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Aug 15, 2022

Look! Hubble snaps a dazzling image of the Orion Nebula’s surreal rainbow clouds

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Hubble, you’ve still got it!


A new image captures a startling star-forming region in the iconic constellation.

Aug 15, 2022

Beware! Dramatic image of spiral galaxies previews the future fate of the Milky Way

Posted by in categories: futurism, space

This could be us, but you’re taking the picture 5 billion years too early.


These two merging galaxies are locked in a cosmic death spiral similar to the one that binds us to the Andromeda Galaxy.

Aug 15, 2022

A small robot on the ISS will practice performing surgery in space

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

A surgical tool currently in clinical trials will slice fake flesh in space — providing groundbreaking new tech for space-based medical emergencies.

Aug 15, 2022

ISPs spent $235 million on lobbying and donations, “more than $320,000 a day”

Posted by in categories: government, internet, space

The biggest Internet service providers and their trade groups spent $234.7 million on lobbying and political donations during the most recent two-year congressional cycle, according to a report released yesterday. The ISPs and their trade groups lobbied against strict net neutrality rules and on various other telecom and broadband regulatory legislation, said the report written by advocacy group Common Cause.

Of the $234.7 million spent in 2019 and 2020, political contributions and expenditures accounted for $45.6 million. The rest of it went to lobbying expenditures.

Comcast led the way with $43 million in lobbying and political contributions and expenditures combined during the 2019–2020 cycle, the report said. The highest-spending ISPs after Comcast were AT&T with $36.4 million, Verizon with $24.8 million, Charter with $24.4 million, and T-Mobile with $21.5 million. “The dollar amounts are shocking,” the report said. “In total, these corporations spent more than $234 million on lobbying and federal elections during the 116th Congress—an average of more than $320,000 a day, seven days a week!”

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Aug 15, 2022

Scientists build a magnet in China that is a million times stronger than Earth’s magnetic core

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The 45.22-tesla magnet sits just shy of the record for the world’s most powerful magnet.

China started using the world’s most powerful magnet for scientific research. The magnet is roughly the size of a coin, but creates an impressive 45.22-tesla magnetic field.

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Aug 15, 2022

Artemis I: Here’s everything you need to know about NASA’s moon mission

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The momentous launch has been years in the making. NASA finally means to send its Orion capsule on its journey to the moon and back this month after a long string of delays exacerbated by concerns that the project had gone wildly over budget.

Aug 15, 2022

This stunning image shows a “golden swirl” of newly born stars in a distant galaxy

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The latest image from the ESO’s Very Large Telescope reveals a distant galaxy that is full of freshly created and highly energetic stars.

ESO has just released a new image of a distant galaxy full of baby stars.

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Aug 15, 2022

Breakthrough study creates 3D genetic map of prostate cancer like never before

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

In a new study published in Nature, researchers have developed a breakthrough technique called spatial transcriptomics, which allows scientists to map tumors non-invasively and at an unprecedented resolution depth. For the first time, researchers have created a three-dimensional map of a whole prostate to an unprecedented resolution, including areas of healthy and cancerous cells. Surprisingly, the study revealed that individual prostate tumors contain a range of genetic variations, which until this point were unknown.

“We have never had this level of resolution available before, and this new approach revealed some surprising results,” said Alastair Lamb of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, who jointly led the study.

Aug 15, 2022

Watch out Tesla: 2 German companies are teaming up to develop wireless EV charging

Posted by in categories: engineering, sustainability, transportation

The companies aim to achieve standardization in inductive charging systems.

Siemens and MAHLE have announced that the two companies signed a letter of intent.

They are teaming up to develop infrastructure and automotive engineering and to provide wireless charging to electric vehicles.

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Aug 15, 2022

Want to protect your brain from aging? Learn another language

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, neuroscience

Being bilingual slows down the negative effects of aging on the brain.

Our brains start slowing down in their once-magical abilities after a certain age.

Scientists have been finding out is that there are methods that can slow down the aging of the brain.

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