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Jan 12, 2021
A potential vaccine for multiple sclerosis
Posted by Future Timeline 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 Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes 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 Muhammad Furqan 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 Quinn Sena in categories: quantum physics, supercomputing
Circa 2020 o.o
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 Quinn Sena in categories: sustainability, transportation
Jan 12, 2021
GM shares hit record high as automaker reveals electric van and delves into flying cars
Posted by Quinn Sena 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 Alberto Lao in category: space
Jan 12, 2021
Brain Circuit That Encodes Timing of Events Identified
Posted by Genevieve Klien 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.
Jan 12, 2021
The “Last Eden?” First Human Culture Lasted 20,000 Years Longer Than Thought
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: evolution
Some 11 thousand years ago, Africa’s furthest west harbored the last populations to preserve tool-making traditions first established by the earliest members of our species.
Fieldwork led by Dr. Eleanor Scerri, head of the Pan-African Evolution Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany and Dr. Khady Niang of the University of Cheikh Anta Diop in Senegal, has documented the youngest known occurrence of the Middle Stone Age. This repertoire of stone flaking methods and the resulting tools includes distinctive ways of producing sharp flakes by carefully preparing nodules of rock, some of which were sometimes further shaped into tool forms known as ‘scrapers’ and ‘points.’ Middle Stone Age finds most commonly occur in the African record between around 300 thousand and 30 thousand years ago, after which point they largely vanish.
It was long thought that these tool types were replaced after 30 thousand years ago by a radically different, miniaturized toolkit better suited to diversified subsistence strategies and patterns of mobility across Africa. In a paper published in Scientific Reports this week, Scerri and colleagues show that groups of hunter-gatherers in what is today Senegal continued to use Middle Stone Age technologies associated with our species’ earliest prehistory as late as 11 thousand years ago. This contrasts with the long-held view that humanity’s major prehistoric cultural phases occurred in a neat and universal sequence.
