Usman Ali

PhD Scholar @ NUST/NIMS.
Interests: Materials, Nanoscience, Perovskites, Photovoltaics, Manchester United, Politics.

[🇨🇳XuZhenqing徐祯卿 @XueJia24682]

✨🇨🇳 AI is now a standard class in Chinese primary schools.

Kids learn to use AI tools, solve problems with technology, and understand how it shapes daily life.

It’s not about being a coder — it’s about building digital literacy for the future.

[Jason R. Williams, MD, DABR @jasonwilliamsmd]

We've spent 50 years trying to kill cancer cells. What if the answer was never to kill them but to remind them who they are?

Cancer cells aren't foreign invaders. They're your own cells that lost their identity. They stopped differentiating, stopped maturing, and started growing without limits. Cancer doesn't create anything new. It hijacks normal biology.

Researchers at KAIST in South Korea identified three master regulators, MYB, HDAC2, and FOXA2, keeping colon cancer cells locked in a malignant state. When they silenced all three? The cancer cells differentiated back into normal, healthy tissue. MYC and WNT pathways shut down. In mice, tumors shrank significantly.

No chemo. No radiation. Just reprogramming.

Here's what most people will miss: HDAC2 is a histone deacetylase. It compacts DNA and silences tumor suppressor genes. We already use HDAC inhibitors in our protocols. This isn't new to us. But it's powerful validation.

Cancer and aging are the same problem. Cells that no longer serve the body but learned to hijack the immune system to survive. The answer isn't bigger bombs. It's restoration.

Still preclinical. But the direction is exactly right. Kudos to the @kaistpr team. 👏

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨 SPACE JUST FOUND ITS FIRST SUPERHERO - AND IT’S A FUNGUS FROM CHERNOBYL

Of all the things humanity expected to save astronauts from cosmic radiation, a jet-black mold thriving in the ruins of a nuclear disaster was… not on the bingo card.

Meet Cladosporium sphaerospermum - the Chernobyl fungus that doesn’t just survive radiation, it eats it for breakfast.

Thanks to melanin, it literally turns radiation into energy, like a mushroom-powered solar panel for gamma rays.

On the ISS, this thing grew 20% faster than it does on Earth.

Give it the vacuum of space, microgravity, and a little cosmic hazing? It bulks up like it’s prepping for a Marvel origin story.

Why lug tons of metal into orbit when you could grow your defenses like a cosmic garden wall?

Self-repairing, cheap, lightweight... and feeds on the very thing that kills us

NASA engineers are quietly ecstatic because this flips the entire Mars mission playbook: you don’t transport radiation shielding - you cultivate it.

Picture Moon bases and Martian habitats lined with living, regenerating, radiation-eating walls. A bunker that heals itself, basically.

Within a decade, somebody’s going to propose a full fungal “skin” around spacecraft - a biological exosuit that thickens under stress and patches itself after solar storms.

And when this works? The first true deep-space city won’t be built metal-first.
It’ll be grown.

Source: @nexta_tv, Interesting Engineering

[RTSG News @RTSG_News]

🚨🇨🇳 REPORT: Chinese company CATL is mass-producing its 1st sodium battery.

Experts were previously convinced that Sodium Batteries would not be viable until 2035.

It has the same capacity and size as lithium, at 1/10th the cost, lasts 25 years, runs fine at -30°C, and highly safe.

By December 2025, CATL expects to begin mass production of its Naxtra sodium-ion battery line, which has higher energy density than its current offerings. The company also started mass production of a 24V sodium-ion battery for heavy-duty trucks in July.

Source: China-Global South Project

Follow: @RTSG_News

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

China’s scientists have turned to one of Earth’s oldest materials — bamboo — to solve one of humanity’s newest problems: plastic pollution.

Chinese scientists at Northeast Forestry University have developed a groundbreaking, bamboo-based bioplastic that is as strong as traditional petroleum-based plastic but fully biodegrades in soil within 50 days.

