Aug 12, 2020
World’s First Manned Racing Drone Does A Backflip
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: drones
Click on photo to start video.
The world’s first manned racing drone just took its first flight… Now, this is pod racing! 🙌 🤯
Page 6215
Aug 12, 2020
This Beast of a Hydrogen-Powered Hypercar Has a 1,000 Mile Range
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Aug 12, 2020
Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung volcano erupts twice in three days
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: materials
MEDAN, Indonesia — Indonesia’s rumbling Mount Sinabung erupted Monday, sending a column of volcanic materials as high as 16,400 feet into the sky and depositing ash on villages.
It is the second eruption since Saturday after the volcano sat dormant for more than a year.
Falling grit and ash accumulated up to 2 inches in already abandoned villages on the volcano’s slopes, said Armen Putra, an official at the Sinabung monitoring post on Sumatra Island.
Aug 12, 2020
A cancer mystery more than 40 years old is solved thanks to epigenetics
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
Before the first oncogene mutations were discovered in human cancer in the early 1980s, the 1970s provided the first data suggesting alterations in the genetic material of tumors. In this context, the prestigious journal Nature published in 1975 the existence of a specific alteration in the transformed cell: an RNA responsible for carrying an amino acid to build proteins (transfer RNA) was missing a piece, the enigmatic nucleotide ‘Y.’
After that outstanding observation, virtually no developments were made for forty-five years on the causes and consequences of not having the correct base in RNA.
In an article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by the group of Dr. Manel Esteller, Director of the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute, ICREA Research Professor and Professor of Genetics at the University of Barcelona has solved this mystery by observing that in cancer cells the protein that generates the nucleotide Y is epigenetically inactivated, causing small but highly aggressive tumors.
Aug 12, 2020
AIoT: When Artificial Intelligence Meets the Internet of Things
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: internet, robotics/AI
AI is emerging as a driving technology behind the internet of things (IoT). Learn about the new AIoT, and how it will impact the future.
Aug 12, 2020
Satellite Image Shows Pakistani Submarine With Chinese Navy
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: military
The Pakistani Navy recently parked one of its most advanced submarines in the middle of Chinese warships visiting Karachi. This is significant and cannot be viewed as coincidental.
Aug 12, 2020
Scientists: Martian Lava Tubes Large Enough to Fit Planetary Base
Posted by Fyodor Rouge in category: space
Lava Tubes!!
District 13
Despite their larger size, the researchers believe that the lava tubes are surprisingly stable, meaning settlers wouldn’t have to worry about them collapsing around them.
Continue reading “Scientists: Martian Lava Tubes Large Enough to Fit Planetary Base” »
Aug 12, 2020
Scientists Had to Rename Genes Because They Confused Microsoft Excel
Posted by Fyodor Rouge in category: transportation
Aug 12, 2020
Vampire Bats Are Making Feral Hogs a Breeding Ground for Disease
Posted by Fyodor Rouge in category: biotech/medical
Populations of vampire bats are exploding and spreading deadly diseases.
Check out VICE News for more: http://vicenews.com
Follow VICE News here:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vicenews
Twitter: https://twitter.com/vicenews
Tumblr: http://vicenews.tumblr.com/
Instagram: http://instagram.com/vicenews
More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo
Aug 12, 2020
Weird ‘boomerang’ earthquake detected under the Atlantic Ocean
Posted by Fyodor Rouge in categories: futurism, physics
This magnitude 7.1 earthquake started deep underground, in a gash on the Atlantic seafloor, a little more than 650 miles off the coast of Liberia, in western Africa. It rushed eastward and upward, then did an about-face and boomeranged back along the upper section of the fault at incredible speeds‑so fast it caused the geologic version of a sonic boom.
The ferocity of shaking from an earthquake is usually focused in the direction the temblor is traveling. But a boomerang quake, or a “back-propagating rupture” in scientific terms, may spread the intense shaking across a wider zone. It remains uncertain how common boomerang earthquakes are—and how many travel at such great speeds. But the new study, published today in the journal Nature Geoscience, is a major step toward untangling the complex physics behind these events and understanding their potential hazards.
“Studies like this help us understand how past earthquakes ruptured, how future earthquakes may rupture, and how that relates to the potential impact for faults near populated areas,” says Kasey Aderhold, a seismologist with the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, via email.
