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Apr 27, 2022

Why study the biology of aging? See how hundreds of scientists at AbbVie and Calico Life Sciences are advancing research in age-related diseases like neurodegeneration and cancer

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

With an aging global population, time is of the essence to find novel targets and therapies for age-related diseases.

Apr 27, 2022

How CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing is transforming healthcare and agriculture, a decade after its discovery

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, food

Our podcast on the science and technology making the news. This week, we speak to Jennifer Doudna, the Nobel laureate who pioneered the revolutionary tool | Podcasts.

Apr 27, 2022

Invesco is launching an ETF tied to metals used in electric vehicles as prices for key materials soars

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

Money manager Invesco on Wednesday launched an exchange-traded fund aimed at providing exposure to industrial metals needed to make electric vehicles, as commodity prices have surged and the market for EVs continues to expand.

The Invesco Electric Vehicle Metals Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF began trading Wednesday under the EVMT ticker and is the first of its kind, with the non-equity fund offering investors access to key metals needed by all EV manufacturers, the company said in a press statement.

EVMT will invest in derivatives and other instruments financially linked to exposure to aluminum, cobalt, copper, iron ore, nickel, and zinc. EVMT is the “only ETF that considers metals necessary for whole car production, rather than a focus on battery production,” said Jason Bloom, head of fixed income and alternatives ETF strategy at Invesco, in the statement.

Apr 27, 2022

Edward Snowden Revealed As Key Participant In Mysterious Ceremony Creating $2 Billion Anonymous Cryptocurrency

Posted by in category: cryptocurrencies

The notorious whistle-blower acknowledges he was the sixth person who participated in an elaborate 2016 ceremony that led to the creation of zcash, a leading privacy protecting cryptocurrency now valued at $2 billion.

Apr 27, 2022

Apple tricked into releasing personal data used to sexually extort minors

Posted by in category: law enforcement

We learned last month that Apple was tricked into releasing personal data to hackers, after they posed as law enforcement officials with emergency data requests. A follow-up report reveals that some of this data was used to sexually extort minors.

The latest report also sheds light on how the hackers were able to fool Apple and other tech giants, including Facebook, Google, Snap, Twitter, and Discord …

Usually, a company will only release customer data to law enforcement officials on receipt of a court order, and even then will scrutinize the request carefully, sometimes offering to supply only part of the data requested.

Apr 27, 2022

Scientists say solar energy tops nuclear for powering crewed missions to Mars

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, solar power, space, sustainability

Apr 27, 2022

Central Texas rancher offers Elon Musk free land to move Twitter here

Posted by in category: Elon Musk

One Central Texas rancher wants Elon Musk to move his newest venture here. He’s offering his own property as bait.

Apr 27, 2022

Rocket Lab catches dummy booster with a helicopter in dramatic new video

Posted by in category: space travel

Rocket Lab aims to catch a falling booster with a helicopter for the first time ever this week, and a new video shows us how the action is supposed to go down.

Apr 27, 2022

Google Issues Warning For Billions Of Chrome Users

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

Google Chrome has been successfully hacked yet again with multiple new vulnerabilities that impact the browser across all major platforms. Here’s everything you need to know to stay safe.


New attacks have successfully hacked Google Chrome and users worldwide need to take action…

Apr 27, 2022

Anesthetic Drastically Diverts the Travels of Brain Waves

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Summary: New findings reveal how anesthesia-induced unconsciousness differs from normal sleep in relation to delta wave activity in the brain.

Source: picower institute for learning and memory.

Imagine the conscious brain as a sea roiling with the collisions and dispersals of waves of different sizes and shapes, swirling around and flowing across in many different directions. Now imagine that an ocean liner lumbers through, flattening everything that trails behind with its powerful, parting wake.