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Oct 31, 2018

A ‘mind-boggling’ telescope observation has revealed the point of no return for our galaxy’s monster black hole

Posted by in category: cosmology

Telescopes just got the best-ever look at gas circling the edge of a supermassive black hole — a point of no return just before the event horizon.

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Oct 31, 2018

Has new ghost particle manifested at Large Hadron Collider?

Posted by in category: particle physics

‘Something terribly new’ goes bump in data yet to be confirmed by Atlas detector.

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Oct 31, 2018

Europe shows first cards in €1-billion quantum bet

Posted by in category: quantum physics

The Quantum Flagship was first announced in 2016, and on 29 October, the commission announced the first batch of fund recipients. The 20 international consortia, each of which includes public research institutions as well as industry, will receive a total of €132 million over 3 years for technology-demonstration projects.


One of the most ambitious EU ‘Flagship’ schemes yet has picked 20 projects, aiming to turn weird physics into useful products.

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Oct 31, 2018

New Theory of Intelligence May Disrupt AI and Neuroscience

Posted by in categories: neuroscience, robotics/AI

Numenta’s “The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence”.

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Oct 30, 2018

190 universities just launched 600 free online courses. Here’s the full list

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, computing, education, engineering, health

If you haven’t heard, universities around the world are offering their courses online for free (or at least partially free). These courses are collectively called MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses.

In the past six years or so, over 800 universities have created more than 10,000 of these MOOCs. And I’ve been keeping track of these MOOCs the entire time over at Class Central, ever since they rose to prominence.

In the past four months alone, 190 universities have announced 600 such free online courses. I’ve compiled a list of them and categorized them according to the following subjects: Computer Science, Mathematics, Programming, Data Science, Humanities, Social Sciences, Education & Teaching, Health & Medicine, Business, Personal Development, Engineering, Art & Design, and finally Science.

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Oct 30, 2018

Discovery of cancer ‘kill code’ could inspire new treatments

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

I have always said the trick with being diagnosed with cancer is living long enough to see newer and better therapies coming out to help you outlive your own diagnosis:


Scientists at Northwestern University have discovered a “kill code” in every cell of the body that’s triggered by chemotherapy and that causes cancerous cells to self-destruct. What’s more, they’ve learned enough about the code that they’ve figured out how to trigger it without chemo—a finding that they believe could lead to new therapies.

The discovery, reported in the journals Nature Communications and eLife, is a code that’s found in both large and small ribonucleic acids (RNAs). The researchers also have early evidence that the small RNAs, called microRNAs, can be introduced into cells to trigger the kill switch.

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Oct 30, 2018

Scientists Want Your Help Crafting a Message to Aliens

Posted by in category: futurism

Are you up for this challenge?


Want to talk to aliens? Now’s your chance.

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Oct 30, 2018

Google Wants You to Build AI That Benefits Society

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The “AI for Social Good” contest has a prize pool of $25 million.


Okay Google, feed the hungry.

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Oct 30, 2018

Mysterious 900 MILE long ‘plume’ cloud spotted on the surface of Mars near a giant volcano

Posted by in category: space

What the hell is this?!

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Oct 30, 2018

After nine years in space 🌌

Posted by in category: space

Kepler and K2 Missions is dead. Happy Halloween!

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