, which corresponds to a time just 3.3 billion years after the Big Bang, or 10.5 billion years ago. This big, organized, evolved object was already mature, and was mature at a time when most other clusters were still actively forming. But with JWST’s power, scientists were also …

Distant star TOI-5882 appears to have swallowed a planet

Distant star TOI-5882 appears to have swallowed a planet

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TOI-5882 looks, at first glance, like an ordinary sun-like star. However, its outer layers hold more lithium than astronomers would expect in a star at this stage of life. This chemical oddity now points to a dramatic possibility. Sometime in its recent past, the star likely swallowed a planet. That star sits about 1,300 light-years away and is still only an early subgiant. This means it has begun to move beyond the main part of its life without yet swelling into a red giant. This matters because stars this age usually lose surface lithium over time. Their outer layers deepen and mix with hotter interior regions where lithium is destroyed. As a result, a strong lithium signal is not supposed to linger. For Brooke Kotten of the University of Michigan, that made TOI-5882 an especially useful target. “You are what you eat, right?” said Kotten, lead author of the report in The Astrophysical Journal. “We know that there’s much more lithium in planetary material than there is in stars. So if a star eats a …