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Mar 26, 2021

Oakland to give low-income residents $500 a month, no strings attached

Posted by in categories: economics, health

The mayor of Oakland, California, on Tuesday announced a privately funded program that will give low-income families of color in the city $500 per month with no rules on how they can spend it.

The program is the latest experiment with a “guaranteed income,” the idea that giving low-income individuals a regular, monthly stipend helps ease the stresses of poverty and results in better health and upward economic mobility.”

Alan DeRossett.

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Mar 26, 2021

This High Schooler Invented Color-Changing Sutures to Detect Infection

Posted by in category: futurism

After winning a state science fair and becoming a finalist in a national competition, Dasia Taylor now has her sights set on a patent.

Mar 26, 2021

Memory transfer between snails challenges view of how brain remembers

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

LOS ANGELES — UCLA neuroscientists reported Monday that they have transferred a memory from one animal to another via injections of RNA, a startling result that challenges the widely held view of where and how memories are stored in the brain.

The finding from the lab of David Glanzman hints at the potential for new RNA-based treatments to one day restore lost memories and, if correct, could shake up the field of memory and learning.


“It’s pretty shocking,” said Dr. Todd Sacktor, a neurologist and memory researcher at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. “The big picture is we’re working out the basic alphabet of how memories are stored for the first time.” He was not involved in the research, which was published in eNeuro, the online journal of the Society for Neuroscience.

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Mar 26, 2021

The World’s Strongest Laser is About to Simulate a Supernova

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, nuclear energy

The world’s most powerful laser is scheduled for a slate of experiments next year.

The laser, in Romania, managed to fire at 10 petawatts — that’s one-tenth the power of all the sunlight that reaches Earth concentrated into a single laser beam — during a test run in March. Now, according to ExtremeTech, the scientists behind it intend to discover new high-energy cancer treatments and simulate supernovas to reveal how the stellar explosions form heavy metals.

The laser is part of the European Union’s Extreme Light Infrastructure project. The hope is that lasers will lead to new medical techniques, a better understanding of how the universe works, and improved nuclear safety.

Mar 26, 2021

How Covid-19 Jumps From Humans to Animals, Worrying Scientists

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Covid-19, a virus that many experts believe came to us from bats, has been transmitted on from humans to pets and other animals. Here’s why some scientists are worried that so-called spillbacks could potentially perpetuate a cycle of infection. Photo: Markus Scholz/Zuma Press.

Mar 26, 2021

Elon Musk tweets Tesla could become ‘the biggest company’ surpassing Apple ‘probably in a few months’ then deletes it

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

Musk’s tweet offering guidance on timing for an anticipated increase in Tesla’s market cap has since been deleted, but screenshots were widely shared on Twitter.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has clashed with Musk and Tesla over the CEO’s unfettered use of Twitter before.

In the third quarter of 2018, Musk faced securities fraud charges from the SEC after he tweeted to his tens of millions of followers then that he was planning to take Tesla private at $420 a share, and had secured funding to do so. Tesla’s stock price jumped more than 6 percent that day.

Mar 26, 2021

A Falcon 9 rocket making an uncontrolled re-entry looked like an alien armada

Posted by in category: space travel

Typically, a Falcon 9 rocket makes a more controlled return to Earth.

Mar 26, 2021

Sophia the Robot ‘self-portrait’ NFT sells for almost $700K

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, encryption, robotics/AI

A “self-portrait” by humanoid robot Sophia, who “interpreted” a depiction of her own face, has sold at auction for over $688000.


A hand-painted “self-portrait” by the world-famous humanoid robot, Sophia, has sold at auction for over $688000.

The work, which saw Sophia “interpret” a depiction of her own face, was offered as a non-fungible token, or NFT, an encrypted digital signature that has revolutionized the art market in recent months.

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Mar 26, 2021

PowerLight is hitting its targets with a power beaming system that uses lasers

Posted by in category: energy

PowerLight Technologies is turning wireless power transmission from science fiction into science fact… with frickin’ laser beams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3GKVWcBLNU


Wireless power transmission has been the stuff of science fiction for more than a century, but now PowerLight Technologies is turning it into science fact … with frickin’ laser beams.

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Mar 26, 2021

Pfizer Covid vaccine produces ‘robust’ antibody response after first dose, new study shows

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

New study looked at the effects of the vaccine on 237 healthcare workers.