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Dec 5, 2020

Mexican Senate Passes Bill To Legalize Marijuana Nationwide

Posted by in categories: government, law

Mexico’s Senate approved a bill to legalize marijuana nationally on Thursday.

Before it can become law it must also be passed by the other body of the country’s Congress, the Chamber of Deputies.

The legislation, which was circulated in draft form earlier this month, would establish a regulated cannabis market in Mexico, allowing adults 18 and older to purchase and possess up to 28 grams of marijuana and cultivate up to six plants for personal use.

Dec 5, 2020

Earth’s inner core is doing something weird

Posted by in category: futurism

Data from old Soviet weapons tests are helping scientists get a high-resolution look inside our planet.

Dec 5, 2020

JAXA’s Hayabusa2 asteroid sample return capsule lands in Australia

Posted by in categories: materials, space

Hayabusa2’s sample return capsule has landed in Woomera, Australia, today, 5 December — or 6 December local time at Woomera. The exact landing location is now being determined, but a tweet from the mission’s official account says an estimated location of landing has been identified and teams are en route to recover it.

The craft returned not just asteroid surface material, but subsurface material (at first) as well, and will be met by Japanese scientists after completing its six-year mission to the asteroid 162173 Ryugu.

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Dec 5, 2020

Drug Reverses Age-Related Mental Decline Within Days

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

Just a few doses of an experimental drug can reverse age-related declines in memory and mental flexibility in mice, according to a new study by UC San Francisco scientists. The drug, called ISRIB, has already been shown in laboratory studies to restore memory function months after traumatic brain injury (TBI), reverse cognitive impairments in Down Syndrome, prevent noise-related hearing loss, fight certain types of prostate cancer, and even enhance cognition in healthy animals.

In the new study, published Dec. 1, 2020, in the open-access journal eLife, researchers showed rapid restoration of youthful cognitive abilities in aged mice, accompanied by a rejuvenation of brain and immune cells that could help explain improvements in brain function.

“ISRIB’s extremely rapid effects show for the first time that a significant component of age-related cognitive losses may be caused by a kind of reversible physiological “blockage” rather than more permanent degradation,” said Susanna Rosi, PhD, Lewis and Ruth Cozen Chair II and professor in the departments of Neurological Surgery and of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science.

Dec 5, 2020

Northeast braces for first significant snowstorm of the winter from possible ‘bomb cyclone’

Posted by in category: climatology

Some areas west of Interstate 95 could see double-digit snowfall totals and power outages.

Dec 5, 2020

Why Bitcoin will Overtake the Dollar | The Fall of the Dollar

Posted by in category: bitcoin

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about the impending collapse of the dollar and the rise of Bitcoin. Unfortunately, today I am here to confirm that much of this talk is accurate.

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Dec 5, 2020

96K Californians could experience another round of PG&E shutoffs

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Pacific Gas and Electric said it may soon implement another round of Public Safety Power Shutoffs due to forecast high winds.

The latest shutoff would impact about 96,191 customers in 16 counties.

Dec 5, 2020

INeuraLS — Advanced NeuroTech For Rapid Knowledge and Skill Acquisition — US AirForce Research Labs

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, computing, military, neuroscience

Ineurals — advanced neuro-technologies for rapid learning and skill acquisition.


The 711th Human Performance Wing, under the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory leads the development, integration, and delivery of Airman-centric research, education, and consultation enabling the U.S. Air Force to achieve responsive and effective global vigilance, global reach, and global power now and in the future. It’s comprised of the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine and the Airman Systems Directorate, whose science and technology competencies include Training, Adaptive Warfighter Interfaces, Bioeffects, Bioengineering, and Aerospace and Operational Medicine.

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Dec 5, 2020

Thread That Can Explore The Brain

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

MIT engineers designed a magnetic thread that will snake its way through your brain’s blood vessels.

Dec 5, 2020

‘We’re Almost There’: Polis Expects 1st COVID-19 Vaccine Doses As Soon As Next Week

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

At-risk Coloradans might get the first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine as soon as next week.

In an interview with Colorado Matters on Friday, Gov. Jared Polis said the Pfizer vaccine would be made available first, followed a few weeks later by the Moderna vaccine. Both vaccines require two doses with 30 days in between.

“We are only hopefully a week away from the first highly effective vaccine arriving at our state,” he said. “And I would encourage anybody just to look at the data on the efficacy of this vaccine — 90 percent, 94 percent, there’s two of them.”