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Jul 7, 2020

Scientists in China reused identical scientific images in more than 120 medical research papers, which ended up in international journals, report says

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The papers appear to feature the same pictures as others, raising doubts about the checks on scientific research, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Jul 6, 2020

Germany’s Supercavitating Torpedoes: The Super Weapon the U.S. Navy Doesn’t Have

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And America’s can’t compete.

Jul 6, 2020

Why China’s Race For AI Dominance Depends On Math

Posted by in categories: economics, education, employment, government, mathematics, robotics/AI, surveillance

The best way to prevent this is by focusing on the basics. America needs a major all-of-society push to increase the number of U.S. students being trained in both the fundamentals of math and in the more advanced, rigorous, and creative mathematics. Leadership in implementing this effort will have to come from the U.S. government and leading technology companies, and through the funding of ambitious programs. A few ideas come to mind: talent-spotting schemes, the establishment of math centers, and a modern successor to the post-Sputnik National Defense Education Act, which would provide math scholarships to promising students along with guaranteed employment in either public or private enterprises.


Forget about “AI” itself: it’s all about the math, and America is failing to train enough citizens in the right kinds of mathematics to remain dominant.

By Michael Auslin

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Jul 6, 2020

Chinese city issues epidemic warnings for the PLAGUE

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Authorities in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia have issued an early epidemic warning after a resident contracted bubonic plague.

Bubonic plague, known as the ‘Black Death’ in the Middle Ages, is one of the most devastating diseases in history, having killed around 100million people in the 14th century.

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Jul 6, 2020

Photo of human-sized bat in the Philippines baffles social media users

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An old photo of a human-sized bat in the Philippines has resurfaced on Twitter, puzzling social media users.

On June 24, a Twitter user with the handle @AlexJoestar622 shared an image of a giant golden-crowned flying fox hanging from a wire attached to the roof of a building.

“Remember when I told y’all about the Philippines having human-sized bats?” the user asked. “Yeah, this was what I was talking about.”

Jul 6, 2020

NASA Missions in the Month of July

Posted by in category: space travel

👨‍🚀 🌔 A historic first on the Moon 🛰️ 🪐 Spacecraft arrivals at Jupiter and Saturn 🚀 🔴 Mars launches and landings.

Space exploration doesn’t take a summer break! A look at NASA History milestones from the month of July:

Jul 6, 2020

SpaceX on Facebook Watch

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“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”

Elon musk from failures to success!

Jul 6, 2020

SpaceX Starship: incredible Falcon 9 comparison shows why fans are excited

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The Starship, SpaceX’s giant ship destined for the moon and Mars, overshadows its Falcon 9 predecessor in more ways than one.

Jul 6, 2020

Napa-raised astronaut Kate Rubins prepares for return to International Space Station in October

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, materials

Kate Rubins, the first Napa native to go to space, is entering the final three months of preparation for her return trip to the International Space Station where she served four years ago.

Starting Oct. 14 and continuing for about six months, her schedule will be replete with scientific work 250 miles above the Earth, dealing with materials ranging from supercold gases to stem cells. And unlike during her first stay in 2016, Rubins expects to get to work quickly, without the awkward introduction to moving about in microgravity.

“As a rookie you’re not so good at navigating and flying through the space station, so you tend to crawl hand over hand on the handrails,” the biochemist-turned-space traveler quipped during a NASA news conference last week in Houston, while recalling her original 115-day stint aboard the orbiting space platform.

Jul 6, 2020

Study tests whether AI can convincingly answer existential questions

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, ethics, robotics/AI

A new study has explored whether AI can provide more attractive answers to humanity’s most profound questions than history’s most influential thinkers.

Researchers from the University of New South Wales first fed a series of moral questions to Salesforce’s CTRL system, a text generator trained on millions of documents and websites, including all of Wikipedia. They added its responses to a collection of reflections from the likes of Plato, Jesus Christ, and, err, Elon Musk.

The team then asked more than 1,000 people which musings they liked best — and whether they could identify the source of the quotes.