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Aug 15, 2022
Do spiders sleep? Study suggests they may snooze like humans
Posted by Nicholi Avery in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Aug 15, 2022
Look! Hubble snaps a dazzling image of the Orion Nebula’s surreal rainbow clouds
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in category: futurism
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 Atanas Atanasov 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 Atanas Atanasov 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 Omuterema Akhahenda 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
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: futurism
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.
Aug 15, 2022
Artemis I: Here’s everything you need to know about NASA’s moon mission
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: space travel
NASA/MSFC
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
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: space
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.
Aug 15, 2022
Breakthrough study creates 3D genetic map of prostate cancer like never before
Posted by Gemechu Taye 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.