According to a study released Monday in Nature Astronomy ancient blue crystals unearthed from meteorites are the key to understanding what the sun was like during it’s earliest days. Scientists removed these microscopic crystals, technically called hibonites, from the chunk of the Murchison meteorite.
These are literally tiny metallic robots capable of attacking diseases at the cellular level. It’s mind-blowing.
It’s also the result of where we are in the current technology landscape. Scientists, engineers and software specialists are coming together to solve problems that most laypeople think are impossible.
The WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases developed the guide to help boost public health by using crowdsourcing, where a group of experts and non-experts solve a problem and then share the solution with the public.
Researchers can get too close to their subject and a layman’s intuition can achieve medical breakthroughs, as World Health Organisation crowdsourcing initiatives continue to show.
https://www.undoing-aging.org/videos/nichola-conlon-presenti…aging-2018
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Space Propulsion
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“When Stars Collide” sounds like the title track of Barry Manilow’s latest album.
Unfortunately, Barry hasn’t released a single since 2012.
But astronomers did make the first definitive detection of a radioactive molecule spilled from two colliding stars. So that’s something.
Spotted with the Atacama Large Millimeter/tarubmillimeter Array (ALMA) and Northern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA) radio telescopes, the form was apparently ejected into space by the collision of two Sun-like stars.
Giants of the Deep
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