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Jan 12, 2021

Arriving on Mars

Posted by in category: space

February 18 — We revisit the red planet with a new rover.

Jan 12, 2021

10 Amazing Facts About Elon Musk You Probably Didn’t Know

Posted by in category: Elon Musk

Jan 12, 2021

A potential vaccine for multiple sclerosis

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

(MS) has been announced by a collaboration including BioNTech, with a study in mice showing great promise for improving symptoms and stopping disease progression.

Jan 12, 2021

Here’s How Humans Have Evolved In the Last 100 Years

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, evolution, space

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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about some of the recent discoveries in regards to our own evolution in the last 250 years.
Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.

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Jan 12, 2021

Australian man arrested and accused of running world’s largest darknet site

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

ABC News: German authorities accuse Australian man of running DarkMarket, the world’s largest illegal online marketplace.


An Australian is allegedly at the centre of what German authorities believe was the biggest illegal marketplace on the darknet where more than $220 million was transacted over sales of drugs, forged money, SIM cards and bogus credit cards.

Jan 12, 2021

Chinese quantum computer completes 2.5-billion-year task in minutes

Posted by in categories: quantum physics, supercomputing

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Researchers in China claim to have achieved quantum supremacy, the point where a quantum computer completes a task that would be virtually impossible for a classical computer to perform. The device, named Jiuzhang, reportedly conducted a calculation in 200 seconds that would take a regular supercomputer a staggering 2.5 billion years to complete.

Traditional computers process data as binary bits – either a zero or a one. Quantum computers, on the other hand, have a distinct advantage in that their bits can also be both a one and a zero at the same time. That raises the potential processing power exponentially, as two quantum bits (qubits) can be in four possible states, three qubits can be in eight states, and so on.

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Jan 12, 2021

2020 Harley-Davidson LiveWire Electric Motorcycle Test Ride And Review: H-D 2.0

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

The first electric Harley is finally ready – but who is it for?

Jan 12, 2021

GM shares hit record high as automaker reveals electric van and delves into flying cars

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, sustainability, transportation

The potential foray into “personal air mobility” was announced as part of Cadillac’s portfolio of luxury and EV vehicles. It included an autonomous shuttle and an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, or more commonly known as a flying car or air taxi.

Michael Simcoe, vice president of GM global design, said each concept reflected “the needs and wants of the passengers at a particular moment in time and GM’s vision of the future of transportation.”

“This is a special moment for General Motors as we reimagine the future of personal transportation for the next five years and beyond,” Simcoe said.

Jan 12, 2021

NASA’s Plan to Stop an Asteroid Headed for Earth

Posted by in category: space

Inside the research lab that’s testing the tech to deflect an asteroid headed for earth.

Jan 12, 2021

Brain Circuit That Encodes Timing of Events Identified

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Summary: Pyramidal cells in the CA2 region of the hippocampus are responsible for storing critical timing information.

Source: MIT

When we experience a new event, our brain records a memory of not only what happened, but also the context, including the time and location of the event. A new study from MIT neuroscientists sheds light on how the timing of a memory is encoded in the hippocampus, and suggests that time and space are encoded separately.