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Dec 3, 2020

Oral drug blocks SARS-CoV-2 transmission

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Sounds important.


Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection with a new antiviral drug, MK-4482/EIDD-2801 or Molnupiravir, completely suppresses virus transmission within 24 hours, researchers in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University have discovered.

The group led by Dr. Richard Plemper, Distinguished University Professor at Georgia State, originally discovered that the drug is potent against .

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Dec 3, 2020

Glucosamine may reduce overall death rates as effectively as regular exercise, study suggests

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, sex

After controlling for various factors — such as participants’ age, sex, smoking status and activity level — the researchers found that taking glucosamine/chondroitin every day for a year or longer was associated with a 39 percent reduction in all-cause mortality.

It was also linked to a 65 percent reduction in cardiovascular-related deaths. That’s a category that includes deaths from stroke, coronary artery disease and heart disease, the United States’ biggest killer.” “He explains that because this is an epidemiological study — rather than a clinical trial — it doesn’t offer definitive proof that glucosamine/chondroitin makes death less likely. But he does call the results “encouraging.””.


Glucosamine supplements may reduce overall mortality about as well as regular exercise does, according to a new epidemiological study from West Virginia University.

“Does this mean that if you get off work at five o’clock one day, you should just skip the gym, take a glucosamine pill and go home instead?” said Dana King, professor and chair of the Department of Family Medicine, who led the study. “That’s not what we suggest. Keep exercising, but the thought that taking a pill would also be beneficial is intriguing.”

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Dec 3, 2020

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Posted by in category: futurism

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Dec 3, 2020

Hackers try to penetrate the vital ‘cold chain’ for coronavirus vaccines, security team reports

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, security

IBM security researchers said the “precision targeting of executives and key global organizations hold the potential hallmarks of a nation-state tradecraft.”

Dec 3, 2020

How to ‘future proof’ your petrol car with an electric conversion kit

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

One Dutch-Irish company is leading the way towards greener roads, by selling cheap electric conversion kits for existing petrol or diesel cars.

Drivers will be able to cut their carbon footprints by trading in an old car running on fossil fuel and turning it into a functioning, battery-operated electric vehicle.

Based just south of Dublin, New Electric claims to be able to “future proof” cars for years to come, no matter the brand, the desired speed, or torque. Its mission is to take good quality cars that may have been sent to the scrap heap and revamp them by installing batteries.

Dec 3, 2020

Camouflage Skin Developed That Provides On-Demand Cloaking in Both Daylight and Night

Posted by in category: cyborgs

Thermally controlled, active imperceptible artificial skin in visible-to-infrared range.

Cephalopods’ exceptional ability to hide into any background has inspired researchers to replicate their fascinating ability to camouflage in the infrared (IR) and visible spectrum. Recent advances offered a number of physical mechanisms to reproduce the cloaking functionalities of cephalopods. However, most of works focused on either camouflaging in the visible or IR camouflage range only: not dual modes in a single device structure that can readily switch between the visible and IR mode according to a suitable situation.

Recently, Prof. Seung hwan Ko’s group in Seoul National University in Republic of Korea demonstrated the visible-to-IR active ands camouflage skin that provides an on-demand cloaking platform both in daylight and at night with a single input variable: Temperature (T). The soft thermoelectric device that is capable of active cooling and heating serves as a backbone structure to fine-tune the surface of each pixel and thereby enables thermal camouflage in the IR range by matching the ambient temperature. The Ko’s group further extended the camouflage range to the IR-to-visible spectrum by incorporating thermochromic liquid crystal at the surface that changes light reflectance ® based on the device temperature, enabling the expressing a variety of colors by controling temperature. The camouflage system as a whole encompasses the two independent spectrums into a ‘full spectrum’ with a single soft structure by controlling temperature.

Dec 3, 2020

Subaru electric crossover: How it could take form in 2021

Posted by in category: futurism

The product of a joint development venture with Toyota could arrive in prototype form as soon as late 2021 and would represent some firsts for Subaru.

Dec 3, 2020

How Salt Water Could Fuel a Mars Mission

Posted by in categories: innovation, space travel

A new invention that may speed up a human mission to Mars.


A new invention might speed up human exploration of the Red Planet.

Dec 3, 2020

Young adults with physical disabilities find independence

Posted by in category: futurism

Champions Place is the first shared living community for young adults in Roswell, Georgia. Designed with and for people with disabilities. In addition to providing community living, Champions Place provides year-round volunteer engagements, community outreach, and social activities through programs such as the Titan Community, a wheelchair sports team. With the help of Google assistive technology, Champions residents can live more independently in their new home. Learn more about Champions Place at championscommunityfoundation.org.

About Champions Place: http://www.championscommunityfoundation.org/championsplace.
About Titan Community: http://www.championscommunityfoundation.org/titans-what-we-do.

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Dec 3, 2020

Scientists invent technology that can extract oxygen and fuel from Mars’ salty water in huge step forward to colonising Red Planet

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, space travel

Space exploration company SpaceX’s founder and chief executive officer Elon Musk on Tuesday said he expected humans to land on Mars in six years. He also said that SpaceX plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft and land on Mars in two years, with a chance of the first human landing on Mars in four years instead of six.

United States’ space agency NASA’s Perseverance rover which was launched in July 2020 is scheduled to land at Jezero Crater on Mars on 18 February 2021. It will look at signs of ancient life and collect rock and soil samples for a possible return to Earth.

It is carrying instruments that will use high-temperature electrolysis but the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) will be producing oxygen only, from the carbon dioxide in the air.