Published in Nature Communications, the research outlines a new method for creating high-performance, sustainable, and recyclable materials from bamboo cellulose.

Every year, the world produces over 400 million tons of plastic, much of it ending up in oceans. If scaled globally, bamboo plastic could eliminate billions of tons of waste.

[Talha Ahmad @talhaahmad967]

Every house is a story waiting to be told.
Each story is etched with the lives of its characters, and every character carries within them a soul.
For every soul, there was once a house, a place that cradled its dreams and whispered its secrets.

[Ather Hameed @ather_hameed]

علی ہجویری رح شام کے وقت عام مریدوں کیلئے درس و تدریس کا اہتمام کرتے تھے
ایک روز ایک مرید نے پوچھا
"حضور اللّٰہ تعالیٰ کی بارگاہ میں افضل ترین عبادت کیا ہے ؟"
حضرت نے فرمایا
"خیرات"
مرید نے دوبارہ عرض کیا
"اور افضل ترین خیرات کیا ہے؟ "
آپ نے فرمایا
"معاف کر دینا"

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[hamza @nothamzafr]

Was reading Surah An’am and there’s a verse that translates to “your Lord has made it obligatory on himself to be merciful to you” and I put my Quran down and took a deep sigh. A higher being who has nothing to gain from me has made it compulsory on HIMSELF to be merciful to me?

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

A couple reflections on the quantum computing breakthrough we just announced...

Most of us grew up learning there are three main types of matter that matter: solid, liquid, and gas. Today, that changed.

After a nearly 20 year pursuit, we’ve created an entirely new state of matter, unlocked by a new class of materials, topoconductors, that enable a fundamental leap in computing.

It powers Majorana 1, the first quantum processing unit built on a topological core.

We believe this breakthrough will allow us to create a truly meaningful quantum computer not in decades, as some have predicted, but in years.

The qubits created with topoconductors are faster, more reliable, and smaller.

They are 1/100th of a millimeter, meaning we now have a clear path to a million-qubit processor.

Imagine a chip that can fit in the palm of your hand yet is capable of solving problems that even all the computers on Earth today combined could not!

Sometimes researchers have to work on things for decades to make progress possible.

It takes patience and persistence to have big impact in the world.

And I am glad we get the opportunity to do just that at Microsoft.

This is our focus: When productivity rises, economies grow faster, benefiting every sector and every corner of the globe.

It’s not about hyping tech; it’s about building technology that truly serves the world.

[Zach Vorhies / Google Whistleblower @Perpetualmaniac]

My god, this paper by that open ai engineer is terrifying.

Everything is about to change.

AI super intelligence by 2027.

[Usman Ali @Usman92Ali]

@ZarrarKhuhro Allah pak magfirat farmaye

[S.L. Kanthan @Kanthan2030]

A doctor in Rome, Italy, performed a surgery on a cancer patient in Beijing, China! 😱

Revolution in healthcare, thanks to telecom, 5G and robotics.

Remote surgery has huge potential.

[Usman Ali @Usman92Ali]

@rebootdude Allah pak magfirat farmaye r sabko sabr e Jameel ata farmayen 🙏

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

Schrödinger's road space: How you can take away space from cars and give them more space at the same time!

(original by @urbanthoughts11, redesigned by @jan_kamensky)

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Livestream of @Neuralink demonstrating “Telepathy” – controlling a computer and playing video games just by thinking

[Neuralink @neuralink]

https://t.co/OMIeGGjYtG

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The color of a meteor depends on its chemical composition.

[حدیث نبوی ﷺ @Islam_Hadees786]

رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے فرمایا :

بیشک جبریل امین علیہ السلام میرے پاس آئے تھے اور انہوں نے کہا : اللہ کرے کہ ( جنت سے ) دور رہے ایسا شخص جو رمضان کا مہینہ پائے اور اپنی مغفرت نہ کروا سکے ، میں نے کہا : آمین ۔ جب میں دوسری سیڑھی پر چڑھا تو جبریل نے کہا :

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